Word Meanings - STERNED - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Having a stern of a particular shape; -- used in composition; as, square-sterned.
Related words: (words related to STERNED)
- HAVENED
Sheltered in a haven. Blissful havened both from joy and pain. Keats. - STERNFOREMOST
With the stern, instead of the bow, in advance; hence, figuratively, in an awkward, blundering manner. A fatal genius for going sternforemost. Lowell. - STERNUTATORY
Sternutative. -- n. - HAVENER
A harbor master. - SHAPE
is from the strong verb, AS. scieppan, scyppan, sceppan, p. p. 1. To form or create; especially, to mold or make into a particular form; to give proper form or figure to. I was shapen in iniquity. Ps. li. 5. Grace shaped her limbs, and - 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. - STERNSMAN
A steersman. - HAVELOCK
A light cloth covering for the head and neck, used by soldiers as a protection from sunstroke. - STERNMOST
Farthest in the rear; farthest astern; as, the sternmost ship in a convoy. - 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. - SQUARE-TOED
Having the toe square. Obsolete as fardingales, ruffs, and square-toed shoes. V. Knox. - SQUARELY
In a square form or manner. - HAVE
haven, habben, AS. habben ; akin to OS. hebbian, D. hebben, OFries, hebba, OHG. hab, G. haben, Icel. hafa, Sw. hafva, Dan. have, Goth. haban, and prob. to L. habere, whence F. 1. To hold in possession or control; to own; as, he has a farm. 2. - STERNAGE
Stern. Shak. - STERNNESS
The quality or state of being stern. - STERN
The black tern. - SQUARE-RIGGED
Having the sails extended upon yards suspended horizontally by the middle, as distinguished from fore-and-aft sails; thus, a ship and a brig are square-rigged vessels. - STERNOCOSTAL
Of or pertaining to the sternum and the ribs; as, the sternocostal cartilages. - THREE-SQUARE
Having a cross section in the form of an equilateral triangle; -- said especially of a kind of file. - SPINDLE-SHAPED
Thickest in the middle, and tapering to both ends; fusiform; -- applied chiefly to roots. (more info) 1. Having the shape of a spindle. - DIAMOND-SHAPED
Shaped like a diamond or rhombus. - STRAP-SHAPED
Shaped like a strap; ligulate; as, a strap-shaped corolla. - PROSTERNATION
Dejection; depression. Wiseman. - T SQUARE
See T - 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. - SUPRASTERNAL
Situated above, or anterior to, the sternum. - AWL-SHAPED
Subulate. See Subulate. Gray. (more info) 1. Shaped like an awl. - MISBEHAVE
To behave ill; to conduct one's self improperly; -- often used with a reciprocal pronoun.