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Ster [\N] Webster's Dictionary 1828

STER , in composition, is from the Sax. Steora, a director. See Steer . It seems primarily to have signified chief, principal or director, as in the Latin 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.

Stercobilin [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A coloring matter found in the faeces, a product of the alteration of the bile pigments in the intestinal canal, -- identical with hydrobilirubin.

Stercolin [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Same as Serolin (b).

Stercoraceous [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Pertaining to dung, or partaking of its nature.

Stercoraceous [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Of or pertaining to dung; partaking of the nature of, or containing, dung.

Stercoranism [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

The doctrine or belief of the Stercoranists.

Stercoranist [\N] Webster's Dictionary 1828

STERCORARIAN, STERCORANIST noun [Latin , dung.] One in the Romish church who held that the host is liable to digestion.

Stercoranist [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A nickname formerly given to those who held, or were alleged to hold, that the consecrated elements in the eucharist undergo the process of digestion in the body of the recipient.

Stercorarian [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

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

Stercorarian [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A Stercoranist.

Stercorary [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

A place properly secured from the weather for containing dung.

Stercorary [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A place, properly secured from the weather, for containing dung.

Stercorate [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Excrement; dung.

Stercoration [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

The act of manuring with dung.

Stercoration [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Manuring with dung.

Stercorianism [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

The doctrine or belief of the Stercoranists.

Stercorin [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Same as Serolin (b).

Stercory [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Excrement; dung.

Sterculiaceous [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Of or pertaining to a natural order (Sterculiaceae) of polypetalous exogenous plants, mostly tropical. The cacao (Theobroma Cacao) is the most useful plant of the order.

Stere [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

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

Stere [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. A unit of cubic measure in the metric system, being a cubic meter, or kiloliter, and equal to 35.3 cubic feet, or nearly 1/ cubic yards.

2. A rudder. See 5th Steer.

3. Helmsman. See 6th Steer.

Stere [Verb transitive and intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

To stir.

Sterelmintha [Noun plural] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Same as Platyelminthes.

Stereo- Webster's Dictionary 1913

A combining form meaning solid, hard, firm, as in stereo-chemistry, stereography.

Stereo-chemic [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Alt. of Stereo-chemical

Stereo-chemical [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Pertaining to, or illustrating, the hypothetical space relations of atoms in the molecule; as, a stereo-chemic formula.

Stereo-chemistry [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Chemistry considered with reference to the space relations of atoms.