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The quality or state of being stern.

A combining form used in anatomy to indicate connection with, or relation to, the sternum; as, sternocostal, sternoscapular.

Of or pertaining to the sternum and the coracoid.

Of or pertaining to the sternum and the ribs; as, the sternocostal cartilages.

Of or pertaining to the sternum and the hyoid bone or cartilage.

Of or pertaining to the sternum and the mastoid process.

Of or pertaining to the sternum and the thyroid cartilage.

A straight piece of timber, or an iron bar or beam, erected on the extremity of the keel to support the rudder, and receive the ends of the planks or plates of the vessel.

A steersman. [Obs.]

The end of a ship's keelson, to which the sternpost is bolted; -- called also stern knee.

A plate of cartilage, or a series of bony or cartilaginous plates or segments, in the median line of the pectoral skeleton of most vertebrates above fishes; the breastbone.

The act of sneezing. Quincy.

Having the quality of provoking to sneeze.

Sternutative. -- n.

The movement of a ship backward, or with her stern foremost.

ifically (Mil.), ranking as a junior officer; being below the rank of captain; as, a subaltern officer.

A universal proposition. See Subaltern, 2. Whately.

Subordinate; subaltern; inferior. All their subalternate and several kinds. Evelyn.

Subalternate; successive.

The state of being subalternate; succession of turns; subordination.