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Word Meanings - APLUSTRE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

An ornamental appendage of wood at the ship's stern, usually spreading like a fan and curved like a bird's feather. Audsley.

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  • STERNFOREMOST
    With the stern, instead of the bow, in advance; hence, figuratively, in an awkward, blundering manner. A fatal genius for going sternforemost. Lowell.
  • SPREADINGLY
    , adv. Increasingly. The best times were spreadingly infected. Milton.
  • STERNUTATORY
    Sternutative. -- n.
  • FEATHERNESS
    The state or condition of being feathery.
  • STERNOHYOID
    Of or pertaining to the sternum and the hyoid bone or cartilage.
  • STERNAL
    Of or pertaining to the sternum; in the region of the sternum. Sternal ribs. See the Note under Rib, n., 1.
  • FEATHER-FEW
    Feverfew.
  • FEATHER-VEINED
    Having the veins diverging from the two sides of a midrib.
  • FEATHER-FOIL
    An aquatic plant , having finely divided leaves.
  • STERNSMAN
    A steersman.
  • STERNMOST
    Farthest in the rear; farthest astern; as, the sternmost ship in a convoy.
  • CURVIROSTRES
    A group of passerine birds, including the creepers and nuthatches.
  • ORNAMENTAL
    Serving to ornament; characterized by ornament; beautifying; embellishing. Some think it most ornamental to wear their bracelets on their wrists; others, about their ankles. Sir T. Browne.
  • STERNOMASTOID
    Of or pertaining to the sternum and the mastoid process.
  • STERNSON
    The end of a ship's keelson, to which the sternpost is bolted; -- called also stern knee.
  • CURVICAUDATE
    Having a curved or crooked tail.
  • STERNAGE
    Stern. Shak.
  • STERNNESS
    The quality or state of being stern.
  • FEATHER-EDGED
    Having a feather-edge; also, having one edge thinner than the other, as a board; -- in the United States, said only of stuff one edge of which is made as thin as practicable.
  • CURVISERIAL
    Distributed in a curved line, as leaves along a stem.
  • PROSTERNATION
    Dejection; depression. Wiseman.
  • EPISTERNUM
    One of the lateral pieces next to the sternum in the thorax of insects. (more info) A median bone connected with the sternum, in many vertebrates; the interclavicle. Same as Epiplastron.
  • TRICURVATE
    Curved in three directions; as, a tricurvate spicule (see Illust. of Spicule).
  • SUPRASTERNAL
    Situated above, or anterior to, the sternum.
  • BEDSPREAD
    A bedquilt; a counterpane; a coverlet.
  • PINK STERN
    See PINK

 

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