Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter S - Page 155
Stell (v. t.) To place or fix firmly or permanently. [Obs.] -- Shak.
Stell (v. t.) A prop; a support, as for the feet in standing or cilmbing. [Scot.]
Stell (v. t.) A partial inclosure made by a wall or trees, to serve as a shelter for sheep or cattle. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.] Stellar
Stellar (a.) Alt. of Stellary.
Stellary (a.) Of or pertaining to stars; astral; as, a stellar figure; stellary orbs.
[These soft fires] in part shed down Their stellar virtue. -- Milton.
Stellary (a.) Full of stars; starry; as, stellar regions.
Stellar (a.) Indicating the most important performer or role; "the leading man"; "prima ballerina"; "prima donna"; "a star figure skater"; "the starring role"; "a stellar role"; "a stellar performance" [syn: leading(p), prima(p), star(p), starring(p), stellar(a)].
Stellar (a.) Being or relating to or resembling or emanating from stars; "an astral body"; "stellar light" [syn: stellar, astral].
Stellate (a.) Alt. of Stellated.
Stellated (a.) Resembling a star; pointed or radiated, like the emblem of a star.
Stellated (a.) (Bot.) Starlike; having similar parts radiating from a common center; as, stellate flowers.
Stellate (a.) Arranged like rays or radii; radiating from a common center; "radial symmetry"; "a starlike or stellate arrangement of petals"; "many cities show a radial pattern of main highways" [syn: radial, stellate, radiate].
Stellation (n.) Radiation of light. [Obs.]
Stelled (a.) Firmly placed or fixed. [Obs.] "The stelled fires" [the stars]. -- Shak.
Note: [In this passage by some defined as "starry," as if from stellatus.]
Compare: Rytina
Rytina (n.) (Zool.) A genus of large edentulous sirenians, allied to the dugong and manatee, including but one species ({Rytina Stelleri); -- called also Steller's sea cow, stellerine and steller. [Written also Rhytina.]
Note: It is now extinct, but was formerly abundant at Bering's Island, near Bering's Straits. It was twenty-five feet or more in length, with a thick, blackish, naked skin. The last were killed in 1768 for their oil and flesh.
Steller (n.) (Zool.) The rytina; -- called also stellerine and Steller's sea cow. See rytina.
Steller's sea cow (prop. n.) (Zool.) The rytina; -- called also stellerine and steller. See rytina.
Steller (n.) German naturalist (1709-1746) [syn: Steller, Georg Wilhelm Steller].
Starfish (n.) (Zool.) Any one of numerous species of echinoderms belonging to the class Asterioidea, in which the body is
star-shaped and usually has five rays, though the number of rays varies from five to forty or more. The rays are often long, but are sometimes so short as to appear only as angles to the disklike body. Called also sea star, five-finger, and stellerid.
Note: The ophiuroids are also sometimes called starfishes. See Brittle star, and Ophiuroidea.
Starfish (n.) (Zool.) The dollar fish, or butterfish.
Starfish (n.) Echinoderms characterized by five arms extending from a central disk [syn: starfish, sea star].
Stellerid (n.) (Zool.) A starfish.
Stellerida (n. pl.) [NL.] (Zool.) An extensive group of echinoderms, comprising the starfishes and ophiurans. Stelleridan
Stelleridan (n.) Alt. of Stelleridean.
Stelleridean (n.) (Zool.) A starfish, or brittle star.
Stelliferous (a.) Having, or abounding with, stars.
Stelliform (a.) Like a star; star-shaped; radiated.
Stellify (v. t.) To turn into a
star; to cause to appear like a star; to place among the stars, or in heaven.
[Obs. or R.] -- B. Jonson.
Stellion (n.) (Zool.) 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 (n.) (Scots & Roman Law) 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. -- Erskine.
Stellionate, () civil law. A name given generally, to all species of frauds committed in making contracts.
Stellionate, () This word is said to be derived from the Latin stellio, a kind of lizard remarkable for its cunning and the change of its color, because those guilty of frauds used every art and cunning to conceal them. But more particularly it was the crime of a person who fraudulently assigned, sold, or engaged the thing which he had before assigned sold, or engaged to another, unknown to the person with whom be was dealing. Dig. 47, 20, 3; Code, 9, 34, 1; Merl. Repert. h.t.; Code Civil, art. 2069; 1 Bro. Civ. Law, 426.
Stellionate, () In South Carolina and Georgia, a mortgagor who makes a second mortgage without disclosing in writing, to the second mortgagee, the existence of the first mortgage, is not allowed to redeem and, in the foreign state, when a person suffers a judgment, or enters into a statute or recognizance binding his land, afterwards mortgages it, without giving notice, in writing, of the prior incumbrance, he shall not be allowed to redeem, unless, within six months from a written demand, he discharges such incumbrance. Prin. Dig. 161; 1 Brev. Dig. 166-8.
