Steg (stg), n. [Icel. steggr the male of several animals. Cf. Stag.]
(Zoöl.) A gander. [Written also stag.] [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.
Steg`a*nog"ra*phist (?), n. One skilled in steganography; a
cryptographer.
Steg`a*nog"ra*phy (?), n. [Gr. &?; covered (fr. &?; to cover closely) +
-graphy.] The art of writing in cipher, or in characters which are not
intelligible except to persons who have the key; cryptography.
||Steg`a*noph*thal"ma*ta (?), n. pl. [NL., from Gr. &?; covered + &?;
||the eye.] (Zoöl.) The Discophora, or Phanerocarpæ. Called also
||Steganophthalmia.
Ste*gan"o*pod (?), n. (Zoöl.) One of the Steganopodes.
||Steg`a*nop"o*des (?), n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. &?;, &?;, web-footed; &?;
||covered + &?; foot.] (Zoöl.) A division of swimming birds in which
||all four toes are united by a broad web. It includes the pelicans,
||cormorants, gannets, and others.
Steg`a*nop"o*dous (?), a. (Zoöl.) Having all four toes webbed together.
||Steg*no"sis (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr. &?;. See Stegnotic.] (Med.)
||Constipation; also, constriction of the vessels or ducts.
Steg*no"tic (?), a. [Gr. &?;, fr. &?; to cover, to make costive, fr.
&?;, &?;, covered, closed.] (Med.) Tending to render costive, or to
diminish excretions or discharges generally. -- n. A stegnotic
medicine; an astringent.
||Steg`o*ceph"a*la (stg`*sf"*l), n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. ste`gh roof +
||kefalh` head.] (Paleon.) An extinct order of amphibians found fossil
||in the Mesozoic rocks; called also Stegocephali, and Labyrinthodonta.
Their teeth, in transverse sections, usually show a labyrinthiform
arrangement of the cement and dentine. The under side of the body was
covered with bony plates. Some of the Stegocephala were of very large
size, and the form of the body varied from short, stout forms to others
that were as slender as serpents.
||Steg`o*sau"ri*a (-s"r*), n. pl. [NL. See Stegosaurus.] (Paleon.) An
||extinct order of herbivorous dinosaurs, including the genera
||Stegosaurus, Omosaurus, and their allies.
||Steg`o*sau"rus (-rs), n. [NL., fr. Gr. ste`gh roof + say^ros a
||lizard.] (Paleon.) A genus of large Jurassic dinosaurs remarkable for
||a powerful dermal armature of plates and spines.