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   show trial
         n 1: a trial held for show; the guilt of the accused person has
               been decided in advance

English Dictionary: sterile by the DICT Development Group
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
sidereal
adj
  1. of or relating to the stars or constellations; "sidereal bodies"; "the sidereal system"
  2. (of divisions of time) determined by daily motion of the stars; "sidereal time"
    Antonym(s): civil
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
sidereal day
n
  1. the time for one complete rotation of the earth relative to a particular star, about 4 minutes shorter than a mean solar day
    Synonym(s): sidereal day, day
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
sidereal hour
n
  1. 1/24 of a sidereal day
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
sidereal month
n
  1. period between successive conjunctions with a star, 27.322 days
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
sidereal time
n
  1. measured by the diurnal motion of stars
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
sidereal year
n
  1. the time for the earth to make one complete revolution around the sun, relative to the fixed stars
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
ski trail
n
  1. trail or slope prepared for skiing [syn: ski run, {ski trail}]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
soteriological
adj
  1. of or relating to soteriology
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
soteriology
n
  1. the branch of Christian theology that deals with salvation as the effect of a divine agency
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
southerly
adv
  1. toward the south; "the ship turned southerly" [syn: southerly, southward, southwards]
  2. from the south; "a wind blew southerly"
adj
  1. situated in or oriented toward the south; "a southern exposure"; "took a southerly course"
    Synonym(s): southerly, southern
  2. from the south; used especially of wind; "a hot southerly wind"; "southern breezes"; "the winds are southerly"
    Synonym(s): southerly, southern
n
  1. a wind from the south [syn: south wind, souther, southerly]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
stairwell
n
  1. a vertical well around which there is a stairway
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
star-leaf begonia
n
  1. rhizomatous begonia having leaves with pointed lobes suggestive of stars and pink flowers
    Synonym(s): star begonia, star-leaf begonia, Begonia heracleifolia
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
starless
adj
  1. not starry; having no stars or starlike objects; "dark starless nights"
    Antonym(s): starry
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
starlet
n
  1. a young (film) actress who is publicized as a future star
  2. a small star
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
starlight
n
  1. the light of the stars
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
starlike
adj
  1. resembling a star; "they saw a starlike object in the sky"
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
starling
n
  1. gregarious birds native to the Old World
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
starlit
adj
  1. lighted only by stars; "the starlit darkness"
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
sterile
adj
  1. incapable of reproducing; "an infertile couple" [syn: sterile, unfertile, infertile]
    Antonym(s): fertile
  2. free of or using methods to keep free of pathological microorganisms; "a sterile operating area"; "aseptic surgical instruments"; "aseptic surgical techniques"
    Synonym(s): aseptic, sterile
  3. deficient in originality or creativity; lacking powers of invention; "a sterile ideology lacking in originality"; "unimaginative development of a musical theme"; "uninspired writing"
    Synonym(s): sterile, unimaginative, uninspired, uninventive
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
sterileness
n
  1. (of non-living objects) the state of being free of pathogenic organisms
    Synonym(s): asepsis, antisepsis, sterility, sterileness
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
sterilisation
n
  1. the act of making an organism barren or infertile (unable to reproduce)
    Synonym(s): sterilization, sterilisation
  2. the procedure of making some object free of live bacteria or other microorganisms (usually by heat or chemical means)
    Synonym(s): sterilization, sterilisation
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
sterilise
v
  1. make free from bacteria
    Synonym(s): sterilize, sterilise
  2. make infertile; "in some countries, people with genetically transmissible disabilites are sterilized"
    Synonym(s): sterilize, sterilise, desex, unsex, desexualize, desexualise, fix
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
sterilised
adj
  1. made infertile
    Synonym(s): sterilized, sterilised
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
steriliser
n
  1. a device for heating substances above their boiling point; used to manufacture chemicals or to sterilize surgical instruments
    Synonym(s): autoclave, sterilizer, steriliser
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
sterility
n
  1. (of non-living objects) the state of being free of pathogenic organisms
    Synonym(s): asepsis, antisepsis, sterility, sterileness
  2. the state of being unable to produce offspring; in a woman it is an inability to conceive; in a man it is an inability to impregnate
    Synonym(s): sterility, infertility
    Antonym(s): fecundity, fertility
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
sterilization
n
  1. the act of making an organism barren or infertile (unable to reproduce)
    Synonym(s): sterilization, sterilisation
  2. the procedure of making some object free of live bacteria or other microorganisms (usually by heat or chemical means)
    Synonym(s): sterilization, sterilisation
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
sterilize
v
  1. make free from bacteria
    Synonym(s): sterilize, sterilise
  2. make infertile; "in some countries, people with genetically transmissible disabilites are sterilized"
    Synonym(s): sterilize, sterilise, desex, unsex, desexualize, desexualise, fix
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
sterilized
adj
  1. made infertile
    Synonym(s): sterilized, sterilised
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
sterilizer
n
  1. a device for heating substances above their boiling point; used to manufacture chemicals or to sterilize surgical instruments
    Synonym(s): autoclave, sterilizer, steriliser
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
sterling
adj
  1. highest in quality [syn: greatest, sterling(a), superlative]
n
  1. British money; especially the pound sterling as the basic monetary unit of the UK
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
sterling area
n
  1. the group of countries whose currencies are tied to the British pound sterling
    Synonym(s): sterling area, sterling bloc, scheduled territories
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
sterling bloc
n
  1. the group of countries whose currencies are tied to the British pound sterling
    Synonym(s): sterling area, sterling bloc, scheduled territories
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
sterling silver
n
  1. a silver alloy with no more than 7.5% copper
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
sterol
n
  1. any of a group of natural steroid alcohols derived from plants or animals; they are waxy insoluble substances
    Synonym(s): sterol, steroid alcohol
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
storyline
n
  1. the plot of a book or play or film [syn: storyline, {plot line}]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Strelitzia
n
  1. small genus of large perennial evergreen herbs having leaves resembling those of banana plants; sometimes placed in family Musaceae
    Synonym(s): Strelitzia, genus Strelitzia
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
strelitzia family
n
  1. woody plants with erect stems of tropical South America and South Africa and Madagascar; in some classifications included in the family Musaceae
    Synonym(s): Strelitziaceae, family Strelitziaceae, strelitzia family
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Strelitzia reginae
n
  1. ornamental plant of tropical South Africa and South America having stalks of orange and purplish-blue flowers resembling a bird
    Synonym(s): bird of paradise, Strelitzia reginae
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Strelitziaceae
n
  1. woody plants with erect stems of tropical South America and South Africa and Madagascar; in some classifications included in the family Musaceae
    Synonym(s): Strelitziaceae, family Strelitziaceae, strelitzia family
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
stroll
n
  1. a leisurely walk (usually in some public place) [syn: amble, promenade, saunter, stroll, perambulation]
v
  1. walk leisurely and with no apparent aim [syn: stroll, saunter]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
stroller
n
  1. someone who walks at a leisurely pace [syn: saunterer, stroller, ambler]
  2. a small vehicle with four wheels in which a baby or child is pushed around
    Synonym(s): baby buggy, baby carriage, carriage, perambulator, pram, stroller, go-cart, pushchair, pusher
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Sutherland
n
  1. Australian operatic soprano (born in 1926) [syn: Sutherland, Joan Sutherland, Dame Joan Sutherland]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
sutura lamboidea
n
  1. the suture between the occipital and parietal bones [syn: lamboid suture, sutura lamboidea]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
sutural bone
n
  1. any of the tiny soft bones found in the sutures between cranial bones
    Synonym(s): Wormian bone, sutural bone
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
sweet roll
n
  1. any of numerous yeast-raised sweet rolls with our without raisins or nuts or spices or a glaze
    Synonym(s): sweet roll, coffee roll
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Sauterelle \Sau`te*relle\, n. [F.]
      An instrument used by masons and others to trace and form
      angles.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Scatterling \Scat"ter*ling\, n. [Scatter + -ling.]
      One who has no fixed habitation or residence; a vagabond.
      [Obs.] [bd]Foreign scatterlings.[b8] --Spenser.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Seed \Seed\, n.; pl. {Seed} or {Seeds}. [OE. seed, sed, AS.
      s[?]d, fr. s[be]wan to sow; akin to D. zaad seed, G. saat,
      Icel. s[be][?], s[?][?]i, Goth. manas[?]ps seed of men.
      world. See {Sow} to scatter seed, and cf. {Colza}.]
      1. (Bot.)
            (a) A ripened ovule, consisting of an embryo with one or
                  more integuments, or coverings; as, an apple seed; a
                  currant seed. By germination it produces a new plant.
            (b) Any small seedlike fruit, though it may consist of a
                  pericarp, or even a calyx, as well as the seed proper;
                  as, parsnip seed; thistle seed.
  
                           And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass,
                           the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree
                           yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in
                           itself.                                       --Gen. i. 11.
  
      Note: The seed proper has an outer and an inner coat, and
               within these the kernel or nucleus. The kernel is
               either the embryo alone, or the embryo inclosed in the
               albumen, which is the material for the nourishment of
               the developing embryo. The scar on a seed, left where
               the stem parted from it, is called the hilum, and the
               closed orifice of the ovule, the micropyle.
  
      2. (Physiol.) The generative fluid of the male; semen; sperm;
            -- not used in the plural.
  
      3. That from which anything springs; first principle;
            original; source; as, the seeds of virtue or vice.
  
      4. The principle of production.
  
                     Praise of great acts he scatters as a seed, Which
                     may the like in coming ages breed.      --Waller.
  
      5. Progeny; offspring; children; descendants; as, the seed of
            Abraham; the seed of David.
  
      Note: In this sense the word is applied to one person, or to
               any number collectively, and admits of the plural form,
               though rarely used in the plural.
  
      6. Race; generation; birth.
  
                     Of mortal seed they were not held.      --Waller.
  
      {Seed bag} (Artesian well), a packing to prevent percolation
            of water down the bore hole. It consists of a bag
            encircling the tubing and filled with flax seed, which
            swells when wet and fills the space between the tubing and
            the sides of the hole.
  
      {Seed bud} (Bot.), the germ or rudiment of the plant in the
            embryo state; the ovule.
  
      {Seed coat} (Bot.), the covering of a seed.
  
      {Seed corn}, [or] {Seed grain} (Bot.), corn or grain for
            seed.
  
      {Seed down} (Bot.), the soft hairs on certain seeds, as
            cotton seed.
  
      {Seed drill}. See 6th {Drill}, 2
            (a) .
  
      {Seed eater} (Zo[94]l.), any finch of the genera
            {Sporophila}, and {Crithagra}. They feed mainly on seeds.
           
  
      {Seed gall} (Zo[94]l.), any gall which resembles a seed,
            formed, on the leaves of various plants, usually by some
            species of Phylloxera.
  
      {Seed leaf} (Bot.), a cotyledon.
  
      {Seed lobe} (Bot.), a cotyledon; a seed leaf.
  
      {Seed oil}, oil expressed from the seeds of plants.
  
      {Seed oyster}, a young oyster, especially when of a size
            suitable for transplantation to a new locality.
  
      {Seed pearl}, a small pearl of little value.
  
      {Seed plat}, [or] {Seed plot}, the ground on which seeds are
            sown, to produce plants for transplanting; a nursery.
  
      {Seed stalk} (Bot.), the stalk of an ovule or seed; a
            funicle.
  
      {Seed tick} (Zo[94]l.), one of several species of ticks
            resembling seeds in form and color.
  
      {Seed vessel} (Bot.), that part of a plant which contains the
            seeds; a pericarp.
  
      {Seed weevil} (Zo[94]l.), any one of numerous small weevels,
            especially those of the genus {Apion}, which live in the
            seeds of various plants.
  
      {Seed wool}, cotton wool not yet cleansed of its seeds.
            [Southern U.S.]

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Sideral \Sid"er*al\, a. [L. sideralis. See {Sidereal}.]
      1. Relating to the stars.
  
      2. (Astrol.) Affecting unfavorably by the supposed influence
            of the stars; baleful. [bd]Sideral blast.[b8] --Milton.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Sidereal \Si*de"re*al\, a. [L. sidereus, from sidus, sideris, a
      constellation, a star. Cf. {Sideral}, {Consider}, {Desire}.]
      1. Relating to the stars; starry; astral; as, sidereal
            astronomy.
  
