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- English Word Sternum Definition A plate of cartilage, or a series of bony or cartilaginous plates or segments, in the median line of the pectoral skeleton of most vertebrates above fishes; the breastbone.
- English Word Sternum Definition The ventral part of any one of the somites of an arthropod.
- English Word Sternums Definition of Sternum
- English Word Sternutation Definition The act of sneezing.
- English Word Sternutative Definition Having the quality of provoking to sneeze.
- English Word Sternutatory Definition Sternutative.
- English Word Sternutatory Definition A sternutatory substance or medicine.
- English Word Sternway Definition The movement of a ship backward, or with her stern foremost.
- English Word Sterquilinous Definition Pertaining to a dunghill; hence, mean; dirty; paltry.
- English Word Sterre Definition A star.
- English Word Sterrink Definition The crab-eating seal (Lobodon carcinophaga) of the Antarctic Ocean.
- English Word Sterrometal Definition Any alloy of copper, zinc, tin, and iron, of which cannon are sometimes made.
- English Word Stert Definition Started.
- English Word Sterte Definition p. p. of Start.
- English Word Stertorious Definition Stertorous.
- English Word Stertorous Definition Characterized by a deep snoring, which accompaines inspiration in some diseases, especially apoplexy; hence, hoarsely breathing; snoring.
- English Word Sterve Definition To die, or cause to die; to perish. See Starve.
- English Word Stet Definition Let it stand; -- a word used by proof readers to signify that something once erased, or marked for omission, is to remain.
- English Word Stet Definition To cause or direct to remain after having been marked for omission; to mark with the word stet, or with a series of dots below or beside the matter; as, the proof reader stetted a deled footnote.
- English Word Stethal Definition One of the higher alcohols of the methane series, homologous with ethal, and found in small quantities as an ethereal salt of stearic acid in spermaceti.