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One skilled in steganography; a cryptographer.

r, or in characters which are not intelligible except to persons who have the key; cryptography.

The art of writing or inscribing characters on pillars. [R.] Stackhouse.

To write or report in stenographic characters.

One who is skilled in stenography; a writer of shorthand.

Of or pertaining to stenography.

A stenographer.

The art of writing in shorthand, by using abbreviations or characters for whole words; shorthand.

Any picture, or pair of pictures, prepared for exhibition in the stereoscope. Stereographs are now commonly made by means of photography.

Made or done according to the rules of stereography; delineated on a plane; as, a stereographic chart of the earth. Stereographic projection (Geom.), a method of representing the sphere in which the center of projection is taken in the surface of the sphere, and the plane upon which the projection is made is at right a…

In a stereographical manner; by delineation on a plane.

The art of delineating the forms of solid bodies on a plane; a branch of solid geometry which shows the construction of all solids which are regularly defined.

A stereotype printer.

The act or art of printing from stereotype plates.

See Pneumatograph.

that . . . had scarce passed a day without giving her [his wife] the discipline of the strap. Addison.

Shaped like a strap; ligulate; as, a strap-shaped corolla.

To punish or torture by the strappado. Milton.

One who uses strap.

Tall; strong; lusty; large; as, a strapping fellow. [Colloq.] There are five and thirty strapping officers gone. Farquhar.