      2. (Astron.) Measuring by the apparent motion of the stars;
            designated, marked out, or accompanied, by a return to the
            same position in respect to the stars; as, the sidereal
            revolution of a planet; a sidereal day.
  
      {Sidereal clock}, {day}, {month}, {year}. See under {Clock},
            {Day}, etc.
  
      {Sideral time}, time as reckoned by sideral days, or, taking
            the sidereal day as the unit, the time elapsed since a
            transit of the vernal equinox, reckoned in parts of a
            sidereal day. This is, strictly, apparent sidereal time,
            mean sidereal time being reckoned from the transit, not of
            the true, but of the mean, equinoctial point.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Month \Month\, n. [OE. month, moneth, AS. m[d3]n[?], m[d3]na[?];
      akin to m[d3]na moon, and to D. maand month, G. monat, OHG.
      m[be]n[d3]d, Icel. m[be]nu[?]r, m[be]na[?]r, Goth.
      m[c7]n[d3][?]s. [fb]272. See {Moon}.]
      One of the twelve portions into which the year is divided;
      the twelfth part of a year, corresponding nearly to the
      length of a synodic revolution of the moon, -- whence the
      name. In popular use, a period of four weeks is often called
      a month.
  
      Note: In the common law, a month is a lunar month, or
               twenty-eight days, unless otherwise expressed.
               --Blackstone. In the United States the rule of the
               common law is generally changed, and a month is
               declared to mean a calendar month. --Cooley's
               Blackstone.
  
      {A month mind}.
      (a) A strong or abnormal desire. [Obs.] --Shak.
      (b) A celebration made in remembrance of a deceased person a
            month after death. --Strype.
  
      {Calendar months}, the months as adjusted in the common or
            Gregorian calendar; April, June, September, and November,
            containing 30 days, and the rest 31, except February,
            which, in common years, has 28, and in leap years 29.
  
      {Lunar month}, the period of one revolution of the moon,
            particularly a synodical revolution; but several kinds are
            distinguished, as the {synodical month}, or period from
            one new moon to the next, in mean length 29 d. 12 h. 44 m.
            2.87 s.; the {nodical month}, or time of revolution from
            one node to the same again, in length 27 d. 5 h. 5 m. 36
            s.; the {sidereal}, or time of revolution from a star to
            the same again, equal to 27 d. 7 h. 43 m. 11.5 s.; the
            {anomalistic}, or time of revolution from perigee to
            perigee again, in length 27 d. 13 h. 18 m. 37.4 s.; and
            the {tropical}, or time of passing from any point of the
            ecliptic to the same again, equal to 27 d. 7 h. 43 m. 4.7
            s.
  
      {Solar month}, the time in which the sun passes through one
            sign of the zodiac, in mean length 30 d. 10 h. 29 m. 4.1
            s.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Sidereal \Si*de"re*al\, a. [L. sidereus, from sidus, sideris, a
      constellation, a star. Cf. {Sideral}, {Consider}, {Desire}.]
      1. Relating to the stars; starry; astral; as, sidereal
            astronomy.
  
      2. (Astron.) Measuring by the apparent motion of the stars;
            designated, marked out, or accompanied, by a return to the
            same position in respect to the stars; as, the sidereal
            revolution of a planet; a sidereal day.
  
      {Sidereal clock}, {day}, {month}, {year}. See under {Clock},
            {Day}, etc.
  
      {Sideral time}, time as reckoned by sideral days, or, taking
            the sidereal day as the unit, the time elapsed since a
            transit of the vernal equinox, reckoned in parts of a
            sidereal day. This is, strictly, apparent sidereal time,
            mean sidereal time being reckoned from the transit, not of
            the true, but of the mean, equinoctial point.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Month \Month\, n. [OE. month, moneth, AS. m[d3]n[?], m[d3]na[?];
      akin to m[d3]na moon, and to D. maand month, G. monat, OHG.
      m[be]n[d3]d, Icel. m[be]nu[?]r, m[be]na[?]r, Goth.
      m[c7]n[d3][?]s. [fb]272. See {Moon}.]
      One of the twelve portions into which the year is divided;
      the twelfth part of a year, corresponding nearly to the
      length of a synodic revolution of the moon, -- whence the
      name. In popular use, a period of four weeks is often called
      a month.
  
      Note: In the common law, a month is a lunar month, or
               twenty-eight days, unless otherwise expressed.
               --Blackstone. In the United States the rule of the
               common law is generally changed, and a month is
               declared to mean a calendar month. --Cooley's
               Blackstone.
  
      {A month mind}.
      (a) A strong or abnormal desire. [Obs.] --Shak.
      (b) A celebration made in remembrance of a deceased person a
            month after death. --Strype.
  
      {Calendar months}, the months as adjusted in the common or
            Gregorian calendar; April, June, September, and November,
            containing 30 days, and the rest 31, except February,
            which, in common years, has 28, and in leap years 29.
  
      {Lunar month}, the period of one revolution of the moon,
            particularly a synodical revolution; but several kinds are
            distinguished, as the {synodical month}, or period from
            one new moon to the next, in mean length 29 d. 12 h. 44 m.
            2.87 s.; the {nodical month}, or time of revolution from
            one node to the same again, in length 27 d. 5 h. 5 m. 36
            s.; the {sidereal}, or time of revolution from a star to
            the same again, equal to 27 d. 7 h. 43 m. 11.5 s.; the
            {anomalistic}, or time of revolution from perigee to
            perigee again, in length 27 d. 13 h. 18 m. 37.4 s.; and
            the {tropical}, or time of passing from any point of the
            ecliptic to the same again, equal to 27 d. 7 h. 43 m. 4.7
            s.
  
      {Solar month}, the time in which the sun passes through one
            sign of the zodiac, in mean length 30 d. 10 h. 29 m. 4.1
            s.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Sidereal \Si*de"re*al\, a. [L. sidereus, from sidus, sideris, a
      constellation, a star. Cf. {Sideral}, {Consider}, {Desire}.]
      1. Relating to the stars; starry; astral; as, sidereal
            astronomy.
  
      2. (Astron.) Measuring by the apparent motion of the stars;
            designated, marked out, or accompanied, by a return to the
            same position in respect to the stars; as, the sidereal
            revolution of a planet; a sidereal day.
  
      {Sidereal clock}, {day}, {month}, {year}. See under {Clock},
            {Day}, etc.
  
      {Sideral time}, time as reckoned by sideral days, or, taking
            the sidereal day as the unit, the time elapsed since a
            transit of the vernal equinox, reckoned in parts of a
            sidereal day. This is, strictly, apparent sidereal time,
            mean sidereal time being reckoned from the transit, not of
            the true, but of the mean, equinoctial point.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Sidereal \Si*de"re*al\, a. [L. sidereus, from sidus, sideris, a
      constellation, a star. Cf. {Sideral}, {Consider}, {Desire}.]
      1. Relating to the stars; starry; astral; as, sidereal
            astronomy.
  
      2. (Astron.) Measuring by the apparent motion of the stars;
            designated, marked out, or accompanied, by a return to the
            same position in respect to the stars; as, the sidereal
            revolution of a planet; a sidereal day.
  
      {Sidereal clock}, {day}, {month}, {year}. See under {Clock},
            {Day}, etc.
  
      {Sideral time}, time as reckoned by sideral days, or, taking
            the sidereal day as the unit, the time elapsed since a
            transit of the vernal equinox, reckoned in parts of a
            sidereal day. This is, strictly, apparent sidereal time,
            mean sidereal time being reckoned from the transit, not of
            the true, but of the mean, equinoctial point.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Clock \Clock\, n. [AS. clucge bell; akin to D. klok clock, bell,
      G. glocke, Dan. klokke, Sw. klocka, Icel. klukka bell, LL.
      clocca, cloca (whence F. cloche); al perh. of Celtic origin;
      cf. Ir. & Gael. clog bell, clock, W. cloch bell. Cf.
      {Cloak}.]
      1. A machine for measuring time, indicating the hour and
            other divisions by means of hands moving on a dial plate.
            Its works are moved by a weight or a spring, and it is
            often so constructed as to tell the hour by the stroke of
            a hammer on a bell. It is not adapted, like the watch, to
            be carried on the person.
  
      2. A watch, esp. one that strikes. [Obs.] --Walton.
  
      3. The striking of a clock. [Obs.] --Dryden.
  
      4. A figure or figured work on the ankle or side of a
            stocking. --Swift.
  
      Note: The phrases what o'clock? it is nine o'clock, etc., are
               contracted from what of the clock? it is nine of the
               clock, etc.
  
      {Alarm clock}. See under {Alarm}.
  
      {Astronomical clock}.
            (a) A clock of superior construction, with a compensating
                  pendulum, etc., to measure time with great accuracy,
                  for use in astronomical observatories; -- called a
                  regulator when used by watchmakers as a standard for
                  regulating timepieces.
            (b) A clock with mechanism for indicating certain
                  astronomical phenomena, as the phases of the moon,
                  position of the sun in the ecliptic, equation of time,
                  etc.
  
      {Electric clock}.
            (a) A clock moved or regulated by electricity or
                  electro-magnetism.
            (b) A clock connected with an electro-magnetic recording
                  apparatus.
  
      {Ship's clock} (Naut.), a clock arranged to strike from one
            to eight strokes, at half hourly intervals, marking the
            divisions of the ship's watches.
  
      {Sidereal clock}, an astronomical clock regulated to keep
            sidereal time.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Day \Day\, n. [OE. day, dai,, dei, AS. d[91]g; akin to OS., D.,
      Dan., & Sw. dag, G, tag, Icel. dagr, Goth. dags; cf. Skr. dah
      (for dhagh ?) to burn. [fb]69. Cf. {Dawn}.]
      1. The time of light, or interval between one night and the
            next; the time between sunrise and sunset, or from dawn to
            darkness; hence, the light; sunshine.
  
      2. The period of the earth's revolution on its axis. --
            ordinarily divided into twenty-four hours. It is measured
            by the interval between two successive transits of a
            celestial body over the same meridian, and takes a
            specific name from that of the body. Thus, if this is the
            sun, the day (the interval between two successive transits
            of the sun's center over the same meridian) is called a
            {solar day}; if it is a star, a {sidereal day}; if it is
            the moon, a {lunar day}. See {Civil day}, {Sidereal day},
            below.
  
      3. Those hours, or the daily recurring period, allotted by
            usage or law for work.
  
      4. A specified time or period; time, considered with
            reference to the existence or prominence of a person or
            thing; age; time.
  
                     A man who was great among the Hellenes of his day.
                                                                              --Jowett
                                                                              (Thucyd. )
  
                     If my debtors do not keep their day, . . . I must
                     with patience all the terms attend.   --Dryden.
  
      5. (Preceded by the) Some day in particular, as some day of
            contest, some anniversary, etc.
  
                     The field of Agincourt, Fought on the day of Crispin
                     Crispianus.                                       --Shak.
  
                     His name struck fear, his conduct won the day.
                                                                              --Roscommon.
  
      Note: Day is much used in self-explaining compounds; as,
               daybreak, daylight, workday, etc.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
  
  
      {Anniversary day}. See {Anniversary}, n.
  
      {Astronomical day}, a period equal to the mean solar day, but
            beginning at noon instead of at midnight, its twenty-four
            hours being numbered from 1 to 24; also, the sidereal day,
            as that most used by astronomers.
  
      {Born days}. See under {Born}.
  
      {Canicular days}. See {Dog day}.
  
      {Civil day}, the mean solar day, used in the ordinary
            reckoning of time, and among most modern nations beginning
            at mean midnight; its hours are usually numbered in two
            series, each from 1 to 12. This is the period recognized
            by courts as constituting a day. The Babylonians and
            Hindoos began their day at sunrise, the Athenians and Jews
            at sunset, the ancient Egyptians and Romans at midnight.
           
  
      {Day blindness}. (Med.) See {Nyctalopia}.
  
      {Day by day}, or {Day after day}, daily; every day;
            continually; without intermission of a day. See under
            {By}. [bd]Day by day we magnify thee.[b8] --Book of Common
            Prayer.
  
