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

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.

A horse that moves with a high step or proud gait; hence, a person having a proud bearing. [Colloq.]

ther man praise thee, and not thine own mouth. Prov. xxvii. 2. While I am coming, another steppeth down before me. John v. 7.

A canoe or boat dug out from a large log. [U.S.] A man stepped from his slender dugout. G. W. Cable.

d less commonly sheep and goats; -- called also cattle plague, Russian cattle plague, and steppe murrain.

martial stalk hath he gone by our watch. Shak. The which with monstrous stalk behind him stepped. Spenser.

state, or to advance suddenly in. Whosoever then first, after the troubling of the water, stepped in, was made whole of whatsoever disease he had. John v. 4.

Stepped; gone; advanced. [Obs.] A poor widow, somedeal stope in age. Chaucer.

The act or manner of a swaggerer. He gave a half swagger, half leer, as he stepped forth to receive us. W. Irving.

e interwoven rolling masses of the stems of herbs, which are driven by the winds over the steppes of Tartary. Cf. Tumbleweed. Maunder (Treas. of Bot.) -- Witches' besoms (Bot.), tufted and distorted branches of the silver fir, caused by the attack of some fungus. Maunder (Treas. of Bot.) -- Witches' butter (Bot.), a na…

A fore-and-aft-rigged vessel with a mainmast stepped a little farther forward than in a sloop and carrying a mainsail and jibs, with a jigger mast far aft, usually placed abaft the rudder post.

re-and-aft sails, but differing from a schooner in that the after mast is very small, and stepped as far aft as possible. See Illustration in Appendix.