Steer the bounding bark with steady toil,

In my conduct shall your ladies come, When the storm chickens and the billow's boil. From whom you now must steal and take no

Pope.
leave.

Sbakspeare. 3. Not wavering ; not fickle ; not change- Others, weary of the long journey, lingering able with regard to resolution or atten.

behind, were stolen away; and they which were tion.

left, moiled with dirt and mire. Knoller,

A bride
Now clear I understand

Should vanish from her clothes into her bed, What oft my steadiest thoughts have search'd in

As souls from bodies stcal, and are not spy'd. vain. Milton.

Dono:. Steady to my principles, and not dispirited with my afflictions, I have, by the blessing of

The vapour of charcoal hath killed many; and God, overcome all difficulties.

it is the more dangerous, because it cometh

Dryder. A clear sight keeps the understanding steady.

without any ill smell, and stealeth on by little and little.

Bacon Locke.

A soft and solemn breathing sound STEAK. n. s. (styck, Islandick and Erse, a Rose like a steam of rich distill'd perfumes,

piece; steka, Swedish, to boil.) A slice And stole upon the air, that even silence of fiesh broiled or fried ; a collop.

Was took ere she was ware.

Milton. The surgeon protested he had cured him very

As wise artists mix their colours so, well, and offered to eat the first stake of him. That by degrees they from each other go;

Tatler, Black steals unheeded from the neighb'ring white, Fair ladies who contriva

So on us stole our blessed change. Dryden. To feast on ale and steaks.

Swift. At a time when he had no steward, he stole T. STEAL. v. a. preterit stole, participle

away.

Swift.

Now his fierce eyes with sparkling fury glow; pass. stolen. [rzelan, Sax. stelen, Dut.]

Now sighs steal out, and tears begin to dow. 1. To take by theft; to take clandestine.

Pope. ly; to take without right. To steal, ge

2. To practise theft ; to play the thief; to nerally implies secrecy; to rob, either

take any thing thievishly; to have the secrecy or violence.

babit of thieving. Thou ran'st a tilt in honour of my love,

Stealing is the taking from another what is And stoľst away the ladies hearts of France.

his, without his knowledge or allowance. Locke.

Shakspeare. The good humour is to steal at a minute's There are some shrewd contents in yon same rest.-Convey, the wise it call; steal! a fico for paper,

the phrase !

Sbakspeare. That steal the colour from Bassanio's cheek; Some dear friend dead.

Sbakspeare. STEA'LER. n. s. [from steal.] One who How should we steal silver or gold ? Genesis. steals ; a thief.

A schoolboy finding a bird's nest, shews it his The transgression is in the stealer. Sbaksp. companion, and he stcals it. Sbakspeare.

(from stealing.) 2. To withdraw or convey without notice. STEA'LINGLY. adv. The law of England never was properly ap

Slily; by invisible motion; by secret plied to the Irish, by a purposed plot of govern

practice. ment, but as they could insinuate and steal them- They were diverse motions, they did so stealselves under the same by their huinble carriage ingly slip one into another, as the latter part was and submission.

Spenser. ever in hand before the eye could discern the Let's shift away; there's warrant in that former was ended.

Sidney theft Which steals itself when there's no mercy left. STEALTH. n. s. [from steal.]

Sbakspeare, 1. The act of stealing ; theft. 3. To gain or effect by private and gra

The owner proveth the stealth to have been dual means.

committed upon hin by such an outlaw, and to

have been found in the possession of the priYoung Lorenzo

Spenser. Stele her soul with many vows of faith,

The stealth of mutual entertainment And ne'er a true one.

Shakspeare.

With character too gross is written on Juliet. Were it not that my fellow-schoolmaster

Sbakspeare. Doth watch Bianca's sceps so narrowly,

In the secret dark that none reproves, 'I were good to steal our marriage. Sbakspeare. They hate being alone, for fear some aftright

Their pretty stealtbs shall work, and snares shall spread.

