Definition of stern

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Stern (n.) The black tern.

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Fast :: Fast (n.) That which fastens or holds; especially, (Naut.) a mooring rope, hawser, or chain; -- called, according to its position, a bow, head, quarter, breast, or stern fast; also, a post on a pier around which hawsers are passed in mooring..
Eastern :: Eastern (a.) Situated or dwelling in the east; oriental; as, an eastern gate; Eastern countries..
Pooping :: Pooping (n.) The act or shock of striking a vessel's stern by a following wave or vessel.
Sternal :: Sternage (n.) Stern.
Celt :: Celt (n.) One of an ancient race of people, who formerly inhabited a great part of Central and Western Europe, and whose descendants at the present day occupy Ireland, Wales, the Highlands of Scotland, and the northern shores of France..
Bitter :: Bitter (v. t.) Characterized by sharpness, severity, or cruelty; harsh; stern; virulent; as, bitter reproach..
Sternums :: Sterna (pl. ) of Sternu.
Manubrium :: Manubrium (n.) A handlelike process or part; esp., the anterior segment of the sternum, or presternum, and the handlelike process of the malleus..
Scurrit :: Scurrit (n.) the lesser tern (Sterna minuta).
Sternutatory :: Sternutative (a.) Having the quality of provoking to sneeze.
Washer :: Washer (n.) A fitting, usually having a plug, applied to a cistern, tub, sink, or the like, and forming the outlet opening..
Chaser :: Chaser (n.) Same as Chase gun, esp. in terms bow chaser and stern chaser. See under Bow, Stern..
Occidentals :: Occidentals (n.pl.) Western Christians of the Latin rite. See Orientals.
Hestern :: Hestern (a.) Alt. of Hesterna.
Reindeer :: Reindeer (n.) Any ruminant of the genus Rangifer, of the Deer family, found in the colder parts of both the Eastern and Western hemispheres, and having long irregularly branched antlers, with the brow tines palmate..
Camass :: Camass (n.) A blue-flowered liliaceous plant (Camassia esculenta) of northwestern America, the bulbs of which are collected for food by the Indians..
Interclavicle :: Interclavicle (n.) See Episternum.
Broom :: Broom (n.) A plant having twigs suitable for making brooms to sweep with when bound together; esp., the Cytisus scoparius of Western Europe, which is a low shrub with long, straight, green, angular branches, minute leaves, and large yellow flowers..
Sternage :: Stern (a.) Being in the stern, or being astern; as, the stern davits..
Westling :: Westling (n.) A westerner.
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