Dictionary: STEG-A-NOG'RA-PHIST – STEM

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STEG-A-NOG'RA-PHIST, n. [Gr. στεγανος, secret, and γραφω, to write.]

One who practices the art of writing in cipher. – Bailey.

STEG-A-NOG'RA-PHY, n. [supra.]

The art of writing in ciphers or characters which are not intelligible, except to the persons who correspond with each other. – Bailey.

STEG'AN-O-PODES, n.

A family of swimming birds with the four toes connected by the same web.

STEG-NOT'IC, a. [Gr. στεγνωτικος.]

Tending to render costive; or to diminish excretions or discharges generally.

STEG-NOT'IC, n.

A medicine which tends to produce costiveness; one that diminishes excretions or discharges generally.

STEIN-HEIL-ITE, n.

A mineral, a variety of iolite. – Cleaveland.

STE'LA, n. [Gr. στηλη.]

In architecture, a small column without base or capital.

STELE, n.

A stale or handle; a stalk. [Obs.]

STEL'E-CHITE, n.

A fine kind of storax, in larger pieces than the calamite. – Cyc.

STEL'ENE, a. [Gr. στηλη, a column.]

– Columnar.

STEL'LAR, or STEL'LA-RY, a. [It. stellare; L. stellaris, from stella, a star.]

  1. Pertaining to stars; astral; as, stellar virtue; stellar figure. – Milton. Glanville.
  2. Starry; full of stars; set with stars; as, stellary regions.

STEL'LATE, or STEL'LA-TED, a. [L. stellatus.]

  1. Resembling a star; radiated.
  2. In botany, stellate or verticillate leaves are when more leaves than two surround the stern in a whorl, or when they radiate like the spokes of a wheel, or like a star. A stellate bristle is when a little star of smaller hairs is affixed to the end; applied also to the stigma. A stellate flower is a radiate flower. – Martyn.

STEL-LA'TION, n. [L. stella, a star.]

Radiation of light. [Not in use.]

STEL'LED, a.

Starry. [Not in use.] – Shak.

STEL'LER-I-DAN, n.

An herbivorous cetaceous animal found in the northern part of the Pacific ocean, Stellerus borealis.

STEL-LIF'ER-OUS, a. [L. stella, a star, and fero, to produce.]

Having or abounding with stars.

STEL'LI-FORM, a. [L. stella, star, and form.]

Like a star; radiated.

STEL'LI-FY, v.t.

To turn into a star. [Not in use.] – Chaucer.

STEL'LION, n. [L. stellio.]

A newt. Ainsworth.

STEL'LION-ATE, n. [Fr. stellionat a cheating; Low L. stellionatus.]

In law, the crime of selling a thing deceitfully for what it is not, as to sell that for one's own which belongs to another. [Not in use.] – Bacon.

STEL'LITE, n. [L. stella, a star.]

A name given by some writers to a white stone found on Mount Libanus, containing the lineaments of the star-fish. – Cyc.

STEL'O-CHITE, n.

A name given to the osteocolleye.

STEL-OG'RA-PHY, n. [Gr. στηλογραφια; στηλος, a pillar, and γραφω, to write.]

The art of writing or inscribing characters on pillars. – Stackhouse.

STEM, n.1 [Sax. stemn; G. stamm, stock, stem, race; D. and Sw. stam; Dan. stamme; Sans. stamma. The Latin has stemma, in the sense of the stock of a family or race. The primary sense is to set, to fix.]

  1. The principal body of a tree, shrub or plant of any kind; the main stock; the firm part which supports the branches. After they are shot up thirty feet in length, they spread a very large top, having no bough or twig on the stem. – Ralegh. The low'ring spring with lavish rain, / Beats down the slender stem and bearded grain. – Dryden.
  2. The peduncle of the fructification, or the pedicle of a flower; that which supports the flower or the fruit of a plant; the petiole or leaf-steam.
  3. The stock of a family; a race or generation of progenitors; as, a noble stern. – Milton. Learn well their lineage and their ancient stem. – Tickel.
  4. Progeny; branch of a family. This is a stem / Of that victorious stock. – Shak.
  5. In a ship, a circular piece of timber, to which the two sides of a ship are united at the fore end. The lower end of it is scarfed to the keel, and the bowsprit rests upon its upper end. [D. semen.] – Mar. Dict. From stem to stern, is from one end of the ship to the other, or through the whole length.

STEM, n.2

In music, the short perpendicular line added to a note.