Spenser. ing apprehensions should steal or force their way

The gods persuaded Mercury,
Calamy.

Their good observer, to this stealtb. Chapman Variety of objects has a tendency to steal away the mind from its steady pursuit of any

2. The thing stolen. subject.

Watts.

On his back a heavy load he bare TO STEAL. V

Of nightly stealths, and pillage several. V. 7. 1. To withdraw privily; to pass silently:

Fairy Queen.

Store of cabbins are but sluttish dens, that breed Fixt of mind to avoid further entreaty, and to sickness in peace, serving to cover stealths, and by all company, one night she stole away. Sidney. My lord of Amiens and myself

in fight are dangerous to tear men with splinters.

Raleigh, Did steal behind him as he lay along

3. Secret act; clandestine practice. By

Slakspears.
I cannot chink it,

stealth, means secretly; clandestinely; That he would steal away so guilty like,

with desire of concealment: but, like Seeing you coming.

Sbakspeare:

stenl, is often used in a good sense, The most peaceable way, if you take a thief, The wisdom of the same spirit borrowed from is to let him shew what he is, and steal out of melody that pleasure, which, mingled with hea

Shakspeare. venly mysteries, causeth the smoothness and At time that lovers flights doth still conceal, softness of that, which toucheth the car, to conThrough Athens' gate have we devis’d to steal. vey, as it were by stealth, the treasure of good Sbakspeare. things into man's mind,

Hooker.

Under an oak.

your company.

steann.

I feel this youth's perfections,

Who like our active African instructs With an invisible and subtile stealth,

The fiery siced, and trains him to his hand ? To creep in at mine eyes. Sbaispeare.

Addison. The monarch, blinded with desire of wealth, See! the bold youth strain up the threat'ning With stoel invades his brother's life by stealth

stecp; Before the sacred altar.

Dryden. Hang o'er their coursers heads with eager speed, Let humble Allen, with an aukward shame, And earth rolls back beneath the flying steed. Do good by stealtb, and blush to find it fame,

Pope. Pope.

Some nymphs affect a more heroic breed, STE A’LTHY. adj. [from stealth.] Done

And vault from hunters to the manag'd steed. clandestinely; performed by stealth.

1 oung. Now wither'd murder, with his stealthy pace, STEEL. n. s. (rral, Sax. stael, Dutch.] Moves like a ghost.

Sbakspeare. 1. A kind of iron, refined and purified by STEAM. n. s. (rreme, Sax.] The smoke

the fire with other ingredients, which or vapour of any thing moist and hot.

renders it white, and its grain closer and Sweet odours are, in such a company as there

finer than cominon iron.

Steel, of all is steam and heat, things of great refreshment.

Bacon.

other metals, is that susceptible of the His offering soon propitious fire from heaven greatest degree of hardness, when well Consum'd, with nimble glance and grateful tempered ; whence its great use in the

Milton.

making of tools and instruments of all While the temple smoak’d with hallow'd steam,

kinds.

Chambers They wash the virgin.

Dryden.

Steel is made from the purest and softest iron, Such the figure of a feast, Which, were it not for plenty and for steam,

by keeping it red hot, stratified with coal-dust

and wood-ashes, or other substances that abound Might be resembled to a sick man's dream.

King.

in the phlogiston, for several hours in a close furnace.

Hill Some it bears in steams up into the air, in such

At her back a bow and quiver gay, a quantity as to be manifest to the smell, especially the sulphur.

Woodward.

Stuff’d with steel-headed dants, wherewith she

quell'd TO STEAM. v. n. [rreman, Sax.)

The savage beasts in her victorious play. Speas. 1. To smoke or vapour with moist heat. With mighty bars of long-enduring brass Let the crude humours dance

The steel-bound doors and iron gates he ties. In heated brass, steaming with fire intense.

Fairfax. Pbilips.

