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Show SETY S Marfy dream not to find, neither deferve And yet are fleep'd in favours. Shakefp. Cymbeline Four days will quickly flecp themfelves in night Four nights will quickly dream away the time Shakefpeare Moft of the fleepings are cheap things, and th goodnefs of the crop Is a great matter of gain Bacon Whole droves of minds are by the driving go Compell'd to drink the deep Lethean flood In large forgetful draughts to fieep the care Qf their paft labours and their irkfome years. Diyd Whea ffeeped in brine twelve hours prevents th fmuttinefs Mortimer's Hufbandry STEE'PLE 7. /. [yeeopel, yeypel, Sax. A turret of a church, generally furnifh -ed with bells; a {pire Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks; rage, blow You cataralts and hurricanoes, fpout Till you have drench'd our feeples, drown'd th cocks Shake[peare What was foun in many places, and preache r wheat falle th o groun fro th clouds 15 but the feed of ivy-berries; and though foun in_fleeples or high places, might be conveyed thither or muted by birds Brogon's Vulgar Errours A raven I faw fieeple-high, juft over your houfe L' Efirange They, far from fleeples and their facred found In fields their fullen conventicles found. Dryden Sxee'pLy. adv. [from feep.] With precipitous declivity STEE'PNESS. 7. /. [from flecp.] Precipitous declivity The craggednefs or fleepnefs of that mountai maketh many parts of it inacceflible Brerewood on Language Lord Lovel fwam over Trent on horfeback, bu could not recover the farther fide, by reafon of th Jteepnef of the bank an fo was drowned Bacon's Henry V meadows, and corn-fields lie on th Vineyards borders, and run up all the fides of the Alps, wher the barrennef of th afcent, will fuffer them rocks, or the Jfeepnefs of th Addifon Bree'ry. adj. [from fecp.] Having a precipitous declivity. A poetical word fo Sleep A Nig Veer I $B whena fhip, by fkilful feerfiman wrought river's mouth, or foreland, where the win oft, as oft {o_fieers, and thifts her fail. Milton a creature, whofe thoughts are more tha the fands and wider than the ocean, fancy and paffion muft needs run him into ftrange courfes, i reafon, which is his only ftar and compafs, be no that he fleers by Locke 2. To conduét himfelf STEE'RAGE. #. /. [from ffeer. 1. The a or praltice of fteering Having got his veffel launched and fet afloat, h committed the fleerage of it to fuch as he though capable of conduéting it Spectator 2. Direétion ; regulation of a courfe He that hath the ffeerage of my courfe Direct my fuit Shake[peare's Romeo and Fulict 3. That by which any courfe is guided His coftly fram Infcrib'd to Pheebus, here he hung on high The flecrage of his wings, and cut the {fky. Dryden 4. Regulation or management of any thing You raife the honour of the peerage Proud to attend you at the feerage Savift 5. The ftern or hinder part of the fhip STEE'RSMATE. ) #. /. [ Jlee an man, o STEE'RsMAN. § mate.] A pilot; one wh fteers a fhip What pilot fo expert but needs muft wreck Embark'd with fuch a flecrfmate at the helm Milton In a ftorm, though the vefiel be preffed never f hard, a fkilful feerfiman willyet bear up againft it L' Efirange Through it the joyful feerfman clears his way And comes to anchor in his inmoft bay. Dryden STEGANO'GRAPHIST. 7. /i [seyavts an ve4¢w.] He who practifes the art of fecret writing Bailgy STEGANO'GRAPHY. 7. f. [ seyard: an ypapw. The art of fecret writing, b charaters or cyphers intelligible onl to the perfons who correfpond one wit another Bailey STEcoNO TICK. adj. [seywrizds.] Binding Who hath difposid, but thou, the winding way rendering coftive Bailey Where fprings down from the fecpy craggs do beat ¢ STE'LE. . /. [yeela, Saxon ; fele, Dutch. Wotton A ftalk ; a handle A prophet fome, and fome a poet cry STE'LLAR. adj. [fro lating to the fars From flecpy Othrys' top to Pylus drov Xis herd; and for his pains enjoy'd his iove Dryden No more, my goats, fhall T behold you clim The flecpy clifs, or crop the flow'ry thyme, Dryd STEER 7. /. [yzyne, yTeon, reone Ster, Dutch. A young bullock Sax They think themfelves half exempted from la 2nd obedience; and having once tafted freedom do, like a fleer that hath been long out of his yoke Ige and repine ever after to come under ru Spenfer's Ireland " Lacaon, Neptune's prieft With folemn pomp then facrific'd a fieer. Dryde Nor has the feer At whofe firong cheft the deadly tiger hangs E'er plow'd for him T hom/on %o STEER. w. 4. [eopan, yeypan, Sax Sieren, Dutch.] To direét ; to guide i « paflage : originally ufed of a fhip out applied to other things A comely palmer, clad in black attire Of ripeft years, and hairs all hoary gray ‘That with a ftaff his feeble fteps did feer Lef I faul bef his long way his aged limbs fhould tire. Spen a pilot cannot fee the pole ffar, it can be n in him to fleer his courfe by fuch ftars as d appear to him K. Charles To STEER w. 2 £. 