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Show SYT''E Who was the firft to explore th® untrodden path g, I find it ufed once for a good {mell When life was hazarded in every flep ¢ Addif. Cato Black bulls and bearded goats on altars lie Dryd fky th v invo flenc fav'r o cloud An u n t r [ 4 @ C E S % g 1. To mak ufe wath fenchet onl pond th o foulnef Th Mortimer Lter 2. One remove in climbing ; hold for th foot ; a ftair proper, or in No to ftink t To ftop 2. [for Jfaunch, corruptly. hinder to flow While Solyman lay at Buda, feven bloody head , of bithops flain in battle were fet in order upon wooden flep Knolles The breadth of every fingle ffcp or ftair fhoul be never lefs than ome foot, nor more than eightee inches "ok STENO' RAPHY 7?._/ [s‘wo an And on the fubje@ world look'd fafely down By Marlbro® pafs'd, the props and ffeps were mad Sublimer yet to raife his queen's renown Prior t was a faying among the ancients,T'ruth lies i a well; and, to- carry on: this metaphor, we ma juftly fay, that logick does fupply us with feps wherebywe may go down to reach the water. #atts 7ga<pw. Short-hand a f o h a g n f r c a t The princely eagle fhrunk into a bat Cleaveland Wotton Thofe heights where William's virtue might hav ftaid it fenc tha bloo le t {kil bette ha The King Chailes Reftringents to fench, and incraflatives to thick on pt fu Co o we Ha en, the Lloed S grENnTOROPHO NICK. adj. [from Stentor 3. Quantity of {pace pafled or meafure by one removal of the foot as lond as that of fifty men, and @uws, The gradus, a Roman mealure, may be tranflate the Homerica wn herald, whofe voice wa voice.] Loudly {peaking or founding a flep, or the half of a paffus or pace Arbuthnot on Coins Of this flentorophonick horn (.)f Alexander ther is a figure preferved in the Vatican Derhan's Phyfico-Theology 4. A fmall length 1 3o STEP. @ #. [yeeeppan, Saxon ; fap 5. [In the plural. a fmall fpace There is but a ffep between me and death 1 Sa. xx. 3 pen, Dutch. Walk; paffage Dryden's Zneid In this deep foreft 7. Progreflion ; aé& of advancing To derive two or three gencral principles of mo Foe Ve 4 fiepped in, was made w.h(.)le Ventidius latel Buried his father, by whofe death he's fepp' 1% 3. To move mentally To.go 5. To come as it were by chance The old poets /fzp in to the affiftance of the me Aadifon dalift 8. To take a fhort walk Sec where he comes T'll know his grievance fo, pleafe you, ffep afide Shak. Romeo and Fulict My brothers, when they faw me wearied out Stepp'd, as they. faid, to the next thicket fid Milton To bring me berries When your mafter wants a fervant who happen to be*abroad, anfwer, that he had-but that minut Savift [ept out # 7. To walk gravely, flowly, or refolutely Pyrrhus, the moft ancient of all the bafhaws 3 Jiept forth, and, appealing unto his mercies, earneltly requefted him to fpare his life Knolles's Hiftory of the Turks 2 When you ffé/p'dforth, how did the moniter rage Infeorn of your {oftlooks and tender age ! Cowwley Home the {wain retreats His flock before him flepping, to the fold Thomfon's Summer STEP. #. /. [reeep, Saxon; fap, Dutch. 1. Progreflion by one removal of the foot Thou found and firm-fet earth Hear not,my fleps, which way they. walk k Shake[peare's Macbet Ling'ring perdition, worfe than any deat an be at once, {hall fep by flep atten Shakefpeare's Tempaft Youiand your ways ho the propertie an and afterward to tell u of all corporea action One injury is beft defended by a fecond, and thi by a third: by thefe fleps the old mafters of th palace in France became mafters of the kingdom and by thefe ffeps a general during pleafure migh have grown into a general for life, and a genera Sawift for life into a king The querift muft not proceed too fwiftly toward to walk 1 am in blood t fo far, that {heuld I wade no more Stepi Returning weie as tedious as go o'er Shakefpeare's Macbheth fro of thofe principles were not yet difcovered, Nezvton When a perfon is hearing a fermon, he may giv his thoughts leave to ffep back fo far as to recollec s t W ds he er fe th They are fepping almoft three thoufand year hack into the remotefkt antiquity, the only true mirrourof that ancient world. Pope's Pref. 1o the Iliad ph@nomena tio things follow from thofe manifeft principles, woul be a very great ffep in philofophy, though the caufe Shakefpeare's Timon Into a great eftate Her love fhe turn'd to hate the determination of his point, that he may wit more eafe draw the learner to thofe principles fle by flep arife fro whenc fina th conclufion wil Watts 