Word Meanings - STERNLY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

In a stern manner.

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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.
• STERNUTATORY
  Sternutative. -- n.
• 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.
• 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.
• STERNAGE
  Stern. Shak.
• STERNNESS
  The quality or state of being stern.
• STERN
  The black tern.
• STERNOCOSTAL
  Of or pertaining to the sternum and the ribs; as, the sternocostal cartilages.
• MANNERIST
  One addicted to mannerism; a person who, in action, bearing, or treatment, carries characteristic peculiarities to excess. See citation under Mannerism.
• MANNERISM
  Adherence to a peculiar style or manner; a characteristic mode of action, bearing, or treatment, carried to excess, especially in literature or art. Mannerism is pardonable,and is sometimes even agreeable, when the manner, though vicious, is natural
• STERNER
  A director. Dr. R. Clerke.
• STERNED
  Having a stern of a particular shape; -- used in composition; as, square-sterned.
• STERNITE
  The sternum of an arthropod somite.
• STERN-WHEELER
  A steamboat having a stern wheel instead of side wheels.
• STERNOCORACOID
  Of or pertaining to the sternum and the coracoid.
• STERNLY
  In a stern manner.
• 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.
• UNMANNERLY
  Not mannerly; ill-bred; rude. -- adv.
• SUPRASTERNAL
  Situated above, or anterior to, the sternum.
• PINK STERN
  See PINK
• PINK-STERNED
  Having a very narrow stern; -- said of a vessel.
• ENDOSTERNITE
  The part of each apodeme derived from the intersternal membrane in Crustacea and insects.
• LATISTERNAL
  Having a broad breastbone, or sternum; -- said of anthropoid apes.
• HYPOSTERNUM
  See HYPOPLASTRON
• PRESTERNUM
  The anterior segment of the sternum; the manubrium. -- Pre*ster"nal, a.