'To diret a courfe at fea flella.] Aftral; re In part thed dow Their flellar virtue, on all kinds that gro On carth ; made hereby apter to receiv Perfection from the fun's more potent ray. Milton Salt difiolved, upon fixation, returns to its affeted cubes, and regular figures of minerals; a the hexagonal of chryftal and fe//ar figure of th ftone afteria Glanwille Ste'LLaTE. adj. [ fellatus, Latin.] Pointed in the manner of a painted ftar One making a regulus of antimony, withou iron, found his regulus adorned with a more confpicuous ftar than I have feen in feveral ffellate regulufes of antimony and mars Boyle STeLLA'TION. 7. /i [from fella. fion of light as from a ftar STE'LLED. adj. Starry And inrtnclx'd the ffelled fives Emif Shak. King Lear STELLIFEROUS. adj. [ fella and fero. Having ftars Dig Ste'LLION. . f. [ fellio, Lat.] A newt Ainfvorth STELLIONATE. 2. /. [ fellionat, French Sellionatus, Lat. A kind of crime whic 1s committed [in law] by a deceitfu felling of a thing otherwife than it reall 1s : as, if a man thould fell that for hi own eftate whic man's i s afually anotfe, It difcerneth of crim s of frellionate, an the in cho ! tions towards crimes capitaly nog » N0t atually com Stem. n. [ [ flemma, Latin, 1. The ftalk; the twig Two lovely berries molde So with two feeming bodies After they are firft fhot u they fpread a very large top twig in the trunk or ftem 6 one Sfre but one hea;L Shat thirty foot in length having no bough no Ralf,'g},'s Hifu Set them aflope a reafonable depth, and the); they will put forth many roots, and fo carry mor thoots upon a flerm Bac This, ere it was in th' eatth God made, and ev'ry heib before it gra On the green fem Milte The flem thus threaten'd and the {ap in t ee Drops all the branches of that noble tree, Wal;er Farewell, you flow'rs, whofe buds with eatly cap I watch'd, and to the chearful fun did rear Who now thall bind your flems 2 or, when you fall With fountain ftreams your fainting fouls recal] :Th low'ring fprin lavif wit rai Beats down the flender ffem and bearded grain, Dry 2. Family; race; generation. Pedigree are drawn in the form of a branchin tree 1 will 2ffay her worth to celebrate And fo attend ye toward her glittering ftate Where ye may all, that are of noble flem Approach Miltsy Whotoever will undertake the imperial diadem muft have of his own wherewith to fupport i which is one of the reafons that it hath continue thefe two ages and more in that flem, now fo muc {poken of & Hovel's Vocal Forefl Doft thou in hounds afpire to deathlefs fame Learn well their lineage and their ancient ffor ‘Tlu{‘i} 3. Progeny ; branch of a family This is fle Of that vi&orious ftock, and let us fea His native mightinefe Shakefpeare's Henry V 4. [ fammen, Swedifh.] The prow or forepartofa fhip Orante's barque, ev'n in the hero‘s‘ view From flem to ftern by waves was overborn Dryd. To STEM. . a. [ femma, Hlandick.] T oppofe a current ; to pafs crofs or forwar notwithftanding the ftream the trading flood wide Ethiopian to the cape Milto nightly tow'rd the pole deep they raife their fcaly crefts flood with their erected breafts Denba In fhipping fuch as this, the Irith ker They o Through th Ply, flemmin Above th And flem th And untaught Indian on the ftream did gll'dc Ere fharp-keel'd boats to ffem the flood did lezl'; Or fin-like oars did fpread from either ,fide. Diyd At length Erafmus, that great injur'd name Stemm'd the wild torrent of a barb'rous agey Pefe And drove thofe holy Vandals eff the ftage STENCH 2 /. [from jzencan, Saxon. 1. A ftink; a bad fmell h a d l v l a b i a o h a d h Dea Thou odoriferous ffench, found rot.tcnnc.fs], Avife forth from thy couchof lafting night Sba&gf[)cmm's'/&l" 7cbfl <N l o i n g vv v So bees with fmokc, and d a a n d s ' u h a v h e t o Are f Phyficians, by the fench of 'fea[thrS‘y /c;lilj'w}' rifing of the mother Bacor's 1\"'"'."}‘ i },,m The miniftery will be found the faltoft ':/ o f m o i e c f e k a t the thin and corruption The hoary Na s o f o c e f t Corrupted throw ed cvcurrent i s c i e ec in th a r f er Ti int An |