      {Days in bank} (Eng. Law), certain stated days for the return
            of writs and the appearance of parties; -- so called
            because originally peculiar to the Court of Common Bench,
            or Bench (bank) as it was formerly termed. --Burrill.
  
      {Day in court}, a day for the appearance of parties in a
            suit.
  
      {Days of devotion} (R. C. Ch.), certain festivals on which
            devotion leads the faithful to attend mass. --Shipley.
  
      {Days of grace}. See {Grace}.
  
      {Days of obligation} (R. C. Ch.), festival days when it is
            obligatory on the faithful to attend Mass. --Shipley.
  
      {Day owl}, (Zo[94]l.), an owl that flies by day. See {Hawk
            owl}.
  
      {Day rule} (Eng. Law), an order of court (now abolished)
            allowing a prisoner, under certain circumstances, to go
            beyond the prison limits for a single day.
  
      {Day school}, one which the pupils attend only in daytime, in
            distinction from a boarding school.
  
      {Day sight}. (Med.) See {Hemeralopia}.
  
      {Day's work} (Naut.), the account or reckoning of a ship's
            course for twenty-four hours, from noon to noon.
  
      {From day to day}, as time passes; in the course of time; as,
            he improves from day to day.
  
      {Jewish day}, the time between sunset and sunset.
  
      {Mean solar day} (Astron.), the mean or average of all the
            apparent solar days of the year.
  
      {One day}, {One of these days}, at an uncertain time, usually
            of the future, rarely of the past; sooner or later.
            [bd]Well, niece, I hope to see you one day fitted with a
            husband.[b8] --Shak.
  
      {Only from day to day}, without certainty of continuance;
            temporarily. --Bacon.
  
      {Sidereal day}, the interval between two successive transits
            of the first point of Aries over the same meridian. The
            Sidereal day is 23 h. 56 m. 4.09 s. of mean solar time.
  
      {To win the day}, to gain the victory, to be successful. --S.
            Butler.
  
      {Week day}, any day of the week except Sunday; a working day.
           
  
      {Working day}.
            (a) A day when work may be legally done, in distinction
                  from Sundays and legal holidays.
            (b) The number of hours, determined by law or custom,
                  during which a workman, hired at a stated price per
                  day, must work to be entitled to a day's pay.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Day \Day\, n. [OE. day, dai,, dei, AS. d[91]g; akin to OS., D.,
      Dan., & Sw. dag, G, tag, Icel. dagr, Goth. dags; cf. Skr. dah
      (for dhagh ?) to burn. [fb]69. Cf. {Dawn}.]
      1. The time of light, or interval between one night and the
            next; the time between sunrise and sunset, or from dawn to
            darkness; hence, the light; sunshine.
  
      2. The period of the earth's revolution on its axis. --
            ordinarily divided into twenty-four hours. It is measured
            by the interval between two successive transits of a
            celestial body over the same meridian, and takes a
            specific name from that of the body. Thus, if this is the
            sun, the day (the interval between two successive transits
            of the sun's center over the same meridian) is called a
            {solar day}; if it is a star, a {sidereal day}; if it is
            the moon, a {lunar day}. See {Civil day}, {Sidereal day},
            below.
  
      3. Those hours, or the daily recurring period, allotted by
            usage or law for work.
  
      4. A specified time or period; time, considered with
            reference to the existence or prominence of a person or
            thing; age; time.
  
                     A man who was great among the Hellenes of his day.
                                                                              --Jowett
                                                                              (Thucyd. )
  
                     If my debtors do not keep their day, . . . I must
                     with patience all the terms attend.   --Dryden.
  
      5. (Preceded by the) Some day in particular, as some day of
            contest, some anniversary, etc.
  
                     The field of Agincourt, Fought on the day of Crispin
                     Crispianus.                                       --Shak.
  
                     His name struck fear, his conduct won the day.
                                                                              --Roscommon.
  
      Note: Day is much used in self-explaining compounds; as,
               daybreak, daylight, workday, etc.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
  
  
      {Anniversary day}. See {Anniversary}, n.
  
      {Astronomical day}, a period equal to the mean solar day, but
            beginning at noon instead of at midnight, its twenty-four
            hours being numbered from 1 to 24; also, the sidereal day,
            as that most used by astronomers.
  
      {Born days}. See under {Born}.
  
      {Canicular days}. See {Dog day}.
  
      {Civil day}, the mean solar day, used in the ordinary
            reckoning of time, and among most modern nations beginning
            at mean midnight; its hours are usually numbered in two
            series, each from 1 to 12. This is the period recognized
            by courts as constituting a day. The Babylonians and
            Hindoos began their day at sunrise, the Athenians and Jews
            at sunset, the ancient Egyptians and Romans at midnight.
           
  
      {Day blindness}. (Med.) See {Nyctalopia}.
  
      {Day by day}, or {Day after day}, daily; every day;
            continually; without intermission of a day. See under
            {By}. [bd]Day by day we magnify thee.[b8] --Book of Common
            Prayer.
  
      {Days in bank} (Eng. Law), certain stated days for the return
            of writs and the appearance of parties; -- so called
            because originally peculiar to the Court of Common Bench,
            or Bench (bank) as it was formerly termed. --Burrill.
  
      {Day in court}, a day for the appearance of parties in a
            suit.
  
      {Days of devotion} (R. C. Ch.), certain festivals on which
            devotion leads the faithful to attend mass. --Shipley.
  
      {Days of grace}. See {Grace}.
  
      {Days of obligation} (R. C. Ch.), festival days when it is
            obligatory on the faithful to attend Mass. --Shipley.
  
      {Day owl}, (Zo[94]l.), an owl that flies by day. See {Hawk
            owl}.
  
      {Day rule} (Eng. Law), an order of court (now abolished)
            allowing a prisoner, under certain circumstances, to go
            beyond the prison limits for a single day.
  
      {Day school}, one which the pupils attend only in daytime, in
            distinction from a boarding school.
  
      {Day sight}. (Med.) See {Hemeralopia}.
  
      {Day's work} (Naut.), the account or reckoning of a ship's
            course for twenty-four hours, from noon to noon.
  
      {From day to day}, as time passes; in the course of time; as,
            he improves from day to day.
  
      {Jewish day}, the time between sunset and sunset.
  
      {Mean solar day} (Astron.), the mean or average of all the
            apparent solar days of the year.
  
      {One day}, {One of these days}, at an uncertain time, usually
            of the future, rarely of the past; sooner or later.
            [bd]Well, niece, I hope to see you one day fitted with a
            husband.[b8] --Shak.
  
      {Only from day to day}, without certainty of continuance;
            temporarily. --Bacon.
  
      {Sidereal day}, the interval between two successive transits
            of the first point of Aries over the same meridian. The
            Sidereal day is 23 h. 56 m. 4.09 s. of mean solar time.
  
      {To win the day}, to gain the victory, to be successful. --S.
            Butler.
  
      {Week day}, any day of the week except Sunday; a working day.
           
  
      {Working day}.
            (a) A day when work may be legally done, in distinction
                  from Sundays and legal holidays.
            (b) The number of hours, determined by law or custom,
                  during which a workman, hired at a stated price per
                  day, must work to be entitled to a day's pay.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Hour \Hour\, n. [OE. hour, our, hore, ure, OF. hore, ore, ure,
      F. heure, L. hora, fr. Gr. [?], orig., a definite space of
      time, fixed by natural laws; hence, a season, the time of the
      day, an hour. See {Year}, and cf. {Horologe}, {Horoscope}.]
      1. The twenty-fourth part of a day; sixty minutes.
  
      2. The time of the day, as expressed in hours and minutes,
            and indicated by a timepiece; as, what is the hour? At
            what hour shall we meet?
  
      3. Fixed or appointed time; conjuncture; a particular time or
            occasion; as, the hour of greatest peril; the man for the
            hour.
  
                     Woman, . . . mine hour is not yet come. --John ii.
                                                                              4.
  
                     This is your hour, and the power of darkness. --Luke
                                                                              xxii. 53.
  
      4. pl. (R. C. Ch.) Certain prayers to be repeated at stated
            times of the day, as matins and vespers.
  
      5. A measure of distance traveled.
  
                     Vilvoorden, three hours from Brussels. --J. P.
                                                                              Peters.
  
      {After hours}, after the time appointed for one's regular
            labor.
  
      {Canonical hours}. See under {Canonical}.
  
      {Hour angle} (Astron.), the angle between the hour circle
            passing through a given body, and the meridian of a place.
           
  
      {Hour circle}. (Astron.)
            (a) Any circle of the sphere passing through the two poles
                  of the equator; esp., one of the circles drawn on an
                  artificial globe through the poles, and dividing the
                  equator into spaces of 15[deg], or one hour, each.
            (b) A circle upon an equatorial telescope lying parallel
                  to the plane of the earth's equator, and graduated in
                  hours and subdivisions of hours of right ascension.
            (c) A small brass circle attached to the north pole of an
                  artificial globe, and divided into twenty-four parts
                  or hours. It is used to mark differences of time in
                  working problems on the globe.
  
      {Hour hand}, the hand or index which shows the hour on a
            timepiece.
  
      {Hour line}.
            (a) (Astron.) A line indicating the hour.
            (b) (Dialing) A line on which the shadow falls at a given
                  hour; the intersection of an hour circle which the
                  face of the dial.
  
      {Hour plate}, the plate of a timepiece on which the hours are
            marked; the dial. --Locke.
  
      {Sidereal hour}, the twenty-fourth part of a sidereal day.
  
      {Solar hour}, the twenty-fourth part of a solar day.
  
      {The small hours}, the early hours of the morning, as one
            o'clock, two o'clock, etc.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Time \Time\, n.; pl. {Times}. [OE. time, AS. t[c6]ma, akin to
      t[c6]d time, and to Icel. t[c6]mi, Dan. time an hour, Sw.
      timme. [fb]58. See {Tide}, n.]
      1. Duration, considered independently of any system of
            measurement or any employment of terms which designate
            limited portions thereof.
  
                     The time wasteth [i. e. passes away] night and day.
                                                                              --Chaucer.
  
                     I know of no ideas . . . that have a better claim to
                     be accounted simple and original than those of space
                     and time.                                          --Reid.
  
      2. A particular period or part of duration, whether past,
            present, or future; a point or portion of duration; as,
            the time was, or has been; the time is, or will be.
  
                     God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake
                     in time past unto the fathers by the prophets.
                                                                              --Heb. i. 1.
  
      3. The period at which any definite event occurred, or person
            lived; age; period; era; as, the Spanish Armada was
            destroyed in the time of Queen Elizabeth; -- often in the
            plural; as, ancient times; modern times.
  
      4. The duration of one's life; the hours and days which a
            person has at his disposal.
  
                     Believe me, your time is not your own; it belongs to
                     God, to religion, to mankind.            --Buckminster.
  
      5. A proper time; a season; an opportunity.
  
                     There is . . . a time to every purpose. --Eccl. iii.
                                                                              1.
  
                     The time of figs was not yet.            --Mark xi. 13.
  
      6. Hour of travail, delivery, or parturition.
  
                     She was within one month of her time. --Clarendon.
  
      7. Performance or occurrence of an action or event,
            considered with reference to repetition; addition of a
            number to itself; repetition; as, to double cloth four
            times; four times four, or sixteen.
  
                     Summers three times eight save one.   --Milton.
  
      8. The present life; existence in this world as contrasted
            with immortal life; definite, as contrasted with infinite,
            duration.
  
                     Till time and sin together cease.      --Keble.
  
      9. (Gram.) Tense.
  
      10. (Mus.) The measured duration of sounds; measure; tempo;
            rate of movement; rhythmical division; as, common or
            triple time; the musician keeps good time.
  
                     Some few lines set unto a solemn time. --Beau. &
                                                                              Fl.
  
      Note: Time is often used in the formation of compounds,
               mostly self-explaining; as, time-battered,
               time-beguiling, time-consecrated, time-consuming,
               time-enduring, time-killing, time-sanctioned,
               time-scorner, time-wasting, time-worn, etc.
  
      {Absolute time}, time irrespective of local standards or
            epochs; as, all spectators see a lunar eclipse at the same
            instant of absolute time.
  
      {Apparent time}, the time of day reckoned by the sun, or so
            that 12 o'clock at the place is the instant of the transit
            of the sun's center over the meridian.
  
