Webster's Dictionary 1828

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STERCORANIST

STERCORARIAN, STERCORANIST noun [Latin, dung.] One in the Romish church who held that the host is liable to digestion.

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STERCORARIAN

STERCORARIAN, STERCORANIST, noun [Latin, dung.] One in the Romish church who held that the host is liable to digestion.

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STERCORARY

STERCORARY, noun A place properly secured from the weather for containing dung.

4621

STERCORATION

STERCORATION, noun [Latin] The act of manuring with dung.

4622

STERE

STERE, noun In the new French system of measures, the unit for solid measure, equal to a cubic meter.

4623

STEREOGRAPHIC

STEREOGRAPHIC, STEREOGRAPHICAL, adjective [from stereography.] Made or done according to the rules of stereography; delineated on a plane; as a stereographic chart of the earth.

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STEREOGRAPHICAL

STEREOGRAPHIC, STEREOGRAPHICAL adjective [from stereography.] Made or done according to the rules of stereography; delineated on a plane; as a stereographic chart of the earth.

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STEREOGRAPHICALLY

STEREOGRAPHICALLY, adverb By delineation on plane.

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STEREOGRAPHY

STEREOGRAPHY, noun [Gr., firm; to write.] The act or art of delineating the forms of solid bodies on a plane; a branch of solid geometry which shows the construction of all soli...

4627

STEREOMETRICAL

STEREOMETRICAL, adjective [See Stereometry.] Pertaining to or performed by stereometry.

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STEREOMETRY

STEREOMETRY, noun [Gr., firm, fixed; to measure.] The art of measuring solid bodies, and finding their solid content.

4629

STEREOTOMICAL

STEREOTOMICAL, adjective Pertaining to or performed by stereotomy.

4630

STEREOTOMY

STEREOTOMY, noun [Gr., fixed; to cut.] The science or art of cutting solids into certain figures or sections, as arches, etc.

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STEREOTYPE

STEREOTYPE, noun [Gr., fixed; type, form.]1. Literally, a fixed metal type; hence, a plate of fixed or solid metallic types for printing books. Thus we say, a book is printed on...

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STEREOTYPER

STEREOTYPER, noun One who makes stereotype.

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STEREOTYPING

STEREOTYPING, participle present tense Making stereotype plates for any work; or impressing copies on stereotype plates.

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STEREOTYPOGRAPHER

STEREOTYPOGRAPHER, noun A stereo-type printer.

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STEREOTYPOGRAPHY

STEREOTYPOGRAPHY, noun The art or practice of printing on stereotype.

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STERIL

STERIL, STERILE, adjective [Latin]

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STERILE

STERIL, STERILE adjective [Latin]1. Barren; unfruitful; not fertile; producing little or no crop; as STERILE land; a STERILE desert; a STERILE year.2. Barren; producing no young...

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STERILITY

STERILITY, noun [Latin]1. Barrenness; unproductiveness; unfruitfulness; the quality or state of producing little or nothing; as the sterility of land or soil.2. Barrenness; unfr...

4639

STERILIZE

STERILIZE, verb transitive1. To make barren; to impoverish, as land; to exhaust of fertility; as, to sterilize soil or land. [Little used.]2. To deprive of fecundity, or the pow...

4640

STERLET

STERLET, noun A fish of the Caspian and of the rivers in Russia, the Acipenser ruthenus of Linne, highly esteemed for its flavor, and from whose roe is made the finest caviare.

4641

STERLING

STERLING, adjective [probably from Easterling.]1. An epithet by which English money of account is distinguished; as a pound sterling; a shilling sterling; a penny sterling It is...

4642

STERN

STERN, adjective [G., staring; stubborn. See Stare, Starck, Stark, with which this word is probably connected.]1. Severe; austere; fixed with an aspect of severity and authority...

4643

STERN-BOARD

STERN-BOARD, noun [stern and board.] In seamens language, a loss of way in making a tack. To make a stern-board is when by a current or other cause, a vessel has fallen back fro...

4644

STERN-CHASE

STERN-CHASE, noun [stern and chase.] A cannon placed in a ships stern, pointing backward and intended to annoy a ship that is in pursuit of her.