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Constipation; also, constriction of the vessels or ducts.

A stegnotic medicine; an astringent.

An extinct order of amphibians found fossil in the Mesozoic rocks; called also Stegocephali, and Labyrinthodonta.

An extinct order of herbivorous dinosaurs, including the genera Stegosaurus, Omosaurus, and their allies.

A genus of large Jurassic dinosaurs remarkable for a powerful dermal armature of plates and spines.

Strategic.

Strategy.

Of or pertaining to strategy; effected by artifice. -- Stra*te"gic*al*ly, adv. Strategic line (Mil.), a line joining strategic points. -- Strategic point (Mil.), any point or region in the theater or warlike operations which affords to its possessor an advantage over his opponent, as a mountain pass, a junction of ri…

Strategy.

One skilled in strategy, or the science of directing great military movements.

The leader or commander of an army; a general.

The science of military command, or the science of projecting campaigns and directing great military movements; generalship.

Under the roof or eaves; within doors. [R.]

Not capable of being used as a term by itself; -- said of words, as an adverb or preposition.

Expressing the same thing with different words; -- opposed to allegorical. [R.] Coleridge.

One of the plates on the under side of the tail of a serpent.

Nourishing matter stored up within the integuments of the seed in many plants, but not incorporated in the embryo. It is the floury part in corn, wheat, and like grains, the oily part in poppy seeds, the fleshy part in the cocoanut, etc.

A prerequisite to a clear understanding of the predicaments and categories, such as definitions of common terms. Chambers.

Sandy or consisting largely of sand; of the nature of sand; easily disintegrating into sand; friable; as, arenaceous limestone.

A sandstone derived from the disintegration of granite or gneiss, and characterized by feldspar fragments. -- Ar*kos"ic (#), a.