Word Meanings - STERNAGE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Stern. Shak.
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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. - STERNOCOSTAL
Of or pertaining to the sternum and the ribs; as, the sternocostal cartilages. - 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. - STERN
The black tern. - STERNO-
A combining form used in anatomy to indicate connection with, or relation to, the sternum; as, sternocostal, sternoscapular. - STERNWAY
The movement of a ship backward, or with her stern foremost. - 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. - 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.