They are not charm'd against your points of 2. To send up vapours.

steel nor iron fram'd.

Chapman. Ye mists that rise from steaming lake. Milt.

A looking-glass, with the steel bebind, looketh whiter than glass simple.

Bacon. See! see! my brother's ghost hangs hovering

Diamonds, though hard bodies, will not readils there

strike fire with steel, much less with one another; O'er his warm blood, that steams into the air.

nor a fiint easily with a steel, if they both be wet;

Dryden. O wretched we! Why were we hurried down

the sparks being then quenched in thcir eruption.

Brown. This lubrick and adulr'rate age;

Both were of shining sterl, and wrought so pure, Nay, added fat pollutions of our own, T'increase the steaming ordures of the stage?

As might the strokes of two such arms endure.

Dryden. Dryder. 3. To pass in vapours.

2. It is often used metonymically for weaScarcely had Phæbus in the gloomy east

pons or armour. Got harnessed his fiery-footed team,

Brave Macbeth with his brandish'd steel, Ne reár'd above the earth his flaming crest,

Which smok'd with bloody execution, When the last deadly smoke aloft did steam.

Carv'd out his passage till he had fac'd the slave. Sperse?

Shakspeare: The dissolved amber plainly swam like a thin

Polish'd steel from far severely shines. "Dryd.

He, sudden as the word, film upon the liquor, whence it steamed away into the air.

Boyle.

In proud Plexippus' bosom plung'd the sword: These minerals not only issue out at these

Toxeus amaz’d, and with amazement slou, larger exits, but steam forth through the pores of

Stood doubting; and, while doubting thus he the earth, occasioning sulphureous and other of

stood, fensive stenches.

Woodward.
Feceiv'd the steel bath'd in his brother's blood.

Dryden. STEAN for stone.

Spenser. 3. Chalyberte medicines. STEATO'MA. n. s. [fie7wpear] A species After relaxing, steel strengthens the solids, and of wen.

is likewise an antiacid. If the matter in a wen resembles milk-curds, 4. It is used proverbially for hardness: the tumour is called atheroma; if like honey,

as, heads of steel. meliceris; and if composed of fat, steutoma.

Sbarp. STEEL. adj. Made of steel.

A lance then took he, with a keene steele head, STEED. n. s. [sreda, Sax.] A horse for

To be his kcepe oft both'gainst men and dogges. state or war. My noble steed' I give him,

To Steel. v. a. (from the noun.] With all his trim belonging. Sbakspeare.

1. To point or edge with steel. Impresses quaint, caparisons and steeds. Milt.

Add proof unto mine armour with thy prayers, Stout are our men, and warlike are our steeds.

And with thy blússings steci my lance's point. Waller.

Slukspearl. She thought herself the trembling dame who fied,

2. To make hard or firm. It is used, if it And him the grisly ghost that spurr'd th' infer

be applied to the mind, very often in 2 nal stced.

Dryden.

bad sense.

Årbutánct.

Cbapunan.

3

a

Lies well steeld with weighty arguments.

TO STEEP. v. a. (stippen, Dutch.) To

Shakspeare. soak; to macerate ; to imbue ; to dip. So service shall with steeled fingers toil,

When his brother saw the red blood trail And labour shall refresh itself with hope. Sbaks. Adown so fast, and all his armour stoep, From his metal was his party steeld;

For very fellness loud he 'gan to weep. Spenser. Which, once in him rebaced, all the rest

He, like an adder lurking in the weeds, Turn'd on chemselves, like dull and heavy lead. His wand'ring thought in deep desire does sisepi

Sbakspeare. And hio frail eye with spoil of beauty.feeds. O God of battles! steel my soldiers hearts,

Spenser. Poseess them not with tear. Sbakspeare. A napkin steeped in the harmless blood

Why will you fight against so sweet a passion, Of sweet young Rutland. Sbakspeare. And steel your heart to such a world of charms?