      {Astronomical time}, mean solar time reckoned by counting the
            hours continuously up to twenty-four from one noon to the
            next.
  
      {At times}, at distinct intervals of duration; now and then;
            as, at times he reads, at other times he rides.
  
      {Civil time}, time as reckoned for the purposes of common
            life in distinct periods, as years, months, days, hours,
            etc., the latter, among most modern nations, being divided
            into two series of twelve each, and reckoned, the first
            series from midnight to noon, the second, from noon to
            midnight.
  
      {Common time} (Mil.), the ordinary time of marching, in which
            ninety steps, each twenty-eight inches in length, are
            taken in one minute.
  
      {Equation of time}. See under {Equation}, n.
  
      {In time}.
            (a) In good season; sufficiently early; as, he arrived in
                  time to see the exhibition.
            (b) After a considerable space of duration; eventually;
                  finally; as, you will in time recover your health and
                  strength.
  
      {Mean time}. See under 4th {Mean}.
  
      {Quick time} (Mil.), time of marching, in which one hundred
            and twenty steps, each thirty inches in length, are taken
            in one minute.
  
      {Sidereal time}. See under {Sidereal}.
  
      {Standard time}, the civil time that has been established by
            law or by general usage over a region or country. In
            England the standard time is Greenwich mean solar time. In
            the United States and Canada four kinds of standard time
            have been adopted by the railroads and accepted by the
            people, viz., Eastern, Central, Mountain, and Pacific
            time, corresponding severally to the mean local times of
            the 75th, 90th, 105th, and 120th meridians west from
            Greenwich, and being therefore five, six, seven, and eight
            hours slower than Greenwich time.
  
      {Time ball}, a ball arranged to drop from the summit of a
            pole, to indicate true midday time, as at Greenwich
            Observatory, England. --Nichol.
  
      {Time bargain} (Com.), a contract made for the sale or
            purchase of merchandise, or of stock in the public funds,
            at a certain time in the future.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Year \Year\, n. [OE. yer, yeer, [f4]er, AS. ge[a0]r; akin to
      OFries. i[?]r, g[?]r, D. jaar, OHG. j[be]r, G. jahr, Icel.
      [be]r, Dan. aar, Sw. [86]r, Goth. j[?]r, Gr. [?] a season of
      the year, springtime, a part of the day, an hour, [?] a year,
      Zend y[be]re year. [root]4, 279. Cf. {Hour}, {Yore}.]
      1. The time of the apparent revolution of the sun trough the
            ecliptic; the period occupied by the earth in making its
            revolution around the sun, called the astronomical year;
            also, a period more or less nearly agreeing with this,
            adopted by various nations as a measure of time, and
            called the civil year; as, the common lunar year of 354
            days, still in use among the Mohammedans; the year of 360
            days, etc. In common usage, the year consists of 365 days,
            and every fourth year (called bissextile, or leap year) of
            366 days, a day being added to February on that year, on
            account of the excess above 365 days (see {Bissextile}).
  
                     Of twenty year of age he was, I guess. --Chaucer.
  
      Note: The civil, or legal, year, in England, formerly
               commenced on the 25th of March. This practice continued
               throughout the British dominions till the year 1752.
  
      2. The time in which any planet completes a revolution about
            the sun; as, the year of Jupiter or of Saturn.
  
      3. pl. Age, or old age; as, a man in years. --Shak.
  
      {Anomalistic year}, the time of the earth's revolution from
            perihelion to perihelion again, which is 365 days, 6
            hours, 13 minutes, and 48 seconds.
  
      {A year's mind} (Eccl.), a commemoration of a deceased
            person, as by a Mass, a year after his death. Cf. {A
            month's mind}, under {Month}.
  
      {Bissextile year}. See {Bissextile}.
  
      {Canicular year}. See under {Canicular}.
  
      {Civil year}, the year adopted by any nation for the
            computation of time.
  
      {Common lunar year}, the period of 12 lunar months, or 354
            days.
  
      {Common year}, each year of 365 days, as distinguished from
            leap year.
  
      {Embolismic year}, [or] {Intercalary lunar year}, the period
            of 13 lunar months, or 384 days.
  
      {Fiscal year} (Com.), the year by which accounts are
            reckoned, or the year between one annual time of
            settlement, or balancing of accounts, and another.
  
      {Great year}. See {Platonic year}, under {Platonic}.
  
      {Gregorian year}, {Julian year}. See under {Gregorian}, and
            {Julian}.
  
      {Leap year}. See {Leap year}, in the Vocabulary.
  
      {Lunar astronomical year}, the period of 12 lunar synodical
            months, or 354 days, 8 hours, 48 minutes, 36 seconds.
  
      {Lunisolar year}. See under {Lunisolar}.
  
      {Periodical year}. See {Anomalistic year}, above.
  
      {Platonic year}, {Sabbatical year}. See under {Platonic}, and
            {Sabbatical}.
  
      {Sidereal year}, the time in which the sun, departing from
            any fixed star, returns to the same. This is 365 days, 6
            hours, 9 minutes, and 9.3 seconds.
  
      {Tropical year}. See under {Tropical}.
  
      {Year and a day} (O. Eng. Law), a time to be allowed for an
            act or an event, in order that an entire year might be
            secured beyond all question. --Abbott.
  
      {Year of grace}, any year of the Christian era; Anno Domini;
            A. D. or a. d.

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   Siderealize \Si*de"re*al*ize\, v. t.
      To elevate to the stars, or to the region of the stars; to
      etherealize.
  
               German literature transformed, siderealized, as we see
               it in Goethe, reckons Winckelmann among its initiators.
                                                                              --W. Pater.

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   Siderolite \Sid"er*o*lite\, n. [Gr. [?][?][?] iron + -lite.]
      A kind of meteorite. See under {Meteorite}.

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   Soteriology \So*te`ri*ol"o*gy\, n. [Gr. [?] safety (from [?]
      saving, [?] a savoir, [?] to save) + -logy.]
      1. A discourse on health, or the science of promoting and
            preserving health.
  
      2. (Theol.) The doctrine of salvation by Jesus Christ.

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   Souterly \Sou"ter*ly\, a.
      Of or pertaining to a cobbler or cobblers; like a cobbler;
      hence, vulgar; low. [Obs.]

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   South southerly \South` south"er*ly\ (Zo[94]l.)
      the old squaw; -- so called in imitation of its cry. Called
      also {southerly}, and {southerland}. See under {Old}.

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   Southerliness \South"er*li*ness\, n.
      The quality or state of being southerly; direction toward the
      south.

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   Southerly \South"er*ly\ (?; 277), a.
      Southern.

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   South southerly \South` south"er*ly\ (Zo[94]l.)
      the old squaw; -- so called in imitation of its cry. Called
      also {southerly}, and {southerland}. See under {Old}.

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   Southerly \South"er*ly\ (?; 277), a.
      Southern.

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   South southerly \South` south"er*ly\ (Zo[94]l.)
      the old squaw; -- so called in imitation of its cry. Called
      also {southerly}, and {southerland}. See under {Old}.

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   Brickfielder \Brick"field`er\, n. [Australia]
      1. Orig., at Sydney, a cold and violent south or southwest
            wind, rising suddenly, and regularly preceded by a hot
            wind from the north; -- now usually called {southerly
            buster}. It blew across the Brickfields, formerly so
            called, a district of Sydney, and carried clouds of dust
            into the city.
  
      2. By confusion, a midsummer hot wind from the north.

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   Lapwing \Lap"wing`\, n. [OE. lapwynke, leepwynke, AS.
      hle[a0]pewince; hle[a0]pan to leap, jump + (prob.) a word
      akin to AS. wincian to wink, E. wink, AS. wancol wavering;
      cf. G. wanken to stagger, waver. See {Leap}, and {Wink}.]
      (Zo[94]l.)
      A small European bird of the Plover family ({Vanellus
      cristatus}, or {V. vanellus}). It has long and broad wings,
      and is noted for its rapid, irregular fight, upwards,
      downwards, and in circles. Its back is coppery or greenish
      bronze. Its eggs are the [bd]plover's eggs[b8] of the London
      market, esteemed a delicacy. It is called also {peewit},
      {dastard plover}, and {wype}. The {gray lapwing} is the
      {Squatarola cinerea}.

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   Beetlehead \Bee"tle*head`\, n. [Beetle a mallet + head.]
      1. A stupid fellow; a blockhead. --Sir W. Scott.
  
      2. (Zo[94]l.) The black-bellied plover, or bullhead
            ({Squatarola helvetica}). See {Plover}.

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   Bullhead \Bull"head`\, n.
      1. (Zo[94]l.)
            (a) A fresh-water fish of many species, of the genus
                  {Uranidea}, esp. {U. gobio} of Europe, and {U.
                  Richardsoni} of the United States; -- called also
                  {miller's thumb}.
            (b) In America, several species of {Amiurus}; -- called
                  also {catfish}, {horned pout}, and {bullpout}.
            (c) A marine fish of the genus {Cottus}; the sculpin.
  
      2. (Zo[94]l.)
            (a) The black-bellied plover ({Squatarola helvetica}); --
                  called also {beetlehead}.
            (b) The golden plover.
  
      3. A stupid fellow; a lubber. [Colloq.] --Jonson.
  
      4. (Zo[94]l.) A small black water insect. --E. Phillips.
  
      {Bullhead whiting} (Zo[94]l.), the kingfish of Florida
            ({Menticirrus alburnus}).

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   Squaterole \Squat"er*ole\, n. (Zo[94]l.)
      The black-bellied plover.

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      {Blazing star}, {Double star}, {Multiple star}, {Shooting
      star}, etc. See under {Blazing}, {Double}, etc.
  
      {Nebulous star} (Astron.), a small well-defined circular
            nebula, having a bright nucleus at its center like a star.
           
  
      {Star anise} (Bot.), any plant of the genus Illicium; -- so
            called from its star-shaped capsules.
  
      {Star apple} (Bot.), a tropical American tree ({Chrysophyllum
            Cainito}), having a milky juice and oblong leaves with a
            silky-golden pubescence beneath. It bears an applelike
            fruit, the carpels of which present a starlike figure when
            cut across. The name is extended to the whole genus of
            about sixty species, and the natural order
            ({Sapotace[91]}) to which it belongs is called the
            Star-apple family.
  
      {Star conner}, one who cons, or studies, the stars; an
            astronomer or an astrologer. --Gascoigne.
  
      {Star coral} (Zo[94]l.), any one of numerous species of stony
            corals belonging to {Astr[91]a}, {Orbicella}, and allied
            genera, in which the calicles are round or polygonal and
            contain conspicuous radiating septa.
  
      {Star cucumber}. (Bot.) See under {Cucumber}.
  
      {Star flower}. (Bot.)
            (a) A plant of the genus {Ornithogalum};
                  star-of-Bethlehem.
            (b) See {Starwort}
            (b) .
            (c) An American plant of the genus {Trientalis}
                  ({Trientalis Americana}). --Gray.
  
      {Star fort} (Fort.), a fort surrounded on the exterior with
            projecting angles; -- whence the name.
  
      {Star gauge} (Ordnance), a long rod, with adjustable points
            projecting radially at its end, for measuring the size of
            different parts of the bore of a gun.
  
      {Star grass}. (Bot.)
            (a) A small grasslike plant ({Hypoxis erecta}) having
                  star-shaped yellow flowers.
            (b) The colicroot. See {Colicroot}.
  
      {Star hyacinth} (Bot.), a bulbous plant of the genus {Scilla}
            ({S. autumnalis}); -- called also {star-headed hyacinth}.
           
  
      {Star jelly} (Bot.), any one of several gelatinous plants
            ({Nostoc commune}, {N. edule}, etc.). See {Nostoc}.
  
      {Star lizard}. (Zo[94]l.) Same as {Stellion}.
  
      {Star-of-Bethlehem} (Bot.), a bulbous liliaceous plant
            ({Ornithogalum umbellatum}) having a small white starlike
            flower.
  
      {Star-of-the-earth} (Bot.), a plant of the genus {Plantago}
            ({P. coronopus}), growing upon the seashore.
  
      {Star polygon} (Geom.), a polygon whose sides cut each other
            so as to form a star-shaped figure.
  
