Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Dictionary: STE-RE-OM'E-TRY – STERN'-FRAME
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STE-RE-OM'E-TRY, n. [Gr. στερεος, firm, fixed, and μετρεω, to measure.]
The art of measuring solid bodies, and finding their solid content. – Harris.
Pertaining to or performed by stereotomy.
STE-RE-OT'O-MY, n. [Gr. στερεος, fixed, and τεμυω, to cut.]
The science or art of cutting solids into certain figures or sections, as arches, &c. – Encyc.
STE'RE-O-TYPE, a.
- Pertaining to fixed metallic types.
- Done on fixed metallic types, or plates of fixed types; as stereotype work; stereotype printing; a stereotype copy of the Bible.
STE'RE-O-TYPE, n. [Gr. στερεος, fixed, and τυπος, type, form.]
- Literally, a fixed metal type; hence, a plate of fixed solid metallic types for printing books. Thus, we say, a book is printed on stereotype, or in stereotype. In the latter use, the word seems rather to signify the workmanship or manner of printing, than the plate.
- The art of making plates of fixed metallic types, or of executing work on such plates.
STE'RE-O-TYPE, v.t.
To make fixed metallic types or plates of type metal, corresponding with the words and letters of a book; to compose a book in fixed types; as, to stereotype the New Testament; certain societies have stereotyped the Bible.
STE'RE-O-TYP-ER, n.
One who makes stereotype.
STE'RE-O-TYP-ING, ppr.
Making stereotype plates for any work; or impressing copies on stereotype plates.
A stereotype printer.
The art or practice of printing on stereotype. – Entick.
STER'IL, or STER'ILE, a. [L. sterilis; It. and Fr. sterile; Sp. esteril.]
- Barren; unfruitful; not fertile; producing little or no crop; as, sterile land; a sterile desert; a sterile year. – Bacon.
- Barren; producing no young. – More.
- Barren of ideas; destitute of sentiment; as, a sterile production or author. Sterile flower, in botany, is a term given by Tournefort the male flower, or that which bears only stamens. – Martyn.
STE-RIL'I-TY, n. [L. sterilitas; Fr. sterilité; It. sterilità.]
- Barrenness; unproductiveness; unfruitfulness; the quality or state of producing little or nothing; as, the sterility land or soil. – Bacon.
- Barrenness; unfruitfulness; the state of not producing young; as of animals.
- Barrenness of ideas or sentiments, as in writings.
- Want of fertility or the power of producing sentiment as, the sterility of an author or of his mind.
STER'IL-IZE, v.t.
- To make barren; to impoverish, land; exhaust of fertility; as, to sterilize soil or land. [Little used.] – Woodward.
- To deprive of fecundity, or the power of producing young. [Little used.]
STER'LET, n.
A fish of the Caspian and of the rivers Russia, its Acipenser ruthenus of Linnæus, highly esteemed for its flavor, and from whose roe is made the finest caviare. – Tooke. Coxe.
STER'LING, a. [probably from Easterling.]
- An epithet by which English money of account is distinguished; as, pound sterling; a shilling sterling; penny sterling. It not now applied to the coins of England; but sterling cost, sterling value are used.
- Genuine; pure; of excellent quality; as, a work of sterling merit; a man of sterling wit or good sense.
STER'LING, n.
- English money. And Roman wealth in English sterling view. – Arbuthnot. [In this use, sterling may signify English coins.]
- Standard; rate. [Little used in either sense.]
STERN, a. [Sax. styrn, stern; G. starr, staring; störrig, stubborn. See Stare, Starch, Stark, with which this word is probably connected. Gr. στερεος.]
- Severe; austere; fixed with an aspect of severity and authority; as, a stern look; a stern countenance; a stern frown. I would outstare the sternest eyes that look. – Shak.
- Severe of manner; rigid; harsh; cruel. Stern as tutors, and as uncles hard. – Dryden. Ambition should be made of sterner stuff. – Shak.
- Hard; afflictive. If wolves had at thy gate howl'd that stern time. – Shak.
- Rigidly steadfast; immovable. Stern virtue is the growth of few soils. – Hamilton.
STERN, n. [Sax. steor and ern, place; the steer-place, that is, helm-place.]
- The hind part of a ship or other vessel, or of a boat; the part opposite to the stem or prow. This part of a ship is terminated by the tafferel above, and by the counters below. – Mar. Dict.
- Post of management; direction. And sit at chiefest stern of public weal. – Shak. [Not in use. We now say, to sit at the helm.]
- The hinder part of any thing. [Not elegant.] Spenser. By the stern, is a phrase which denotes that a ship is more deeply laden abaft than forward.
STERN'AGE, n.
Steerage or stern. – Shak.
STERN'-BOARD, n. [stern and board.]
In seamen's 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 from the point she bad gained in the last tack. – Mar. Dict.
STERN'-CHASE, n. [stern and chase.]
A cannon placed in a ship's stern, pointing backward and intended to annoy a ship that is in pursuit of her. – Mar. Dict.
STERN'ED, a.
In compounds, having a stern of a particular shape; as, square-sterned; pink-sterned, &c.
STERN'ER, n. [Sax. steoran, to steer.]
A director. [Not in use.] – Clarke.
STERN'-FAST, n. [stern and fast.]
A rope used to confine the stern of a ship or other vessel.
STERN'-FRAME, n. [stern and frame.]
The several pieces of timber which form the stern of a ship. – Mar. Dict.