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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.

In or at the hinder part of a ship; toward the hinder part, or stern; backward; as, to go astern.

Not sternal; -- said of ribs which do not join the sternum.

A natural reservoir; a hollow place containing water. "The wide cisterns of the lakes." Blackmore.

ion; terror, combined with amaxement; dismay. The chiefs around, In silence wrapped, in onsternation downed. Attend the stern reply. Pope.

Situated or dwelling in the east; oriental; as, an eastern gate; Eastern countries. Eastern churches first did Christ embrace. Stirling.

t portion of the Christian church which prevails in the countries once comprised in the Eastern Roman Empire and the countries converted to Christianity by missionaries from them. Its full official title is The Orthodox Catholic Apostolic Eastern Church. It became estranged from the Western, or Roman, Church over the q…

Most eastern.

The part of each apodeme derived from the intersternal membrane in Crustacea and insects.

See Entoplastron. -- En`to*ster"nal, a.

Of or pertaining to the episternum.

A median bone connected with the sternum, in many vertebrates; the interclavicle.

Pertaining to yesterday. [Obs.] See Yester, a. Ld. Lytton.