Stellionate, () In Ohio a fraudulent conveyance is punished as a crime; Walk. Intr. 350; and, in Indians, any party to a fraudulent conveyance is subjected to a flue and to double damages. Ind. Rev. Laws, 189. See 12 Pet. 773.
Stellular (a.) Having the shape or appearance of little stars; radiated.
Stellular (a.) Marked with starlike spots of color.
Stellulate (a.) (Bot.) Minutely stellate.
Stelmatopoda (n. pl.) (Zool.) Same as Gymnolaemata.
Stelography (n.) The art of writing or inscribing characters on pillars. [R.] -- Stackhouse. Stem
Stem (v. i.) Alt. of Steem.
Steem (v. i.) To gleam. [Obs.]
His head bald, that shone as any glass, . . .
[And] stemed as a furnace of a leed [caldron]. -- Chaucer. Stem
Stem (n.) Alt. of Steem.
Steem (n.) A gleam of light; flame. [Obs.]
Stem (n.) The principal body of a tree, shrub, or plant, of any kind; the main stock; the part which supports the branches or the head or top.
After they are shot up thirty feet in length, they spread a very large top, having no bough nor twig in the trunk or the stem. -- Sir W. Raleigh.
The lowering spring, with lavish rain, Beats down the slender stem and breaded grain. -- Dryden.
Stem (n.) A little branch which connects a fruit, flower, or leaf with a main branch; a peduncle, pedicel, or petiole; as, the stem of an apple or a cherry.
Stem (n.) The stock of a family; a race or generation of progenitors. "All that are of noble stem." -- Milton.
While I do pray, learn here thy stem And true descent. -- Herbert.
Stem (n.) A branch of a family.
This is a stem Of that victorious stock. -- Shak.
Stem (n.) (Naut.) A curved 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. Hence, the forward part of a vessel; the bow.
Stem (n.) Fig.: An advanced or leading position; the lookout.
Wolsey sat at the stem more than twenty years. -- Fuller.
Stem (n.) Anything resembling a stem or stalk; as, the stem of a tobacco pipe; the stem of a watch case, or that part to which the ring, by which it is suspended, is attached.
Stem (n.) (Bot.) That part of a plant which bears leaves, or rudiments of leaves, whether rising above ground or wholly subterranean.
Stem (n.) (Zool.) The entire central axis of a feather.
Stem (n.) (Zool.) The basal portion of the body of one of the Pennatulacea, or of a gorgonian.
Stem (n.) (Mus.) The short perpendicular line added to the body of a note; the tail of a crotchet, quaver, semiquaver, etc.
Stem (n.) (Gram.) The part of an inflected word which remains unchanged (except by euphonic variations) throughout a given inflection; theme; base.
From stem to stern (Naut.), From one end of the ship to the other, or through the whole length.
Stem leaf (Bot.), A leaf growing from the stem of a plant, as contrasted with a basal or radical leaf.
Stem (v. t.) To remove the stem or stems from; as, to stem cherries; to remove the stem and its appendages (ribs and veins) from; as, to stem tobacco leaves.
Stem (v. t.) To ram, as clay, into a blasting hole.
Stemmed (imp. & p. p.) of Stem.
Stemming (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Stem.
Stem (v. t.) To oppose or cut with, or as with, the stem of a vessel; to resist, or make progress against; to stop or check the flow of, as a current. "An argosy to stem the waves." -- Shak.
[They] stem the flood with their erected breasts. -- Denham.
Stemmed the wild torrent of a barbarous age. -- Pope.
Stem (v. i.) To move forward against an obstacle, as a vessel against a current.
Stemming nightly toward the pole. -- Milton.
Stem (n.) (Linguistics) The form of a word after all affixes are removed; "thematic vowels are part of the stem" [syn: root, root word, base, stem, theme, radical].
Stem (n.) A slender or elongated structure that supports a plant or fungus or a plant part or plant organ [syn: stalk, stem].
Stem (n.) Cylinder forming a long narrow part of something [syn: shank, stem].
Stem (n.) The tube of a tobacco pipe.
Stem (n.) Front part of a vessel or aircraft; "he pointed the bow of the boat toward the finish line" [syn: bow, fore, prow, stem].
Stem (n.) A turn made in skiing; the back of one ski is forced outward and the other ski is brought parallel to it [syn: stem turn, stem].
Stem (v.) Grow out of, have roots in, originate in; "The increase in the national debt stems from the last war."
Stem (v.) Cause to point inward; "stem your skis."