The conquering wine hath steep'd our sense

Addison. In soft and delicate Lethe. Shakspeure. Man, foolish man!

Many dream not to find, neither deserve, Scarce know'st thou how thyself began;

And yet are steep'd in favours. Sbakspears. Yet, steeld with study'd boldness, thou dar'st try Four days will quickly steep themselves in *To send thy doubted reason's dazzled eye

night; Thro' the mysterious gulph of vast immensity. Pour nights will quickly dream away the time. Prior.

Shakspeare. Let the steelTurk be deaf to matrons cries, Most of the steepings are cheap things, and See virgins ravish'd with relentless eyes. Tickel. the goodness of the crop is a' great matter of So perish all whose breasts the furies steeld, gain.

Bacon, And curs'd with hearts unknowing how to Whole droves of minds are by the driving god yield.

Pope. Compellid to drink the deep Lethean flood; STEE'LY. adj. [from steel.]

In large forgetful draughts to steep the cares

Of their past labours and their irksome years. 1. Made of steel.

Dryden. Thy brother's blood the thirsty earth hath

Wheat steeped in brine twelve hours prevents drunk,

the smuttiness.

Mortimer, Broach'd with the steely point of Clifford's lance. STEE'PLE. n. s. (rreopel, rzypel, Sax.]

Sbakspeare. Here smokes his forge; he bares his sinewy arm,

A turret of a church, generally furnishAnd early strokes the sounding anvil warm :

ed with bells ; a spire. Around his shop the steely sparkles flew,

Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks; rage, As for the steed he shap'd the bending shoe. Gay.

blow! 2. Hard ; firm.

You cataracts and hurricanoes, spout! That she would unarm her noble heart of that Till you have drench'd our steeples, drown'd the steely resistance against the sweet blows of love.

cocks.

Shakspeare. Sidney.

What was found in many places, and preached

for wheat fallen on the ground from the clouds, STEE'LYARD. N s. (steel and gard.) A was but the seed of ivy-berries; and, though

kind of balance, in which the weight is found in steeples or high places, might be coile moved along an iron rod, and grows veyed thither or muted by birds. Brown. heavier as it is removed further from the A raven I saw stceple-high, just over your

house. fulcrum.

L'Estrange.

They, far from steeples and their sacred sound, STEEx or STEAX, n. s. A vessel of clay

In fields their sullen conventicles found. Dryd. or stone.

Ainsworth. STEE'PLY. adv. (from steep.) With preSTEEP. adj. [rzeap, Sax.] Rising or cipitous declivity:

descending with great inclination ; pre- Śree'pness. n. s. [from steep.) Precipitcipitous.

ons declivity. The mountains shall be thrown down, and the

The craggedness or strepness of that mountain stese places shall fall.

Ezekiel.

maketh many parts of it inaccessible. Brorow. He now had conquer'd Anxur's steep ascenc.

Lord Lovel swam over Trent on horseback, Addison.

but could not recover the farther side, by reaSTEEP. n. s. Precipice ; ascent or descent son of the steepness of the bank, and so was approaching to perpendicularity.

drowned.

Bacon. As that Thebean monster that propos'd

Vineyards, meadows, and corn-fields, lie on Her riddle, and him, who solv'd it not, devour'd; the borders, and run up all the sides of the Alps, That once found out and solv’d, for grief and

where the barreness of the rocks, or the steepspight

ness of the ascent, will suffer them. Addison. Cast herself headlong from th' Ismenian steep. STEE'PY. adj. (trom steep.] Having a

Milton.

precipitous declivity. A poetical word As high turrets for their airy steep Require foundations in proportion deep;

Who hath dispos'd, but thou, tho winding way, And lofty cedars as far upwards shoot

Where springs down from the steepy craggs

do As to the nether heavens they drive the root;

beac?

Wottest. So low did her secure foundation lie, She was not humble, but humility. Dryden.

