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A young small steer.

One who steers; the helmsman of a vessel. Milton.

One who steers; steersman. [Obs.] Milton.

To stow, as bales in a vessel's hold, by means of a steeve. See Steeve, n. (b).

The act or practice of one who steeves.

To gleam. [Obs.] His head bald, that shone as any glass, . . . [And] stemed as a furnace of a leed [caldron]. Chaucer.

Rolled steel in structural shapes.

An under committee; a part or division of a committee. Yet by their sequestrators and subcommittees abroad . . . those orders were commonly disobeyed. Milton.

A Hindoo widow who immolates herself, or is immolated, on the funeral pile of her husband; -- so called because this act of self- immolation is regarded as envincing excellence of wifely character. [India]

The practice of self-immolation of widows in Hindostan.

One who is armed with a target or shield. [Written also targetier.]

One more than twelve; ten and three; as, thirteen ounces or pounds.

Next in order after the twelfth; the third after the tenth; -- the ordinal of thirteen; as, the thirteenth day of the month.

Thirteen. [Obs. or Scot.]

Hard steel, usually crucible steel, capable of being tempered so as to be suitable for tools.

it of another; also, a person in whose hands the effects of another are attached in a trustee process. Trustee process (Law), a process by which a creditor may attach his debtor's goods, effects, and credits, in the hands of a third person; -- called, in some States, the process of foreign attachment, garnishment, or f…

The process of attachment by garnishment. [U. S.]

High-grade stock in which trust funds may be legally invested. [Colloq.]

The office or duty of a trustee.

A steel containing a small amount of tungsten, noted for tenacity and hardness, even under a considerable degree of heat. Magnets made of it are said to be highly permanent. It often contains manganese.