Emily Dickinson Lexicon

STEP'-BROTH-ER, n.

A brother-in-law, or by marriage.

STEP'-CHILD, n. [step and child.]

A son-in-law or daughter-in-law, [a child deprived of its parent.]

STEP'-DAME, n.

A mother by marriage, [the mother of an orphan or one deprived.]

STEP'-DAUGH-TER, n.

A daughter by marriage, [an orphan daughter.]

STEP'-FA-THER, n.

A father-in-law; a father by marriage only; [the father of an orphan.]

STEP'-MOTH-ER, n.

A mother by marriage only; a mother-in-law; [the mother of an orphan.]

STEP'PED, pp.

Set; placed; erected; fixed in the keel, as mast.

STEP'PING, n.

The act of walking or running by steps.

STEP'PING, ppr.

Moving, or advancing by a movement of the foot or feet; placing; fixing or erecting, as a mast.

STEP'PING-STONE, n.

A stone to raise the feet above the dirt and mud in walking. – Swift.

STEP'-SIS-TER, n.

A sister-in-law, or by marriage, [an orphan sister.]

STEP'-SON, n.

A son-in-law, [an orphan son.]

STEP'-STONE, n.

A stone laid before a door as a stair to rise on in entering the house.

STER, n. [in composition, is from the Sax. steora, a director. See Steer.]

It seems primarily to have signified chief, principal or director, as in the L. minister, chief servant; but in other words, as in spinster, we do not recognize the sense of chief, but merely that of a person who carries on the business of spinning.

STER-CO-RA'CEOUS, a. [L. stercoreus, stercorosus, from stercus, dung.]

Pertaining to dung, or partaking of its nature. – Arbuthnot.

STER-CO-RA'RI-AN, or STER'CO-RA-NIST, n. [L. stercus, dung.]

One in the Romish church who held that the host is liable to digestion. – Encyc.

STER'CO-RA-RY, n.

A place properly secured from the weather for containing dung.

STER-CO-RA'TION, n. [L. stercoratio.]

The act of manuring with dung. – Bacon. Ray.

STER-CO'RI-AN-ISM, n.

In church history, the doctrine that the host is liable to digestion.

STERE, n.

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

STE-RE-O-GRAH'PIC, or STE-RE-O-GRAPH'IC-AL, a. [from stereograpby.]

Made or done according to the rules of stereography; delineated on a plane; as, a stereo-graphic chart of the earth.

STE-RE-O-GRAPH'IC-AL-LY, adv.

by delineation on a plane.

STE-RE-OG'RA-PHY, n. [Gr. στερεος, firm, and γραφω, 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 solids which are regularly defined. – Encyc.

STE-RE-OM'E-TER, n. [Gr. στερεος, solid, and μετρον.]

An instrument for determining the specific gravity of liquid bodies, porous bodies, and powders, as well as solids. – Encyc. Brit.

STE-RE-O-MET'RIC-AL, a. [See Stereometry.]

Pertaining to or performed by stereometry.