      {Stars and Stripes}, a popular name for the flag of the
            United States, which consists of thirteen horizontal
            stripes, alternately red and white, and a union having, in
            a blue field, white stars to represent the several States,
            one for each.
  
                     With the old flag, the true American flag, the
                     Eagle, and the Stars and Stripes, waving over the
                     chamber in which we sit.                     --D. Webster.
  
      {Star showers}. See {Shooting star}, under {Shooting}.
  
      {Star thistle} (Bot.), an annual composite plant ({Centaurea
            solstitialis}) having the involucre armed with radiating
            spines.
  
      {Star wheel} (Mach.), a star-shaped disk, used as a kind of
            ratchet wheel, in repeating watches and the feed motions
            of some machines.
  
      {Star worm} (Zo[94]l.), a gephyrean.
  
      {Temporary star} (Astron.), a star which appears suddenly,
            shines for a period, and then nearly or quite disappears.
            These stars are supposed by some astronometers to be
            variable stars of long and undetermined periods.
  
      {Variable star} (Astron.), a star whose brilliancy varies
            periodically, generally with regularity, but sometimes
            irregularly; -- called {periodical star} when its changes
            occur at fixed periods.
  
      {Water star grass} (Bot.), an aquatic plant ({Schollera
            graminea}) with small yellow starlike blossoms.

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   Stellion \Stel"lion\, n. [L. stellio a newt having starlike
      spots on its back, fr. stella a star.] (Zo[94]l.)
      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}.

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      {Blazing star}, {Double star}, {Multiple star}, {Shooting
      star}, etc. See under {Blazing}, {Double}, etc.
  
      {Nebulous star} (Astron.), a small well-defined circular
            nebula, having a bright nucleus at its center like a star.
           
  
      {Star anise} (Bot.), any plant of the genus Illicium; -- so
            called from its star-shaped capsules.
  
      {Star apple} (Bot.), a tropical American tree ({Chrysophyllum
            Cainito}), having a milky juice and oblong leaves with a
            silky-golden pubescence beneath. It bears an applelike
            fruit, the carpels of which present a starlike figure when
            cut across. The name is extended to the whole genus of
            about sixty species, and the natural order
            ({Sapotace[91]}) to which it belongs is called the
            Star-apple family.
  
      {Star conner}, one who cons, or studies, the stars; an
            astronomer or an astrologer. --Gascoigne.
  
      {Star coral} (Zo[94]l.), any one of numerous species of stony
            corals belonging to {Astr[91]a}, {Orbicella}, and allied
            genera, in which the calicles are round or polygonal and
            contain conspicuous radiating septa.
  
      {Star cucumber}. (Bot.) See under {Cucumber}.
  
      {Star flower}. (Bot.)
            (a) A plant of the genus {Ornithogalum};
                  star-of-Bethlehem.
            (b) See {Starwort}
            (b) .
            (c) An American plant of the genus {Trientalis}
                  ({Trientalis Americana}). --Gray.
  
      {Star fort} (Fort.), a fort surrounded on the exterior with
            projecting angles; -- whence the name.
  
      {Star gauge} (Ordnance), a long rod, with adjustable points
            projecting radially at its end, for measuring the size of
            different parts of the bore of a gun.
  
      {Star grass}. (Bot.)
            (a) A small grasslike plant ({Hypoxis erecta}) having
                  star-shaped yellow flowers.
            (b) The colicroot. See {Colicroot}.
  
      {Star hyacinth} (Bot.), a bulbous plant of the genus {Scilla}
            ({S. autumnalis}); -- called also {star-headed hyacinth}.
           
  
      {Star jelly} (Bot.), any one of several gelatinous plants
            ({Nostoc commune}, {N. edule}, etc.). See {Nostoc}.
  
      {Star lizard}. (Zo[94]l.) Same as {Stellion}.
  
      {Star-of-Bethlehem} (Bot.), a bulbous liliaceous plant
            ({Ornithogalum umbellatum}) having a small white starlike
            flower.
  
      {Star-of-the-earth} (Bot.), a plant of the genus {Plantago}
            ({P. coronopus}), growing upon the seashore.
  
      {Star polygon} (Geom.), a polygon whose sides cut each other
            so as to form a star-shaped figure.
  
      {Stars and Stripes}, a popular name for the flag of the
            United States, which consists of thirteen horizontal
            stripes, alternately red and white, and a union having, in
            a blue field, white stars to represent the several States,
            one for each.
  
                     With the old flag, the true American flag, the
                     Eagle, and the Stars and Stripes, waving over the
                     chamber in which we sit.                     --D. Webster.
  
      {Star showers}. See {Shooting star}, under {Shooting}.
  
      {Star thistle} (Bot.), an annual composite plant ({Centaurea
            solstitialis}) having the involucre armed with radiating
            spines.
  
      {Star wheel} (Mach.), a star-shaped disk, used as a kind of
            ratchet wheel, in repeating watches and the feed motions
            of some machines.
  
      {Star worm} (Zo[94]l.), a gephyrean.
  
      {Temporary star} (Astron.), a star which appears suddenly,
            shines for a period, and then nearly or quite disappears.
            These stars are supposed by some astronometers to be
            variable stars of long and undetermined periods.
  
      {Variable star} (Astron.), a star whose brilliancy varies
            periodically, generally with regularity, but sometimes
            irregularly; -- called {periodical star} when its changes
            occur at fixed periods.
  
      {Water star grass} (Bot.), an aquatic plant ({Schollera
            graminea}) with small yellow starlike blossoms.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Stellion \Stel"lion\, n. [L. stellio a newt having starlike
      spots on its back, fr. stella a star.] (Zo[94]l.)
      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}.

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      {Blazing star}, {Double star}, {Multiple star}, {Shooting
      star}, etc. See under {Blazing}, {Double}, etc.
  
      {Nebulous star} (Astron.), a small well-defined circular
            nebula, having a bright nucleus at its center like a star.
           
  
      {Star anise} (Bot.), any plant of the genus Illicium; -- so
            called from its star-shaped capsules.
  
      {Star apple} (Bot.), a tropical American tree ({Chrysophyllum
            Cainito}), having a milky juice and oblong leaves with a
            silky-golden pubescence beneath. It bears an applelike
            fruit, the carpels of which present a starlike figure when
            cut across. The name is extended to the whole genus of
            about sixty species, and the natural order
            ({Sapotace[91]}) to which it belongs is called the
            Star-apple family.
  
      {Star conner}, one who cons, or studies, the stars; an
            astronomer or an astrologer. --Gascoigne.
  
      {Star coral} (Zo[94]l.), any one of numerous species of stony
            corals belonging to {Astr[91]a}, {Orbicella}, and allied
            genera, in which the calicles are round or polygonal and
            contain conspicuous radiating septa.
  
      {Star cucumber}. (Bot.) See under {Cucumber}.
  
      {Star flower}. (Bot.)
            (a) A plant of the genus {Ornithogalum};
                  star-of-Bethlehem.
            (b) See {Starwort}
            (b) .
            (c) An American plant of the genus {Trientalis}
                  ({Trientalis Americana}). --Gray.
  
      {Star fort} (Fort.), a fort surrounded on the exterior with
            projecting angles; -- whence the name.
  
      {Star gauge} (Ordnance), a long rod, with adjustable points
            projecting radially at its end, for measuring the size of
            different parts of the bore of a gun.
  
      {Star grass}. (Bot.)
            (a) A small grasslike plant ({Hypoxis erecta}) having
                  star-shaped yellow flowers.
            (b) The colicroot. See {Colicroot}.
  
      {Star hyacinth} (Bot.), a bulbous plant of the genus {Scilla}
            ({S. autumnalis}); -- called also {star-headed hyacinth}.
           
  
      {Star jelly} (Bot.), any one of several gelatinous plants
            ({Nostoc commune}, {N. edule}, etc.). See {Nostoc}.
  
      {Star lizard}. (Zo[94]l.) Same as {Stellion}.
  
      {Star-of-Bethlehem} (Bot.), a bulbous liliaceous plant
            ({Ornithogalum umbellatum}) having a small white starlike
            flower.
  
      {Star-of-the-earth} (Bot.), a plant of the genus {Plantago}
            ({P. coronopus}), growing upon the seashore.
  
      {Star polygon} (Geom.), a polygon whose sides cut each other
            so as to form a star-shaped figure.
  
      {Stars and Stripes}, a popular name for the flag of the
            United States, which consists of thirteen horizontal
            stripes, alternately red and white, and a union having, in
            a blue field, white stars to represent the several States,
            one for each.
  
                     With the old flag, the true American flag, the
                     Eagle, and the Stars and Stripes, waving over the
                     chamber in which we sit.                     --D. Webster.
  
      {Star showers}. See {Shooting star}, under {Shooting}.
  
      {Star thistle} (Bot.), an annual composite plant ({Centaurea
            solstitialis}) having the involucre armed with radiating
            spines.
  
      {Star wheel} (Mach.), a star-shaped disk, used as a kind of
            ratchet wheel, in repeating watches and the feed motions
            of some machines.
  
      {Star worm} (Zo[94]l.), a gephyrean.
  
      {Temporary star} (Astron.), a star which appears suddenly,
            shines for a period, and then nearly or quite disappears.
            These stars are supposed by some astronometers to be
            variable stars of long and undetermined periods.
  
      {Variable star} (Astron.), a star whose brilliancy varies
            periodically, generally with regularity, but sometimes
            irregularly; -- called {periodical star} when its changes
            occur at fixed periods.
  
      {Water star grass} (Bot.), an aquatic plant ({Schollera
            graminea}) with small yellow starlike blossoms.

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   Starless \Star"less\, a.
      Being without stars; having no stars visible; as, a starless
      night. --Milton.

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   Starlight \Star"light`\, n.
      The light given by the stars.
  
               Nor walk by moon, Or glittering starlight, without thee
               is sweet.                                                --Milton.

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   Starlight \Star"light`\, a.
      Lighted by the stars, or by the stars only; as, a starlight
      night.
  
               A starlight evening and a morning fair.   --Dryden.

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   Starlike \Star"like`\, a.
      1. Resembling a star; stellated; radiated like a star; as,
            starlike flowers.
  
      2. Shining; bright; illustrious. --Dryden.
  
                     The having turned many to righteousness shall confer
                     a starlike and immortal brightness.   --Boyle.

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   Rock \Rock\, n. [OF. roke, F. roche; cf. Armor. roc'h, and AS.
      rocc.]
      1. A large concreted mass of stony material; a large fixed
            stone or crag. See {Stone}.
  
                     Come one, come all! this rock shall fly From its
                     firm base as soon as I.                     --Sir W.
                                                                              Scott.
  
      2. (Geol.) Any natural deposit forming a part of the earth's
            crust, whether consolidated or not, including sand, earth,
            clay, etc., when in natural beds.
  
      3. That which resembles a rock in firmness; a defense; a
            support; a refuge.
  
                     The Lord is my rock, and my fortress. --2 Sam. xxii.
                                                                              2.
  
      4. Fig.: Anything which causes a disaster or wreck resembling
            the wreck of a vessel upon a rock.
  
      5. (Zo[94]l.) The striped bass. See under {Bass}.
  
      Note: This word is frequently used in the formation of
               self-explaining compounds; as, rock-bound, rock-built,
               rock-ribbed, rock-roofed, and the like.
  
      {Rock alum}. [Probably so called by confusion with F. roche a
            rock.] Same as {Roche alum}.
  
      {Rock barnacle} (Zo[94]l.), a barnacle ({Balanus balanoides})
            very abundant on rocks washed by tides.
  
      {Rock bass}. (Zo[94]l.)
            (a) The stripped bass. See under {Bass}.
            (b) The goggle-eye.
            (c) The cabrilla. Other species are also locally called
                  rock bass.
  
      {Rock builder} (Zo[94]l.), any species of animal whose
            remains contribute to the formation of rocks, especially
            the corals and Foraminifera.
  
      {Rock butter} (Min.), native alum mixed with clay and oxide
            of iron, usually in soft masses of a yellowish white
            color, occuring in cavities and fissures in argillaceous
            slate.
  
      {Rock candy}, a form of candy consisting of crystals of pure
            sugar which are very hard, whence the name.
  
      {Rock cavy}. (Zo[94]l.) See {Moco}.
  
