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- English Word Sternness Definition The quality or state of being stern.
- English Word Sterno- Definition A combining form used in anatomy to indicate connection with, or relation to, the sternum; as, sternocostal, sternoscapular.
- English Word Sternocoracoid Definition Of or pertaining to the sternum and the coracoid.
- English Word Sternocostal Definition Of or pertaining to the sternum and the ribs; as, the sternocostal cartilages.
- English Word Sternohyoid Definition Of or pertaining to the sternum and the hyoid bone or cartilage.
- English Word Sternomastoid Definition Of or pertaining to the sternum and the mastoid process.
- English Word Sternothyroid Definition Of or pertaining to the sternum and the thyroid cartilage.
- English Word Sternpost Definition A straight piece of timber, or an iron bar or beam, erected on the extremity of the keel to support the rudder, and receive the ends of the planks or plates of the vessel.
- English Word Sternsman Definition A steersman.
- English Word Sternson Definition The end of a ship's keelson, to which the sternpost is bolted; -- called also stern knee.
- English Word Sternum Definition A plate of cartilage, or a series of bony or cartilaginous plates or segments, in the median line of the pectoral skeleton of most vertebrates above fishes; the breastbone.
- English Word Sternum Definition The ventral part of any one of the somites of an arthropod.
- English Word Sternums Definition of Sternum
- English Word Sternutation Definition The act of sneezing.
- English Word Sternutative Definition Having the quality of provoking to sneeze.
- English Word Sternutatory Definition Sternutative.
- English Word Sternutatory Definition A sternutatory substance or medicine.
- English Word Sternway Definition The movement of a ship backward, or with her stern foremost.
- English Word Sterquilinous Definition Pertaining to a dunghill; hence, mean; dirty; paltry.
- English Word Sterre Definition A star.
- English Word Sterrink Definition The crab-eating seal (Lobodon carcinophaga) of the Antarctic Ocean.
- English Word Sterrometal Definition Any alloy of copper, zinc, tin, and iron, of which cannon are sometimes made.
- English Word Stert Definition Started.
- English Word Sterte Definition p. p. of Start.
- English Word Stertorious Definition Stertorous.
- English Word Stertorous Definition Characterized by a deep snoring, which accompaines inspiration in some diseases, especially apoplexy; hence, hoarsely breathing; snoring.
- English Word Sterve Definition To die, or cause to die; to perish. See Starve.
- English Word Stet Definition Let it stand; -- a word used by proof readers to signify that something once erased, or marked for omission, is to remain.
- English Word Stet Definition To cause or direct to remain after having been marked for omission; to mark with the word stet, or with a series of dots below or beside the matter; as, the proof reader stetted a deled footnote.
- English Word Stethal Definition One of the higher alcohols of the methane series, homologous with ethal, and found in small quantities as an ethereal salt of stearic acid in spermaceti.