Stem (v.) Stop the flow of a liquid; "staunch the blood flow"; "stem the tide" [syn: stem, stanch, staunch, halt].
Stem (v.) Remove the stem from; "for automatic natural language processing, the words must be stemmed."
Stem, NC -- U.S. town in North Carolina
Population (2000): 229
Housing Units (2000): 102
Land area (2000): 0.936489 sq. miles (2.425495 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.001160 sq. miles (0.003004 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.937649 sq. miles (2.428499 sq. km)
FIPS code: 64940
Located within: North Carolina (NC), FIPS 37
Location: 36.200527 N, 78.723605 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 27581
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Stem, NC
Stem
Stem-clasping (a.) (Bot.) Embracing the stem with its base; amplexicaul; as a leaf or petiole.
Stemless (a.) Having no stem; (Bot.) acaulescent.
Stemless (a.) Not having a stem; "stemless glassware" [ant: stemmed].
Stemless (a.) (Of plants) Having no apparent stem above ground [syn: acaulescent, stemless] [ant: caulescent, cauline, stemmed].
Stemlet (n.) A small or young stem.
Stemmata (n. pl. ) of Stemma.
Stemma (n.) (Zool.) One of the ocelli of an insect. See Ocellus.
Stemma (n.) (Zool.) One of the facets of a compound eye of any arthropod.
Stemmer (n.) One who, or that which, stems (in any of the senses of the verbs).
Stemmer (n.) A worker who strips the stems from moistened tobacco leaves and binds the leaves together into books [syn: stripper, stemmer, sprigger].
Stemmer (n.) A worker who makes or applies stems for artificial flowers.
Stemmer (n.) An algorithm for removing inflectional and derivational endings in order to reduce word forms to a common stem [syn: stemmer, stemming algorithm].
Stemmer (n.) A miner's tamping bar for ramming packing in over a blasting charge.
Stemmer (n.) A device for removing stems from fruit (as from grapes or apples).
Stemmer
Stemming, () A program or algorithm which determines the morphological root of a given inflected (or, sometimes, derived) word form -- generally a written word form.
A stemmer for English, for example, should identify the string "cats" (and possibly "catlike", "catty" etc.) as based on the root "cat", and "stemmer", "stemming", "stemmed" as based on "stem."
English stemmers are fairly trivial (with only occasional problems, such as "dries" being the third-person singular present form of the verb "dry", "axes" being the plural of "ax" as well as "axis"); but stemmers become harder to design as the morphology, orthography, and character encoding of the target language becomes more complex. For example, an Italian stemmer is more complex than an English one (because of more possible verb inflections), a Russian one is more complex (more possible noun declensions), a Hebrew one is even more complex (a hairy writing system), and so on.
Stemmers are common elements in query systems, since a user who runs a query on "daffodils" probably cares about documents that contain the word "daffodil" (without the s).
({This dictionary has a rudimentary stemmer which currently (April 1997) handles only conversion of plurals to singulars). (1997-04-09)
Stemmery (n.) A large building in which tobacco is stemmed. [U. S.] -- Bartlett.
Stemmy (a.) Abounding in stems, or mixed with stems; -- said of tea, dried currants, etc. [Colloq.]
Stemple (n.) (Mining) A crossbar of wood in a shaft, serving as a step.
Stemson (n.) (Shipbuilding) A piece of curved timber bolted to the stem, keelson, and apron in a ship's frame near the bow.
Stem-winder (n.) A stem-winding watch. [Colloq.]
Stem-winder (n.) Hence: (Fig.) Anything of superior quality, as was attributed to the stem-winding watch; -- esp. used to describe a stirring speech, as in the phrase "a stem-winder of a speech" or "delivered a stem-winder."
Stem-winder (n.) A watch that is wound by turning a knob at the stem.
Stem-winding (a.) Wound by mechanism connected with the stem; as, a stem-winding watch.
Stench (v. t.) To stanch. [Obs.] -- Harvey.
Stench (n.) A smell; an odor. [Obs.]
Clouds of savory stench involve the sky. -- Dryden.
Stench (n.) An ill smell; an offensive odor; a stink. -- Cowper.
Stench trap, A contrivance to prevent stench or foul air from rising from the openings of sewers, drains, etc.
Stench (v. t.) To cause to emit a disagreeable odor; to cause to stink. [Obs.] -- Young.
Stench (n.) A distinctive odor that is offensively unpleasant [syn: malodor, malodour, stench, stink, reek, fetor, foetor, mephitis].
Stenchy (a.) Having a stench. [Obs.] -- Dyer.
Stencil (n.) A thin plate of metal, leather, or other material, used in painting, marking, etc. The pattern is cut out of the plate, which is then laid flat on the surface to be marked, and the color brushed over it. Called also stencil plate.