      {Rock cod} (Zo[94]l.)
            (a) A small, often reddish or brown, variety of the cod
                  found about rocks andledges.
            (b) A California rockfish.
  
      {Rock cook}. (Zo[94]l.)
            (a) A European wrasse ({Centrolabrus exoletus}).
            (b) A rockling.
  
      {Rock cork} (Min.), a variety of asbestus the fibers of which
            are loosely interlaced. It resembles cork in its texture.
           
  
      {Rock crab} (Zo[94]l.), any one of several species of large
            crabs of the genus {Cancer}, as the two species of the New
            England coast ({C. irroratus} and {C. borealis}). See
            Illust. under {Cancer}.
  
      {Rock cress} (Bot.), a name of several plants of the cress
            kind found on rocks, as {Arabis petr[91]a}, {A. lyrata},
            etc.
  
      {Rock crystal} (Min.), limpid quartz. See {Quartz}, and under
            {Crystal}.
  
      {Rock dove} (Zo[94]l.), the rock pigeon; -- called also {rock
            doo}.
  
      {Rock drill}, an implement for drilling holes in rock; esp.,
            a machine impelled by steam or compressed air, for
            drilling holes for blasting, etc.
  
      {Rock duck} (Zo[94]l.), the harlequin duck.
  
      {Rock eel}. (Zo[94]l.) See {Gunnel}.
  
      {Rock goat} (Zo[94]l.), a wild goat, or ibex.
  
      {Rock hopper} (Zo[94]l.), a penguin of the genus
            {Catarractes}. See under {Penguin}.
  
      {Rock kangaroo}. (Zo[94]l.) See {Kangaroo}, and {Petrogale}.
           
  
      {Rock lobster} (Zo[94]l.), any one of several species of
            large spinose lobsters of the genera {Panulirus} and
            {Palinurus}. They have no large claws. Called also {spiny
            lobster}, and {sea crayfish}.
  
      {Rock meal} (Min.), a light powdery variety of calcite
            occuring as an efflorescence.
  
      {Rock milk}. (Min.) See {Agaric mineral}, under {Agaric}.
  
      {Rock moss}, a kind of lichen; the cudbear. See {Cudbear}.
  
      {Rock oil}. See {Petroleum}.
  
      {Rock parrakeet} (Zo[94]l.), a small Australian parrakeet
            ({Euphema petrophila}), which nests in holes among the
            rocks of high cliffs. Its general color is yellowish olive
            green; a frontal band and the outer edge of the wing
            quills are deep blue, and the central tail feathers bluish
            green.
  
      {Rock pigeon} (Zo[94]l.), the wild pigeon ({Columba livia})
            Of Europe and Asia, from which the domestic pigeon was
            derived. See Illust. under {Pigeon}.
  
      {Rock pipit}. (Zo[94]l.) See the Note under {Pipit}.
  
      {Rock plover}. (Zo[94]l.)
            (a) The black-bellied, or whistling, plover.
            (b) The rock snipe.
  
      {Rock ptarmigan} (Zo[94]l.), an arctic American ptarmigan
            ({Lagopus rupestris}), which in winter is white, with the
            tail and lores black. In summer the males are grayish
            brown, coarsely vermiculated with black, and have black
            patches on the back.
  
      {Rock rabbit} (Zo[94]l.), the hyrax. See {Cony}, and {Daman}.
           
  
      {Rock ruby} (Min.), a fine reddish variety of garnet.
  
      {Rock salt} (Min.), cloride of sodium (common salt) occuring
            in rocklike masses in mines; mineral salt; salt dug from
            the earth. In the United States this name is sometimes
            given to salt in large crystals, formed by evaporation
            from sea water in large basins or cavities.
  
      {Rock seal} (Zo[94]l.), the harbor seal. See {Seal}.
  
      {Rock shell} (Zo[94]l.), any species of Murex, Purpura, and
            allied genera.
  
      {Rock snake} (Zo[94]l.), any one of several large pythons;
            as, the royal rock snake ({Python regia}) of Africa, and
            the rock snake of India ({P. molurus}). The Australian
            rock snakes mostly belong to the allied genus {Morelia}.
           
  
      {Rock snipe} (Zo[94]l.), the purple sandpiper ({Tringa
            maritima}); -- called also {rock bird}, {rock plover},
            {winter snipe}.
  
      {Rock soap} (Min.), a kind of clay having a smooth, greasy
            feel, and adhering to the tongue.
  
      {Rock sparrow}. (Zo[94]l.)
            (a) Any one of several species of Old World sparrows of
                  the genus {Petronia}, as {P. stulla}, of Europe.
            (b) A North American sparrow ({Puc[91]a ruficeps}).
  
      {Rock tar}, petroleum.
  
      {Rock thrush} (Zo[94]l.), any Old World thrush of the genus
            {Monticola}, or {Petrocossyphus}; as, the European rock
            thrush ({M. saxatilis}), and the blue rock thrush of India
            ({M. cyaneus}), in which the male is blue throughout.
  
      {Rock tripe} (Bot.), a kind of lichen ({Umbilicaria
            Dillenii}) growing on rocks in the northen parts of
            America, and forming broad, flat, coriaceous, dark fuscous
            or blackish expansions. It has been used as food in cases
            of extremity.
  
      {Rock trout} (Zo[94]l.), any one of several species of marine
            food fishes of the genus {Hexagrammus}, family
            {Chirad[91]}, native of the North Pacific coasts; --
            called also {sea trout}, {boregat}, {bodieron}, and
            {starling}.
  
      {Rock warbler} (Zo[94]l.), a small Australian singing bird
            ({Origma rubricata}) which frequents rocky ravines and
            water courses; -- called also {cataract bird}.
  
      {Rock wren} (Zo[94]l.), any one of several species of wrens
            of the genus {Salpinctes}, native of the arid plains of
            Lower California and Mexico.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Starling \Star"ling\, n. [OE. sterlyng, a dim. of OE. stare, AS.
      st[91]r; akin to AS. stearn, G. star, staar, OHG. stara,
      Icel. starri, stari, Sw. stare, Dan. st[91]r, L. sturnus. Cf.
      {Stare} a starling.]
      1. (Zo[94]l.) Any passerine bird belonging to {Sturnus} and
            allied genera. The European starling ({Sturnus vulgaris})
            is dark brown or greenish black, with a metallic gloss,
            and spotted with yellowish white. It is a sociable bird,
            and builds about houses, old towers, etc. Called also
            {stare}, and {starred}. The pied starling of India is
            {Sternopastor contra}.
  
      2. (Zo[94]l.) A California fish; the rock trout.
  
      3. A structure of piles driven round the piers of a bridge
            for protection and support; -- called also {sterling}.
  
      {Rose-colored starling}. (Zo[94]l.) See {Pastor}.

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   Rock \Rock\, n. [OF. roke, F. roche; cf. Armor. roc'h, and AS.
      rocc.]
      1. A large concreted mass of stony material; a large fixed
            stone or crag. See {Stone}.
  
                     Come one, come all! this rock shall fly From its
                     firm base as soon as I.                     --Sir W.
                                                                              Scott.
  
      2. (Geol.) Any natural deposit forming a part of the earth's
            crust, whether consolidated or not, including sand, earth,
            clay, etc., when in natural beds.
  
      3. That which resembles a rock in firmness; a defense; a
            support; a refuge.
  
                     The Lord is my rock, and my fortress. --2 Sam. xxii.
                                                                              2.
  
      4. Fig.: Anything which causes a disaster or wreck resembling
            the wreck of a vessel upon a rock.
  
      5. (Zo[94]l.) The striped bass. See under {Bass}.
  
      Note: This word is frequently used in the formation of
               self-explaining compounds; as, rock-bound, rock-built,
               rock-ribbed, rock-roofed, and the like.
  
      {Rock alum}. [Probably so called by confusion with F. roche a
            rock.] Same as {Roche alum}.
  
      {Rock barnacle} (Zo[94]l.), a barnacle ({Balanus balanoides})
            very abundant on rocks washed by tides.
  
      {Rock bass}. (Zo[94]l.)
            (a) The stripped bass. See under {Bass}.
            (b) The goggle-eye.
            (c) The cabrilla. Other species are also locally called
                  rock bass.
  
      {Rock builder} (Zo[94]l.), any species of animal whose
            remains contribute to the formation of rocks, especially
            the corals and Foraminifera.
  
      {Rock butter} (Min.), native alum mixed with clay and oxide
            of iron, usually in soft masses of a yellowish white
            color, occuring in cavities and fissures in argillaceous
            slate.
  
      {Rock candy}, a form of candy consisting of crystals of pure
            sugar which are very hard, whence the name.
  
      {Rock cavy}. (Zo[94]l.) See {Moco}.
  
      {Rock cod} (Zo[94]l.)
            (a) A small, often reddish or brown, variety of the cod
                  found about rocks andledges.
            (b) A California rockfish.
  
      {Rock cook}. (Zo[94]l.)
            (a) A European wrasse ({Centrolabrus exoletus}).
            (b) A rockling.
  
      {Rock cork} (Min.), a variety of asbestus the fibers of which
            are loosely interlaced. It resembles cork in its texture.
           
  
      {Rock crab} (Zo[94]l.), any one of several species of large
            crabs of the genus {Cancer}, as the two species of the New
            England coast ({C. irroratus} and {C. borealis}). See
            Illust. under {Cancer}.
  
      {Rock cress} (Bot.), a name of several plants of the cress
            kind found on rocks, as {Arabis petr[91]a}, {A. lyrata},
            etc.
  
      {Rock crystal} (Min.), limpid quartz. See {Quartz}, and under
            {Crystal}.
  
      {Rock dove} (Zo[94]l.), the rock pigeon; -- called also {rock
            doo}.
  
      {Rock drill}, an implement for drilling holes in rock; esp.,
            a machine impelled by steam or compressed air, for
            drilling holes for blasting, etc.
  
      {Rock duck} (Zo[94]l.), the harlequin duck.
  
      {Rock eel}. (Zo[94]l.) See {Gunnel}.
  
      {Rock goat} (Zo[94]l.), a wild goat, or ibex.
  
      {Rock hopper} (Zo[94]l.), a penguin of the genus
            {Catarractes}. See under {Penguin}.
  
      {Rock kangaroo}. (Zo[94]l.) See {Kangaroo}, and {Petrogale}.
           
  
      {Rock lobster} (Zo[94]l.), any one of several species of
            large spinose lobsters of the genera {Panulirus} and
            {Palinurus}. They have no large claws. Called also {spiny
            lobster}, and {sea crayfish}.
  
      {Rock meal} (Min.), a light powdery variety of calcite
            occuring as an efflorescence.
  
      {Rock milk}. (Min.) See {Agaric mineral}, under {Agaric}.
  
      {Rock moss}, a kind of lichen; the cudbear. See {Cudbear}.
  
      {Rock oil}. See {Petroleum}.
  
      {Rock parrakeet} (Zo[94]l.), a small Australian parrakeet
            ({Euphema petrophila}), which nests in holes among the
            rocks of high cliffs. Its general color is yellowish olive
            green; a frontal band and the outer edge of the wing
            quills are deep blue, and the central tail feathers bluish
            green.
  
      {Rock pigeon} (Zo[94]l.), the wild pigeon ({Columba livia})
            Of Europe and Asia, from which the domestic pigeon was
            derived. See Illust. under {Pigeon}.
  
      {Rock pipit}. (Zo[94]l.) See the Note under {Pipit}.
  
      {Rock plover}. (Zo[94]l.)
            (a) The black-bellied, or whistling, plover.
            (b) The rock snipe.
  
      {Rock ptarmigan} (Zo[94]l.), an arctic American ptarmigan
            ({Lagopus rupestris}), which in winter is white, with the
            tail and lores black. In summer the males are grayish
            brown, coarsely vermiculated with black, and have black
            patches on the back.
  
      {Rock rabbit} (Zo[94]l.), the hyrax. See {Cony}, and {Daman}.
           
  
      {Rock ruby} (Min.), a fine reddish variety of garnet.
  
      {Rock salt} (Min.), cloride of sodium (common salt) occuring
            in rocklike masses in mines; mineral salt; salt dug from
            the earth. In the United States this name is sometimes
            given to salt in large crystals, formed by evaporation
            from sea water in large basins or cavities.
  