A prophet some, and some a poet cry, Instructs the beast to know his native force,

From sterpy Othrys' top to Pylus drove To take the bit between his teeth, and fly

His herd; and for his pains enjoy'd his love.

Dryden. To the next headlong steep of anarchy. Dryder. We had on each side naked rocks and moun

No more, my goats, shall I behold you climb tains, broken into a thousand irregular steeps

The sterpy cliffs, or crop the flow'ry thyme. and precipices. Addison.

Dryden. Leaning o'er the rails, he musing stood,

STEER. n. s. (r=ýne, steor, szione, Sax. And view'd below the black canal of mus,

stier, Dutch.) A Where common shores a lulling murmur kerp, They think themselves half exempted from Whise torrents rush from Holborn's iatal steep. law and obedience; and having once tasted free

Giij. dom, do, like a stoor that hath been long out of

.

for steep

young bullock:

his yeke, grudge and repine ever after to come

In part shed down under rule again.

Spenser. Their stellar virtue, on all kinds that grow
Lacaon, Neptune's priest,

On earth; made hereby apter to receive With solemn pomp then sacrific'd a steer. Dryd. Perfection from the sun's more potent ray: Nor has the steer,

Miltor. At whose strong chest the deadly tiger hangs, Salt dissolved, upon fixation, returns to its afE’er plow'd for him.

Thomson. fected cubes, and regular figures of minerals; as TO STEER. v. a. (szeoran, reġran, Sax.

the hexagonal of chrystal, and stellar figure of the stone asteria.

Glanvill. stieren, Dutch.) To direct; to guide in STE'LLATE. auj. (stellatus, Lat.] Pointa passage : originally used of a ship, but

ed in the manner of a painted star. applied to other things.

One making a regulus of antimony, without A com a palmer, clad in black attire,

iron, found his regulus adorned with a more Of ripest years, and hairs all hoary gray,

conspicuous star than I have seen in several stelo That with a staff his feebie steps did stuer,

late reguluses of antimony and mars. Bogle, Lest his long way his aged limbs should tire.

Spenser.

STELLATION. n. s. [from stella, Latin.] If a pilot cannot see the pole star, it can be no Emission of light as from a star. fault in him to steer his course by such stars as STE'LLED. adj. Starry. do best appear to him.

King Charles And quench'd the stelled fires. Sbakspear:: TO STEER, V. n.

STELLI'FEROUS. adj. (siella and jero:] 1. To direct a course at sea.

Having stars.

Dict. As when a ship, by skilful steersman wrought, STE’LLION. n. s. (ste!lio, Latin.] A newt. Nigh river's mouth, or foreland, where the wind

Ainswortb. Veers oft, as oft so steers, and shifts her sail. STE'LLIONATE. n. s. (stellionat, Freoch;

Milton.

stellionatus, Latin.) A kind of crime In a creature whose thoughts are more than the sands and wider than the ocean, fancy and

which is committed [in law] by a de passion must needs run him into strange courses,

ceitful selling of a thing otherwise than if reason, which is his only star and compass, be it really is: as, if a man should sell that not that he steers by.

Locke. for his own estate which is actually ari2. To conduct himself.

other man's. STEE'R AGE. n. s. [from steer.]

It discerneth of crimes of stellionate, and the

inchoations towards crimes capital, not actually 1. The act or practice of steering.

committed.

Bacon, Having got his vessel Jaunched and set aioat: Stem. n. s. (stemma, Latin.] he committed the stuerage of it io such as he thought capable of conducting it. Spectator.

1. The stalk ; the twig. 3. Direction ; regulation of a course.

Two lovely berries molded on one stem, He that hath the steerage of my course,

So with two seeming bodies, but one heart. Direct my suit. Sbakspeare.

