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To walk; to go on foot; esp., to walk a little distance; as, to step to one of the neighbors.

s spoken of is not a blood relative, but is a relative by the marriage of a parent; as, a stepmother to X is the wife of the father of X, married by him after the death of the mother of X. See Stepchild, Stepdaughter, Stepson, etc.

ing or converting a current of high potential or pressure into one of low pressure; as, a step-down transformer.

Transforming or converting a low-pressure current into one of high pressure; as, a step-up transformer.

A brother by the marriage of one's father with the mother of another, or of one's mother with the father of another.

A bereaved child; one who has lost father or mother. [Obs.]

A stepmother. Spenser.

A daughter of one's wife or husband by a former marriage.

The husband of one's mother by a subsequent marriage.

The point on the side of the skull where the temporal line, or upper edge of the temporal fossa, crosses the coronal suture.

A sulphide of antimony and silver of an iron-black color and metallic luster; called also black silver, and brittle silver ore.

A perfume said to be prepared from the flowers of Stephanotis floribunda.

A portable set of steps.

The wife of one's father by a subsequent marriage.

Stepfather or stepmother.

free from wood, analogous to many of the prairies in Western North America. See Savanna. Steppe murrain. (Far.) See Rinderpest.

Provided with a step or steps; having a series of offsets or parts resembling the steps of stairs; as, a stepped key. Stepped gear, a cogwheel of which the teeth cross the face in a series of steps.

One who, or that which, steps; as, a quick stepper.

Fig.: A means of progress or advancement. These obstacles his genius had turned into stepping-stones. Macaulay. That men may rise on stepping-stones Of their dead selves to higher things. Tennyson.

A daughter of one's stepfather or stepmother by a former marriage.