      {Rock seal} (Zo[94]l.), the harbor seal. See {Seal}.
  
      {Rock shell} (Zo[94]l.), any species of Murex, Purpura, and
            allied genera.
  
      {Rock snake} (Zo[94]l.), any one of several large pythons;
            as, the royal rock snake ({Python regia}) of Africa, and
            the rock snake of India ({P. molurus}). The Australian
            rock snakes mostly belong to the allied genus {Morelia}.
           
  
      {Rock snipe} (Zo[94]l.), the purple sandpiper ({Tringa
            maritima}); -- called also {rock bird}, {rock plover},
            {winter snipe}.
  
      {Rock soap} (Min.), a kind of clay having a smooth, greasy
            feel, and adhering to the tongue.
  
      {Rock sparrow}. (Zo[94]l.)
            (a) Any one of several species of Old World sparrows of
                  the genus {Petronia}, as {P. stulla}, of Europe.
            (b) A North American sparrow ({Puc[91]a ruficeps}).
  
      {Rock tar}, petroleum.
  
      {Rock thrush} (Zo[94]l.), any Old World thrush of the genus
            {Monticola}, or {Petrocossyphus}; as, the European rock
            thrush ({M. saxatilis}), and the blue rock thrush of India
            ({M. cyaneus}), in which the male is blue throughout.
  
      {Rock tripe} (Bot.), a kind of lichen ({Umbilicaria
            Dillenii}) growing on rocks in the northen parts of
            America, and forming broad, flat, coriaceous, dark fuscous
            or blackish expansions. It has been used as food in cases
            of extremity.
  
      {Rock trout} (Zo[94]l.), any one of several species of marine
            food fishes of the genus {Hexagrammus}, family
            {Chirad[91]}, native of the North Pacific coasts; --
            called also {sea trout}, {boregat}, {bodieron}, and
            {starling}.
  
      {Rock warbler} (Zo[94]l.), a small Australian singing bird
            ({Origma rubricata}) which frequents rocky ravines and
            water courses; -- called also {cataract bird}.
  
      {Rock wren} (Zo[94]l.), any one of several species of wrens
            of the genus {Salpinctes}, native of the arid plains of
            Lower California and Mexico.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Starling \Star"ling\, n. [OE. sterlyng, a dim. of OE. stare, AS.
      st[91]r; akin to AS. stearn, G. star, staar, OHG. stara,
      Icel. starri, stari, Sw. stare, Dan. st[91]r, L. sturnus. Cf.
      {Stare} a starling.]
      1. (Zo[94]l.) Any passerine bird belonging to {Sturnus} and
            allied genera. The European starling ({Sturnus vulgaris})
            is dark brown or greenish black, with a metallic gloss,
            and spotted with yellowish white. It is a sociable bird,
            and builds about houses, old towers, etc. Called also
            {stare}, and {starred}. The pied starling of India is
            {Sternopastor contra}.
  
      2. (Zo[94]l.) A California fish; the rock trout.
  
      3. A structure of piles driven round the piers of a bridge
            for protection and support; -- called also {sterling}.
  
      {Rose-colored starling}. (Zo[94]l.) See {Pastor}.

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   Starlit \Star"lit`\, a.
      Lighted by the stars; starlight.

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   Staurolite \Stau"ro*lite\, n. [Gr. [?] a cross + -lite.] (Min.)
      A mineral of a brown to black color occurring in prismatic
      crystals, often twinned so as to form groups resembling a
      cross. It is a silicate of aluminia and iron, and is
      generally found imbedded in mica schist. Called also
      {granatite}, and {grenatite}.

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   Staurolitic \Stau`ro*lit"ic\, a. (Min.)
      Of or pertaining to staurolite; resembling or containing
      staurolite.

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   Stearolic \Ste`a*rol"ic\, a. [Stearic + oleic + -ic.] (Chem.)
      Of, pertaining to, or designating, an acid of the acetylene
      series, isologous with stearis acid, and obtained, as a white
      crystalline substance, from ole[8b]c acid.

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   Stearyl \Ste"a*ryl\, n. [Stearic + -yl.] (Chem.)
      The hypothetical radical characteristic of stearic acid.

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   Steerless \Steer"less\, a.
      Having no rudder. [Obs.] --Chaucer.

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   Steerling \Steer"ling\, n.
      A young small steer.

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   Stereoelectric \Ste`re*o*e*lec"tric\, a. [Stereo- + electric.]
      (Physics)
      Of or pertaining to the generation of electricity by means of
      solid bodies alone; as, a stereoelectric current is one
      obtained by means of solids, without any liquid.

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   Jewfish \Jew"fish`\, n. (Zo[94]l.)
      1. A very large serranoid fish ({Promicrops itaiara}) of
            Florida and the Gulf of Mexico. It often reaches the
            weight of five hundred pounds. Its color is olivaceous or
            yellowish, with numerous brown spots. Called also {guasa},
            and {warsaw}.
  
      2. A similar gigantic fish ({Stereolepis gigas}) of Southern
            California, valued as a food fish.
  
      3. The black grouper of Florida and Texas.
  
      4. A large herringlike fish; the tarpum.

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   Sterile \Ster"ile\, a. [F. st[82]rile, L. sterilis, akin to Gr.
      stereo`s stiff, solid, stei^ros barren, stei^ra a cow that
      has not calved, Goth. stair[d3], fem., barren. See {Stare} to
      gaze.]
      1. Producing little or no crop; barren; unfruitful;
            unproductive; not fertile; as, sterile land; a sterile
            desert; a sterile year.
  
      2. (Biol.)
            (a) Incapable of reproduction; unfitted for reproduction
                  of offspring; not able to germinate or bear fruit;
                  unfruitful; as, a sterile flower, which bears only
                  stamens.
            (b) Free from reproductive spores or germs; as, a sterile
                  fluid.
  
      3. Fig.: Barren of ideas; destitute of sentiment; as, a
            sterile production or author.

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   Sterility \Ste*ril"i*ty\, n. [L. sterilitas: cf. F.
      st[82]rilit[82].]
      1. The quality or condition of being sterile.
  
      2. (Biol.) Quality of being sterile; infecundity; also, the
            state of being free from germs or spores.

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   Sterilization \Ster`il*i*za"tion\, n. (Biol.)
      The act or process of sterilizing, or rendering sterile;
      also, the state of being sterile.

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   Sterilize \Ster"il*ize\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Sterilized}; p.
      pr. & vb. n. {Sterilizing}.] [Cf. F. st[82]riliser.]
      1. To make sterile or unproductive; to impoverish, as land;
            to exhaust of fertility. [R.] [bd]Sterilizing the
            earth.[b8] --Woodward.
  
      2. (Biol.)
            (a) To deprive of the power of reproducing; to render
                  incapable of germination or fecundation; to make
                  sterile.
            (b) To destroy all spores or germs in (an organic fluid or
                  mixture), as by heat, so as to prevent the development
                  of bacterial or other organisms.

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   Sterilize \Ster"il*ize\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Sterilized}; p.
      pr. & vb. n. {Sterilizing}.] [Cf. F. st[82]riliser.]
      1. To make sterile or unproductive; to impoverish, as land;
            to exhaust of fertility. [R.] [bd]Sterilizing the
            earth.[b8] --Woodward.
  
      2. (Biol.)
            (a) To deprive of the power of reproducing; to render
                  incapable of germination or fecundation; to make
                  sterile.
            (b) To destroy all spores or germs in (an organic fluid or
                  mixture), as by heat, so as to prevent the development
                  of bacterial or other organisms.

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   Sterilizer \Ster"il*i`zer\, n.
      One that sterilizes anything; specif., an apparatus for
      sterilizing an organic fluid or mixture.

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   Sterilize \Ster"il*ize\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Sterilized}; p.
      pr. & vb. n. {Sterilizing}.] [Cf. F. st[82]riliser.]
      1. To make sterile or unproductive; to impoverish, as land;
            to exhaust of fertility. [R.] [bd]Sterilizing the
            earth.[b8] --Woodward.
  
      2. (Biol.)
            (a) To deprive of the power of reproducing; to render
                  incapable of germination or fecundation; to make
                  sterile.
            (b) To destroy all spores or germs in (an organic fluid or
                  mixture), as by heat, so as to prevent the development
                  of bacterial or other organisms.

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   Sterlet \Ster"let\, n. [Russ. sterliade.] (Zo[94]l.)
      A small sturgeon ({Acipenser ruthenus}) found in the Caspian
      Sea and its rivers, and highly esteemed for its flavor. The
      finest caviare is made from its roe.

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   Starling \Star"ling\, n. [OE. sterlyng, a dim. of OE. stare, AS.
      st[91]r; akin to AS. stearn, G. star, staar, OHG. stara,
      Icel. starri, stari, Sw. stare, Dan. st[91]r, L. sturnus. Cf.
      {Stare} a starling.]
      1. (Zo[94]l.) Any passerine bird belonging to {Sturnus} and
            allied genera. The European starling ({Sturnus vulgaris})
            is dark brown or greenish black, with a metallic gloss,
            and spotted with yellowish white. It is a sociable bird,
            and builds about houses, old towers, etc. Called also
            {stare}, and {starred}. The pied starling of India is
            {Sternopastor contra}.
  
      2. (Zo[94]l.) A California fish; the rock trout.
  
      3. A structure of piles driven round the piers of a bridge
            for protection and support; -- called also {sterling}.
  
      {Rose-colored starling}. (Zo[94]l.) See {Pastor}.

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   Sterling \Ster"ling\, a.
      1. Belonging to, or relating to, the standard British money
            of account, or the British coinage; as, a pound sterling;
            a shilling sterling; a penny sterling; -- now chiefly
            applied to the lawful money of England; but sterling cost,
            sterling value, are used. [bd]With sterling money.[b8]
            --Shak.
  
      2. Genuine; pure; of excellent quality; conforming to the
            highest standard; of full value; as, a work of sterling
            merit; a man of sterling good sense.

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   Sterling \Ster"ling\, n. (Engin.)
      Same as {Starling}, 3.

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   Sterling \Ster"ling\, n. [OE. sterlynge, starling, for
      easterling, LL. esterlingus, probably from Easterling, once
      the popular name of German trades in England, whose money was
      of the purest quality: cf. MHG. sterlink a certain coin. Cf.
      {East}. [bd]Certain merchants of Norwaie, Denmarke, and of
      others those parties, called Ostomanni, or (as in our vulgar
      language we tearme them), easterlings, because they lie east
      in respect of us.[b8] --Holinshed. [bd]In the time of . . .
      King Richard the First, monie coined in the east parts of
      Germanie began to be of especiall request in England for the
      puritie thereof, and was called Easterling monie, as all
      inhabitants of those parts were called Easterlings, and
      shortly after some of that countrie, skillful in mint matters
      and allaies, were sent for into this realme to bring the
      coine to perfection; which since that time was called of them
      sterling, for Easterling.[b8] --Camden. [bd]Four thousand
      pound of sterlings.[b8] --R. of Gloucester.]
      1. Any English coin of standard value; coined money.
  
                     So that ye offer nobles or sterlings. --Chaucer.
  
                     And Roman wealth in English sterling view.
                                                                              --Arbuthnot.
  
      2. A certain standard of quality or value for money.
  
                     Sterling was the known and approved standard in
                     England, in all probability, from the beginning of
                     King Henry the Second's reign.            --S. M. Leake.

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   Starling \Star"ling\, n. [OE. sterlyng, a dim. of OE. stare, AS.
      st[91]r; akin to AS. stearn, G. star, staar, OHG. stara,
      Icel. starri, stari, Sw. stare, Dan. st[91]r, L. sturnus. Cf.
      {Stare} a starling.]
      1. (Zo[94]l.) Any passerine bird belonging to {Sturnus} and
            allied genera. The European starling ({Sturnus vulgaris})
            is dark brown or greenish black, with a metallic gloss,
            and spotted with yellowish white. It is a sociable bird,
            and builds about houses, old towers, etc. Called also
            {stare}, and {starred}. The pied starling of India is
            {Sternopastor contra}.
  
      2. (Zo[94]l.) A California fish; the rock trout.
  
      3. A structure of piles driven round the piers of a bridge
            for protection and support; -- called also {sterling}.
  
