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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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2,069 words match “TERN”

Sempiternal. [Obs.]

SEMPITERNITY n.

Future duration without end; the relation or state of being sempiternal. Sir M. Hale.

SLATTERN a. 3 definitions

Resembling a slattern; sluttish; slatterny. "The slattern air." Gay.

SLATTERNLINESS n.

The quality or state of being slatternly; slovenliness; untidiness.

SLATTERNLY a. 2 definitions

Resembling a slattern; sluttish; negligent; dirty. -- adv.

SOUTHEASTERN a.

Of or pertaining to the southeast; southeasterly.

SOUTHWESTERN a.

Of or pertaining to the southwest; southwesterly; as, to sail a southwestern course.

STERN n. 8 definitions

The black tern.

Having a paddle wheel at the stern; as, a stern-wheel steamer.

STERN-WHEELER n.

A steamboat having a stern wheel instead of side wheels. [Colloq. U.S.]

Stern. [R.] Shak.

Of or pertaining to the sternum; in the region of the sternum. Sternal ribs. See the Note under Rib, n., 1.

STERNBERGITE n.

A sulphide of silver and iron, occurring in soft flexible laminæ varying in color from brown to black.

One of the segments of the sternum. -- Ster"ne*bral, a.

Having a stern of a particular shape; -- used in composition; as, square-sterned.

A director. [Obs. & R.] Dr. R. Clerke.

STERNFOREMOST adv.

With the stern, instead of the bow, in advance; hence, figuratively, in an awkward, blundering manner. A fatal genius for going sternforemost. Lowell.

The sternum of an arthropod somite.

In a stern manner.

Farthest in the rear; farthest astern; as, the sternmost ship in a convoy.