These obstacles his genius had turned into stepping- stones.
Macaulay.
That men may rise on stepping-stones Of their dead selves to higher
things.
Tennyson.
Step"sis`ter (?), n. A daughter of one's stepfather or stepmother by a
former marriage.
Step"son` (?), n. [AS. steópsunu.] A son of one's husband or wife by a
former marriage.
Step"stone` (?), n. A stone laid before a door as a stair to rise on in
entering the house.
-ster (?). [OE. & AS. -estre, -istre.] A suffix denoting the agent
(originally a woman), especially a person who does something with skill
or as an occupation; as in spinster (originally, a woman who spins),
songster, baxter (= bakester), youngster.
Brewing, baking, and weaving were formerly feminine labors, and
consequently brewster, baxter, and webster meant, originally, the woman
(not the man) who brews, bakes, or weaves. When men began to perform
these duties the feminine appellations were retained.
Ster`co*bi"lin (?), n. [L. stercus dung + E. bilin.] (Physiol. Chem.) A
coloring matter found in the fæces, a product of the alteration of the
bile pigments in the intestinal canal, -- identical with
hydrobilirubin.
Ster"co*lin (?), n. [L. stercus dung + oleum oil.] (Physiol. Chem.)
Same as Serolin (b).
Ster`co*ra"ceous (?), a. [L. stercus, -oris, dung.] Of or pertaining to
dung; partaking of the nature of, or containing, dung.
Ster"co*ra*nism (?), n. (Eccl. Hist.) The doctrine or belief of the
Stercoranists.
Ster"co*ra*nist (?), n. [LL. stercoranista, fr. L. stercus, -oris,
dung.] (Eccl. Hist.) A nickname formerly given to those who held, or
were alleged to hold, that the consecrated elements in the eucharist
undergo the process of digestion in the body of the recipient.
Ster`co*ra"ri*an (?), n. A Stercoranist.
Ster"co*ra*ry (?), n. [LL. stercorarium, from L. stercorarius belonging
to dung.] A place, properly secured from the weather, for containing
dung.