      {Rose-colored starling}. (Zo[94]l.) See {Pastor}.

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   Sterling \Ster"ling\, a.
      1. Belonging to, or relating to, the standard British money
            of account, or the British coinage; as, a pound sterling;
            a shilling sterling; a penny sterling; -- now chiefly
            applied to the lawful money of England; but sterling cost,
            sterling value, are used. [bd]With sterling money.[b8]
            --Shak.
  
      2. Genuine; pure; of excellent quality; conforming to the
            highest standard; of full value; as, a work of sterling
            merit; a man of sterling good sense.

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   Sterling \Ster"ling\, n. (Engin.)
      Same as {Starling}, 3.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Sterling \Ster"ling\, n. [OE. sterlynge, starling, for
      easterling, LL. esterlingus, probably from Easterling, once
      the popular name of German trades in England, whose money was
      of the purest quality: cf. MHG. sterlink a certain coin. Cf.
      {East}. [bd]Certain merchants of Norwaie, Denmarke, and of
      others those parties, called Ostomanni, or (as in our vulgar
      language we tearme them), easterlings, because they lie east
      in respect of us.[b8] --Holinshed. [bd]In the time of . . .
      King Richard the First, monie coined in the east parts of
      Germanie began to be of especiall request in England for the
      puritie thereof, and was called Easterling monie, as all
      inhabitants of those parts were called Easterlings, and
      shortly after some of that countrie, skillful in mint matters
      and allaies, were sent for into this realme to bring the
      coine to perfection; which since that time was called of them
      sterling, for Easterling.[b8] --Camden. [bd]Four thousand
      pound of sterlings.[b8] --R. of Gloucester.]
      1. Any English coin of standard value; coined money.
  
                     So that ye offer nobles or sterlings. --Chaucer.
  
                     And Roman wealth in English sterling view.
                                                                              --Arbuthnot.
  
      2. A certain standard of quality or value for money.
  
                     Sterling was the known and approved standard in
                     England, in all probability, from the beginning of
                     King Henry the Second's reign.            --S. M. Leake.

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   Stirless \Stir"less\, a.
      Without stirring; very quiet; motionless. [bd]Lying helpless
      and stirless.[b8] --Hare.

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   Storial \Sto"ri*al\, a.
      Historical. [Obs.] --Chaucer.

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   Strale \Strale\, n.
      Pupil of the eye. [Prov. Eng.]

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Stray \Stray\, a. [Cf. OF. estrai[82], p. p. of estraier. See
      {Stray}, v. i., and cf. {Astray}, {Estray}.]
      Having gone astray; strayed; wandering; as, a strayhorse or
      sheep.
  
      {Stray line} (Naut.), that portion of the log line which is
            veered from the reel to allow the chip to get clear of the
            stern eddies before the glass is turned.
  
      {Stray mark} (Naut.), the mark indicating the end of the
            stray line.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Streel \Streel\, v. i. [Cf. {Stroll}.]
      To trail along; to saunter or be drawn along, carelessly,
      swaying in a kind of zigzag motion. [Colloq.] --Thackeray.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Strelitz \Strel"itz\, n. sing. & pl. [Russ. strieli[82]ts' a
      shooter, archer.]
      A soldier of the ancient Muscovite guard or Russian standing
      army; also, the guard itself.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Stroll \Stroll\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Strolled}; p. pr. & vb. n.
      {Strolling}.] [Cf. Dan. stryge to stroll, Sw. stryka to
      stroke, to ramble, dial. Sw. strykel one who strolls about,
      Icel. strj[?]ka to stroke, D. struikelen to stumble, G.
      straucheln. Cf. {Struggle}.]
      To wander on foot; to ramble idly or leisurely; to rove.
  
               These mothers stroll to beg sustenance for their
               helpless infants.                                    --Swift.
  
      Syn: To rove; roam; range; stray.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Stroll \Stroll\, n.
      A wandering on foot; an idle and leisurely walk; a ramble.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Stroll \Stroll\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Strolled}; p. pr. & vb. n.
      {Strolling}.] [Cf. Dan. stryge to stroll, Sw. stryka to
      stroke, to ramble, dial. Sw. strykel one who strolls about,
      Icel. strj[?]ka to stroke, D. struikelen to stumble, G.
      straucheln. Cf. {Struggle}.]
      To wander on foot; to ramble idly or leisurely; to rove.
  
               These mothers stroll to beg sustenance for their
               helpless infants.                                    --Swift.
  
      Syn: To rove; roam; range; stray.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Stroller \Stroll"er\, n.
      One who strolls; a vagrant.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Stroll \Stroll\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Strolled}; p. pr. & vb. n.
      {Strolling}.] [Cf. Dan. stryge to stroll, Sw. stryka to
      stroke, to ramble, dial. Sw. strykel one who strolls about,
      Icel. strj[?]ka to stroke, D. struikelen to stumble, G.
      straucheln. Cf. {Struggle}.]
      To wander on foot; to ramble idly or leisurely; to rove.
  
               These mothers stroll to beg sustenance for their
               helpless infants.                                    --Swift.
  
      Syn: To rove; roam; range; stray.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Strowl \Strowl\, v. i.
      To stroll. [Obs.]

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Strull \Strull\, n.
      A bar so placed as to resist weight.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Styrol \Sty"rol\, n. [Styrax + L. oleum oil.] (Chem.)
      See {Styrolene}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Styrolene \Sty"ro*lene\, n. (Chem.)
      An unsaturated hydrocarbon, {C8H8}, obtained by the
      distillation of storax, by the decomposition of cinnamic
      acid, and by the condensation of acetylene, as a fragrant,
      aromatic, mobile liquid; -- called also {phenyl ethylene},
      {vinyl benzene}, {styrol}, {styrene}, and {cinnamene}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Styrol \Sty"rol\, n. [Styrax + L. oleum oil.] (Chem.)
      See {Styrolene}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Styrolene \Sty"ro*lene\, n. (Chem.)
      An unsaturated hydrocarbon, {C8H8}, obtained by the
      distillation of storax, by the decomposition of cinnamic
      acid, and by the condensation of acetylene, as a fragrant,
      aromatic, mobile liquid; -- called also {phenyl ethylene},
      {vinyl benzene}, {styrol}, {styrene}, and {cinnamene}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Styrolene \Sty"ro*lene\, n. (Chem.)
      An unsaturated hydrocarbon, {C8H8}, obtained by the
      distillation of storax, by the decomposition of cinnamic
      acid, and by the condensation of acetylene, as a fragrant,
      aromatic, mobile liquid; -- called also {phenyl ethylene},
      {vinyl benzene}, {styrol}, {styrene}, and {cinnamene}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Styryl \Sty"ryl\, n. [Styrax + -yl.] (Chem.)
      A hypothetical radical found in certain derivatives of
      styrolene and cinnamic acid; -- called also {cinnyl}, or
      {cinnamyl}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Sudoral \Su"dor*al\, a. [L. sudor.]
      Of or pertaining to sweat; as, sudoral eruptions.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Sutural \Su"tur*al\, a. [Cf. F. sutural, NL. suturals.]
      1. Of or pertaining to a suture, or seam.
  
      2. (Bot.) Taking place at a suture; as, a sutural
            de[?]iscence.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Suturally \Su"tur*al*ly\, adv.
      In a sutural manner.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Syderolite \Syd"er*o*lite\, n.
      A kind of Bohemian earthenware resembling the Wedgwood ware.

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Sedro Woolley, WA
      Zip code(s): 98284

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Sedro-Woolley, WA (city, FIPS 63210)
      Location: 48.50817 N, 122.23501 W
      Population (1990): 6031 (2470 housing units)
      Area: 8.6 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   South Royalton, VT
      Zip code(s): 05068

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Star Lake, NY (CDP, FIPS 70849)
      Location: 44.16017 N, 75.03754 W
      Population (1990): 1092 (580 housing units)
      Area: 11.5 sq km (land), 1.0 sq km (water)
      Zip code(s): 13690

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Starlight, PA
      Zip code(s): 18461

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Sterling, AK (CDP, FIPS 73070)
      Location: 60.51518 N, 150.79705 W
      Population (1990): 3802 (2179 housing units)
      Area: 220.9 sq km (land), 7.3 sq km (water)
      Zip code(s): 99672
   Sterling, CO (city, FIPS 73935)
      Location: 40.62649 N, 103.19914 W
      Population (1990): 10362 (4791 housing units)
      Area: 14.0 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
      Zip code(s): 80751
   Sterling, CT
      Zip code(s): 06377
   Sterling, ID
      Zip code(s): 83210
   Sterling, IL (city, FIPS 72546)
      Location: 41.79823 N, 89.69153 W
      Population (1990): 15132 (6364 housing units)
      Area: 10.5 sq km (land), 0.5 sq km (water)
      Zip code(s): 61081
   Sterling, KS (city, FIPS 68200)
      Location: 38.20916 N, 98.20578 W
      Population (1990): 2115 (878 housing units)
      Area: 3.2 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
      Zip code(s): 67579
   Sterling, MA
      Zip code(s): 01564
   Sterling, MI (village, FIPS 76420)
      Location: 44.03213 N, 84.02031 W
      Population (1990): 520 (190 housing units)
      Area: 2.6 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
      Zip code(s): 48659
   Sterling, ND
      Zip code(s): 58572
   Sterling, NE (village, FIPS 47150)
      Location: 40.46189 N, 96.37806 W
      Population (1990): 451 (217 housing units)
      Area: 1.0 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
      Zip code(s): 68443
   Sterling, NY
      Zip code(s): 13156
   Sterling, OH
      Zip code(s): 44276
   Sterling, OK (town, FIPS 70150)
      Location: 34.74952 N, 98.17244 W
      Population (1990): 684 (337 housing units)
      Area: 2.1 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
   Sterling, PA
      Zip code(s): 18463
   Sterling, UT (town, FIPS 72940)
      Location: 39.19430 N, 111.69087 W
      Population (1990): 191 (77 housing units)
      Area: 0.6 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
   Sterling, VA (CDP, FIPS 75376)
      Location: 39.00133 N, 77.40830 W
      Population (1990): 20512 (7344 housing units)
      Area: 17.2 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
      Zip code(s): 22170

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Sterling City, TX (city, FIPS 70232)
      Location: 31.83895 N, 100.98548 W
      Population (1990): 1096 (465 housing units)
      Area: 2.7 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
      Zip code(s): 76951

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Sterling County, TX (county, FIPS 431)
      Location: 31.82414 N, 101.04506 W
      Population (1990): 1438 (623 housing units)
      Area: 2391.7 sq km (land), 0.3 sq km (water)

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Sterling Heights, MI (city, FIPS 76460)
      Location: 42.58004 N, 83.03053 W
      Population (1990): 117810 (42317 housing units)
      Area: 94.9 sq km (land), 0.1 sq km (water)
      Zip code(s): 48310, 48312, 48313, 48314

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Sterlington, LA (town, FIPS 73255)
      Location: 32.69062 N, 92.06479 W
      Population (1990): 1140 (489 housing units)
      Area: 5.9 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
   Sterlington, NY
      Zip code(s): 10974

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Stirling, NJ
      Zip code(s): 07980

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Sutherland, IA (city, FIPS 76485)
      Location: 42.97238 N, 95.49525 W
      Population (1990): 714 (341 housing units)
      Area: 2.3 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
      Zip code(s): 51058
   Sutherland, NE (village, FIPS 47920)
      Location: 41.15753 N, 101.12654 W
      Population (1990): 1032 (459 housing units)
      Area: 2.0 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
      Zip code(s): 69165
   Sutherland, VA
      Zip code(s): 23885

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Sutherland Sprin, TX
      Zip code(s): 78161

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Sutherlin, OR (city, FIPS 71650)
      Location: 43.38860 N, 123.31499 W
      Population (1990): 5020 (2030 housing units)
      Area: 13.1 sq km (land), 0.2 sq km (water)
      Zip code(s): 97479
   Sutherlin, VA
      Zip code(s): 24594

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
   StarLISP
  
      {*LISP}
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
   Sterling Software, Inc.
  
      A software company which was bought out by {Computer
      Associates International, Inc.}
  
      {Acquisition (http://ca.com/acq/sterling/)}.
  
      (2002-04-20)
  
  
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