8. Footftep; print of the foot From hence Aftrea took her flight, and her The prints of her departing ffeps appear, Dryd. Virg Gait ; manner of walking 9 Sudden rfrom the golden thron With a fubmillive.ffep 1 hafted down The glowing garland from my hair I took Love in my heart, obedience in my look 10 A&io Prior ; inftance of conduét The reputation of 2 man depends upon the firf Pope Jfeps he makes in the world ‘STEP, in compofition fignifies one who i related only by marriage. [y<zeop Saxon, from-jcepan, 1o deprive, Or mak an orphan :. for the Saxons not only fai a flep-mother, buta fep-daughter, or fep Jon 3 to which it indeed,. according t this etymology, more properly belongs but as it is now feldo applied but t the mother, it feems to mean, in th mind. of thofe who ufe it, a woman wh has flepped into the vacant place. of th true mother. How-fhould their minds chufe but mifdoubt, lef this difcipline, which always you matc vin doétrin a her" natura an tru Spenfer You fhall not find me, daughter After the flander of moft ffep-mothers Shakefpeare's Cymbelirie Ill-eyed unto you Shakefp A father cruel, and a flep-dame talfe Cato the elder, being aged, buried his wife, an : his fon-came to him, an married a young woma faid, Sir, wha I offended hav hav that yo brought a flep-mother into your houfe? The ol man anfwered, Nay, quite the contrary, fon; tho pleafeit me fo well, as I would be glad to have mor fuch BaconeThe name of flep-dame, your pratis'd art 1¢'d my father's heart By which you ha All you have done againft me, or defign Shows your averfion, but begets not mine Dryden's Aurengzi A flep-dame too I have, a curfed fhe Who rules. my hen-peck'd fire, and orders me Diyden Any body would have guefied Mifs to have bee bred up under the influence of a cruel fep-danme and John to be the fondling of a tender mother Arbutbnot's Hiftory of Fobn Bull STEPPINGSTONE . /. [ ffep and flone. Stone laid to catch the foot, and {ave i flepping flones to fave a firide Lik Conduét my fleps to find the fatal tie Whofoever firft, after the troubling the water But, when fhe {aw her offer'd fweets refufe from wet or dirt o 6 Gradat degree a t r f f d e o p One of our nation hat an ffep fundr hat fubftanc fo fi fam Th i n r i s n w Be was- able, by the help o becomet ma on wiereo refpec i degrees m t a d pace, to ffep conftantly ten ya Perkins another tha offende heinou mor c g a M i a e t M s' ki Wi 2. To advance by a fudden progreflion His wanton fiep-dame loved him the more O may thy pow'r, propitious ftill to e . 1, To move by a fingle change of the plac of the foot o S T with di fifter b found unte all kinds of knowledge o J/.";"b-w'}/y/:':l‘ dooker In ftreets where kennels are too wide Savift STERCORACEOUS.adj.[ ffercoracens, Lat. Belonging to dung; partaking of -th nature of dung Green juicy vegetables in a heap together, ac quire-a heat equal to that of a human body a putrid flercoraceou tafte and odour the in tafte re fembling putrid flefh, and in fmell human fzces Arbuthnot on Aliments STeErRcOorRA TION. 7. /. [from flercora, Lat.] The a& of. dunging; the a& o manuring with dung The firft help is ffercoration : the fheeps dung i one of the beft, and the next, dung of kine an that of horfes Bacon Stercoration is feafonable Ewelyn's Kalendar The exteriour pulp of the fruit ferves not onl for. the fecurity of the feed, whilft it hangs upo the plant but,.after it is fallen upon the earth, fo the flercoration of the foil, and promotion of th growth, though not the firft germination of the feminal plant. Ray o the-Creation STEREO'GRAPHY. 7. /. [reg s'); and 75é$w 5 Jrereographie, Fr. The art of drawin the forms of folids upon a plane. Harris STEREO'METRY. 7. /. [seeeos and perpéw fereometrie, French. The art of mea" {uring allforts of folid bodies Harsis STERIL. adj. [ ferile, Fr. flerilis, Lat. Barren unfraitful produtive no wanting fecundity Our elders fay The barren touche in this holy chafe Shake off their feril curfe. Shakefp The fea marge fferi/; and ro Fulius.Czfar Shakefpeare's Tempefi In very feril years, corn fown will grow t Bacon's Nat other.kind To feparate feeds, put.them in water are corrupted and feri/ fwim Brown' She is grown fleri/ and barren of animals are now:very inconfid When the vegetative ftratu off by rains the hill woul wa once hav become b ren fcril » and mithe ftrata.below . yielding only mer of vegetablés STERILITY. 2. /- [ ferilité; Fr fro jz'c')‘i/i: Lat. B(J.rl'CHne{S wan of fecundity; unfruitfulnefs Spain is thin fown of people, by rcafo o ‘th |