Sbaispeare

After they are first shot up thirty foo: in 3. That by which any course is guided.

length, they spread a very large top, having no His costly frame

bough nor iwig in the trunk or stem. Raleigh. Inscrib'd to Phæbus, here he hung on high,

Set them aslope a reasonable depth, and then The steerage of his wings, and cut the sky. Dryd.

they will put forth many roots, and so carry 4. Regulation or management of any thing.

more shoots upon a stem.

Bacon. You raise the honour of the peerage,

This, cre it was in th' earth, Proud to attend you at the steerage. Swift. God made, and every herb before it grew 5. The stern or hinder part of the ship. On the green stem.

Milten. STEE'RSMATE.] n. s. (steer and man, or

The stem thus threaten'd, and the sap in chee,

Drops all the branches of that nobletree. Wallr. STEEʻRSMAN. ) mate.] A pilot; one

whose buds with early who steers a ship.

What pilot so expert but needs must wreck, I watch'd, and to the chearful sun did rear: Embark'd with such a steersmate at the helm? Who now shall bind your stems? or, when you

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fall, In a storm, though the vessel be pressed never With fountain streams your fainting souls recall! so hard, a skilful steersman will yet bear up

Drzdesi against it.

L'Estrange. The low'ring spring with lavish rain Thro' it the joyful steersman clears his way, Beats down the slender stem and bearded grak And comes to anchor in his inmost bay. Dryd.

Dryden. STEGANO'GRAPHIST. n. s. [5iyano's and 2. Family; race; generation. Pedigrees

you pw.] He who practises the art of se- are drawn in the form of a branching cret writing.

Bailey. tree. STEGANO'GRAPHY. X. s. [sryavòs and

I will assay her worth to celebrate;

And so attend ye toward her glittering state, ypatw.] The art of secret writing, by

Where ye may all, that are of noble stern, characters or ciphers intelligible only to

Approach.

Milton. the persons who correspond one with Whosoever will undertake the imperial diaanother.

Bailey. dem, must have of his own wherewith to support STEGNOʻTICK. adj. [siyowtinis.] Binding ; it; which is one of the reasons that it hath con

tinued these two ages and more in that ste, rendering costive.

now so much spoken of.

How STE'LE. n. s. (rrela, Saxon ; stele, Dut.]

Dost chou in hounds aspire to deathless fame? A stalk; a bandle.

Learn well their lincage and their ancient steri. STE'LLAR. adj. [from stella, Latin.]

Ticks Astral; relating to the stars.

3. Progeny ; branch of a family.

}

Farewell, you

flow'rs,

care

Bailey

This is a stem

he was able, by the help of wings, in a running Of that victorious stock, and let us fear

pace, to step constantly ien yards at a time. His native mightiness. Sbakspeere.

Wilkins. 4. [stammen, Swedish.] The prow or 2. To advance by a sudden progression. forepart of a ship.

Whosoever first, after the troubling the waOrante's barque, ev'n in the hero's view, ter, stepped in, was made whole.

Fosbua.

Ventidius lately From stem to stern by waves was overborn.

Dryden.

Buried his father, by whose death he steppid TO STEM. v. a. [stæmma, Islandick.) To

Into a great estate.

Shakspears. oppose a current; to pass cross or for. 3. To move mentally.

When a person is hearing a sermon, he may ward notwithstanding the stream.

give his thoughts loave to step baek so far as to • They on the trading flood,

recollect the several heads.

Watts. Through the wide Ethiopian to the cape,

They are stepping almost three thousand years Ply, stemming nightly tow'rd the pole. Milton.

back into the remotest antiquity, the only true Above the deep they raise their scaly crests, mirrour of that ancient worid.

Pope. And stem the flood with their erected breasts.

Denbam,
4. To go; to walk.

I am in blood
In shipping such as this, the Irish kern
And untaught Indian on the stream did glide,

Stept in so far, that should I wade no more, Ere sharp-keel'd boats to stem the flood did

Returning were as tedious as go o'er. Sbaksp. learn,

s. To come as it were by chance. Or fin-like oars did spread from either side.

