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Stell [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. To place or fix firmly or permanently.

2. A prop; a support, as for the feet in standing or cilmbing.

3. A partial inclosure made by a wall or trees, to serve as a shelter for sheep or cattle.

Stellar [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Alt. of Stellary

Stellary [\N] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. STELLAR, STELLARY adjective [Latin , a star.]

2. Pertaining to stars; astral; as stellar virute; stellar figure.

3. Starry; full of stars; set with stars; as STELLARY regions.

Stellary [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. Of or pertaining to stars; astral; as, a stellar figure; stellary orbs.

2. Full of stars; starry; as, stellar regions.

Stellate [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Alt. of Stellated

Stellated [\N] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. STELLATE, STELLATED adjective [Latin]

2. Resembling a star; radiated.

3. In botany, stellate or verticillate leaves are when more leaves than two surround the stem 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.

Stellated [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. Resembling a star; pointed or radiated, like the emblem of a star.

2. Starlike; having similar parts radiating from a common center; as, stellate flowers.

Stellation [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Radiation of light. [Not in use.]

Stellation [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Radiation of light.

Stelled [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Starry. [Not in use.]

Stelled [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Firmly placed or fixed.

Steller [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

The rytina; -- called also stellerine.

Stellerid [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A starfish.

Stellerida [Noun plural] Webster's Dictionary 1913

An extensive group of echinoderms, comprising the starfishes and ophiurans.

Stelleridan [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Alt. of Stelleridean

Stelleridean [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A starfish, or brittle star.

Stelliferous [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Having or abounding with stars.

Stelliferous [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Having, or abounding with, stars.

Stelliform [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Like a star; radiated.

Stelliform [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Like a star; star-shaped; radiated.

Stellify [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

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

Stellify [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

To turn into a star; to cause to appear like a star; to place among the stars, or in heaven.

Stellion [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

A newt.

Stellion [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A lizard (Stellio vulgaris), common about the Eastern Mediterranean among ruins. In color it is olive-green, shaded with black, with small stellate spots. Called also hardim, and star lizard.

Stellionate [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

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

Stellionate [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Any fraud not distinguished by a more special name; -- chiefly applied to sales of the same property to two different persons, or selling that for one's own which belongs to another, etc.

Stellite [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

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

Stellular [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. Having the shape or appearance of little stars; radiated.

2. Marked with starlike spots of color.

Stellulate [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Minutely stellate.