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aback
abaft
adriatic
aft
after
after-most
after-part
ahead
alkenna
america
amplitude
anacathartic
ancient
annona
antelope
armorican
arrest
astern
atlantis
austere
baboon
back
badge
barque
bastarnic
bath
bison
blacksea
bos
boulet
breastbone
browbeating
budgeness
buffalo
bumkin
buttock
button-wood
cabin
camber
camelopard
cantaro
castellated
castle
cat
caviar
celtis
chase
cinque-ports
cistern
clavicle
cleft
confound
consternation
continent
cornet
counter
cratches
cut
dead-reckoning
deadnettle
deadpledge
deadwater
demiurge
drift
driver
east
eastern
emigrate
emigration
empty
ensign
ergot
eternally
exarch
fall
fashion-monger
felucca
ferule
fetlock
flyboat
fore
frigatoon
frown
frowning
frowningly
gallery
gallop
goodings
grim-faced
grimly
grimness
grisons
gristle
gruff
gruffly
gruffness
harem
heave
heel
hesperian
hinder
hold
horizon
horoscope
instantaneously
integrity
junk
keel
lade
latin
levant
make
malanders
meadow
meridian
migrating
mild
mizzen-mast
modern
moxa
myrrh
naphtha
navigable
nickar-tree
noddy
northwestern
obtain
occasive
occident
occidental
occiduous
orang-outang
orient
oriental
orientalism
orientalist
orientality
ortive
outbrave
perroquet
pink
pitch
pitching
plantation
point
ponent
poop
pooping
population
postern
pre-existence
press
proa
pronounce
prosternation
prostrate
publicly
purchase
quarter
rail
rake
raking
read
regard
reservoir
rib
ribin
rickets
rigor
robe
rock
romish
rotoco
rudder
rule
sage
sally-port
scull
sculler
sea
seclude
sellander
short-jointed
skirt
sleeper
sneezing
sourly
southeastern
southwestern
spring
stare
start
steeper
stem
stern
stern-board
stern-chase
stern-fast
stern-frame
stern-port
stern-post
stern-sheets
stern-way
sternage
sterned
sterner
sternly
sternmost
sternness
sternon
sternum
sternutation
sternutative
sternutatory
stomach
stuff
subject
substratum
suffraginous
sultanry
surly
suspiral
swivel
tafferel
tank
technical
tern
thyme
tilt
torvous
touch
transom
trass
tuck
turn
unspent
vail
vat
waft
walnut
warp
wart
way
west
westerly
western
wharf
wish
wrestle
yesternight



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STERN, a. [G., staring; stubborn. See Stare, Starck, Stark, with which this word is probably connected.]

1. Severe; austere; fixed with an aspect of severity and authority; as a stern look; a stern countenance; a stern frown.

I would outstare the sternest eyes that look.

2. Severe of manner; rigid; harsh; cruel.

Stern as tutors, and as uncles hard.

Ambition should be made of sterner stuff.

3. Hard; afflictive.

If wolves had at thy gate howld that stern time.

4. Rigidly stedfast; immovable.

Stern virtue is the growth of few soils.

STERN, n.

1. The hind part of a ship or other vessel, or of a boat; the part opposite to the stern or prow. This part of a ship is terminated by the tafferel above, and by the counters below.

2. Post of management; direction.

An sit at chiefest stern of public weal. [Not in use. We now say, to sit at the helm.]

3. The hinder part of any thing. [Not elegant.]

By the stern, is a phrase which denotes that a ship is more deeply laden abaft than forward.
1913 Definition
Stern (stern)
n.(?)
Stern
[AS. stearn a kind of bird. See Starling.] (Zoöl.)
  1. The black tern.
  2. Having a certain hardness or severity of nature, manner, or aspect; hard; severe; rigid; rigorous; austere; fixed; unchanging; unrelenting; hence, serious; resolute; harsh; as, a sternresolve; a stern necessity; a stern heart; a stern gaze; a stern decree.

    The sterne wind so loud gan to rout. Chaucer.

    I would outstare the sternest eyes that look. Shak.

    When that the poor have cried, Cæsar hath wept;
    Ambition should be made of sterner stuff.
    Shak.

    Stern as tutors, and as uncles hard. Dryden.

    These barren rocks, your stern inheritance. Wordsworth.

    Syn. -- Gloomy; sullen; forbidding; strict; unkind; hard- hearted; unfeeling; cruel; pitiless.

  3. The helm or tiller of a vessel or boat; also, the rudder.
    [Obs.] Chaucer.
  4. The after or rear end of a ship or other vessel, or of a boat; the part opposite to the stem, or prow.
  5. Fig.: The post of management or direction.

    And sit chiefest stern of public weal. Shak.

  6. The hinder part of anything.
    Spenser.
  7. The tail of an animal; -- now used only of the tail of a dog.

    By the stern. (Naut.) See By the head, under By.

  8. Being in the stern, or being astern; as, the stern davits.

    Stern board (Naut.), a going or falling astern; a loss of way in making a tack; as, to make a stern board. See Board, n., 8 (b). -- Stern chase. (Naut.) (a) See under Chase, n. (b) A stern chaser. -- Stern chaser (Naut.), a cannon placed in a ship's stern, pointing backward, and intended to annoy a ship that is in pursuit. -- Stern fast (Naut.), a rope used to confine the stern of a ship or other vessel, as to a wharf or buoy. -- Stern frame (Naut.), the framework of timber forms the stern of a ship. -- Stern knee. See Sternson. -- Stern port (Naut.), a port, or opening, in the stern of a ship. -- Stern sheets (Naut.), that part of an open boat which is between the stern and the aftmost seat of the rowers, -- usually furnished with seats for passengers. -- Stern wheel, a paddle wheel attached to the stern of the steamboat which it propels.


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