The old poets step in to the assistance of the Dryden. medalist.

Addison, At length Erasmus, that great injur'd name,

6. To take a short walk. Stemm': the wild torrent of a barb'rous age,

See where he comes; so, please you step aside: And drove those holy Vandals off the stage. Pope.

I'll know his grievance.

Shakspeare. STENCH. n. s. [from srencan, Saxon.]

My brothers, when they saw me wearied out, 1. A stink; a bad smell.

Stepp'd, as they said, to the next thicket-side
To bring me berries.

Milton. Death, death, oh amiable and lovely death!

When your master wants a servant who hapThou odoriferous stentb, sound rottenness,

pens to be abroad, answer, that he had but that Asise forth from thy couch of lasting night.

minute stept out.

Swift. Shakspeare. 7. To walk gravely, slowly, or resolutely. So bees with smoke, and doves with noisome

Pyrrhus, the most ancient of all the bashaws, stencb, Are from their hives and houses driv'n away.

stept forth, and, appealing unto his mercies, ear. Sbakspeare,

nestly requested himn to spare his life. Knolles. Physicians, by the stench of feathers, cure the

When you stepped forth, how did the monster rising of the mother.

Bacon.

rage,

In scorn of your soft looks and tender age! The ministery will be found the sale of the earth, the thing that keeps societies of men from

Cowley.

Home the swain retreats, stench and corruption.

South.

His flock before him stepping to the fold. Thoms. The hoary Nar Corrupted with the stench of salphur flows, STEP. n. s. (rtæp, Saxon; stap, Dutch.) And into Tiber's stream th' infected current

1. Progression by one removal of the throws.

Addison.

foot. 2. I find it used once for a good smell.

Thou sound and firm-set earth, Black bulls and bearded goats on altars lie, Hear not my steps, which way they walk. Sbak. And clouds of sav'ry stencb involve the sky.

Ling'ring perdition, worse than any death

Dryden. Can be at once, shall step by step attend To STENCH. v. a. (from the noun.]

You and your ways.

Shekspear:. 1. To make to stink. Not proper, or in

Who was the first to explore th' untrodden

path, The foulness of the ponds only stencbetb the

When life was hazarded in every step? Addison. Mortimer.

2. One remove in climbing; hold for the 2. [for staunch, corruptly.) To stop; to foot; a stair. hinder to flow.

While Solyman lay at Buda, seven bloody They had better skill to let blood than stench heads of bishops slain in battle were set in ore it.

King Charles.
der upon a wooden step.

Kno!les. Restringents to stencb, and incrassatives to The breadth of every single step or stair should thicken, the blood.

Harvey; be never less than one foot, nor more than eighSTENO'GRAPHY. 1. s. [sevds and yfá pwo]

teen inches.

Wetlon. Shorthand.

Those heights where William's virtue might O the accurst sterzograpby of state !

Have staid, The princely eagle shrunk into a bat. Cleavel,

And on the subject world look'd safely down,

By Marlbro' pass'd, the props and steps were STENTOROPHO'NICK. adj. [from Stentor,

made the Homerical herald, whose voice was Sublimer yet to raise his queen's renown. Prior. as loud as that of fifty men, and qum, a

It was a saying among the ancients, Truth voice.) Loudly speaking or sounding,

lies in a well; and, to carry on this metaphor, Of this stentoropbonick horn of Alexander

we may justly say, that logick does supply us there is a figure preserved in the Vatican. Derb.

with steps whereby we may go down to reach the water.

Watis. TO STEP. v. n. [stæppan, Sax. stappen, 3. Quantity of space passed or measured Dutch.]

by one removal of the foot. 1. To move by a single change of the The gradus, a Roman measure, may be transplace of the foot.

lated a step, or the half of a passus or pace. Que of our nation hath proceeded so far, that

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use.

water.