Stenciled (imp. & p. p.) of Stencil.
Stencilled () of Stencil.
Stenciling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Stencil.
Stencilling () of Stencil.
Stencil (v. t.) To mark, paint, or color in figures with stencils; to form or print by means of a stencil.
Stencil (n.) A sheet of material (metal, plastic, cardboard, waxed paper, silk, etc.) that has been perforated with a pattern (printing or a design); ink or paint can pass through the perforations to create the printed pattern on the surface below.
Stencil (v.) Mark or print with a stencil.
Stenciler (n.) One who paints or colors in figures by means of stencil. [Written also stenciller.]
Stenoderm (n.) (Zool.) Any species of bat belonging to the genus Stenoderma, native of the West Indies and South America. These bats have a short or rudimentary tail and a peculiarly shaped nose membrane.
Stenodermine (a.) (Zool.) Of or pertaining to the genus Stenoderma, which includes several West Indian and South American nose-leaf bats.
Stenographed (imp. & p. p.) of Stenograph.
Stenographing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Stenograph.
Stenograph (v. t.) To write or report in stenographic characters.
Stenograph (n.) A production of stenography; anything written in shorthand.
I saw the reporters' room, in which they redact their hasty stenographs. -- Emerson.
Stenograph (n.) A shorthand character.
Stenograph (n.) A machine for typewriting shorthand characters.
Stenograph (v.) Write in shorthand; "The students were able to stenograph and record the conversation."
Stenographer (n.) 速記員 One who is skilled in stenography; a writer of shorthand. Stenographic
Stenographer (n.) Someone skilled in the transcription of speech (especially dictation) [syn: {stenographer}, {amanuensis}, {shorthand typist}].
Stenographic (a.) Alt. of Stenographical.
Stenographical (a.) Of or pertaining to stenography.
Stenographical (a.) Of or relating to or employing stenography [syn: stenographic, stenographical].
Stenographist (n.) A stenographer.
Stenography (n.) The art of writing in shorthand, by using abbreviations or characters for whole words; shorthand.
Stenography (n.) A method of writing rapidly [syn: shorthand, stenography, tachygraphy].
Stenography (n.) The act or art of writing in shorthand; "stenography is no longer a marketable skill."
Stenophyllous (a.) (Bot.) Having narrow leaves.
Stenosis (n.) (Med.) A narrowing of the opening or hollow of any passage, tube, or orifice; as, stenosis of the pylorus. It differs from stricture in being applied especially to diffused rather than localized contractions, and in always indicating an origin organic and not spasmodic.
Stenosis (n.) Abnormal narrowing of a bodily canal or passageway [syn: stenosis, stricture].
Stenostome (a.) (Zool.) Having a small or narrow mouth; -- said of certain small ground snakes ({Opoterodonta), which are unable to dilate their jaws.
Stente (obs. imp.) of Stent.
Stent (obs. p. p.) of Stent.
Stent (v. t.) To keep within limits; to restrain; to cause to stop, or cease; to stint.
Then would he weep, he might not be stent. -- Chaucer.
Yet n'ould she stent Her bitter railing and foul revilement. -- Spenser.
Stent (v. i.) To stint; to stop; to cease.
And of this cry they would never stenten. -- Chaucer.
Stent (n.) An allotted portion; a stint. "Attain'd his journey's stent." -- Mir. for Mag.
Stent (n.) A slender tube inserted inside a tubular body part (as a blood vessel) to provide support during and after surgical anastomosis.
Stenting (n.) An opening in a wall in a coal mine. [Written also stenton.] [Prov. Eng.] -- Halliwell.
Stentor (n.) A herald, in the Iliad, who had a very loud voice; hence, any person having a powerful voice.
Stentor (n.) (Zool.) Any species of ciliated Infusoria belonging to the genus Stentor and allied genera, common in fresh water. The stentors have a bell-shaped, or cornucopia-like, body with a circle of cilia around the spiral terminal disk. See Illust. under Heterotricha.
Stentor (n.) (Zool.) A howling monkey, or howler.
Stentor (n.) A speaker with an unusually loud voice.
Stentor (n.) The mythical Greek warrior with an unusually loud voice who died after losing a shouting contest with Hermes.
Stentor (n.) Any of several trumpet-shaped ciliate protozoans that are members of the genus Stentor.
Stentorian (a.) Of or pertaining to a stentor; extremely loud; powerful; as, a stentorian voice; stentorian lungs.
Stentorian (a.) Used of the voice [syn: booming, stentorian].
Stentorin (n.) (Chem.) A blue coloring matter found in some stentors. See Stentor, 2.
Stentorious (a.) Stentorian. [R.]
Stentoronic (a.) Stentorian. [Obs.]