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