Ste`re*o*typ"ic (?), a. Of or pertaining to stereotype, or stereotype
plates.
Ste"re*o*ty`pist (?), n. A stereotyper.
Ste`re*o*ty*pog"ra*pher (?), n. A stereotype printer.
Ste`re*o*ty*pog"ra*phy (?), n. [Stereo- + typography.] The act or art
of printing from stereotype plates.
Ste"re*o*ty`py (?), n. [Cf. F. stéréotypie.] The art or process of
making stereotype plates.
Ster`hy*drau"lic (?), a. [Stereo- + hydraulic.] Pertaining to, or
designating, a kind of hydraulic press; resembling such a press in
action or principle.
Sterhydraulic press, an hydraulic press producing pressure or motion by
the introduction of a solid substance (as a long rod, or a cord wound
on a roller) into a cylinder previously filled with a liquid.
Ster"ile (?), a. [F. stérile, L. sterilis, akin to Gr. stereo`s stiff,
solid, stei^ros barren, stei^ra a cow that has not calved, Goth. stair,
fem., barren. See Stare to gaze.] 1. Producing little or no crop;
barren; unfruitful; unproductive; not fertile; as, sterile land; a
sterile desert; a sterile year.
2. (Biol.) (a) Incapable of reproduction; unfitted for reproduction of
offspring; not able to germinate or bear fruit; unfruitful; as, a
sterile flower, which bears only stamens. (b) Free from reproductive
spores or germs; as, a sterile fluid.
3. Fig.: Barren of ideas; destitute of sentiment; as, a sterile
production or author.
Ste*ril"i*ty (?), n. [L. sterilitas: cf. F. stérilité.] 1. The quality
or condition of being sterile.
2. (Biol.) Quality of being sterile; infecundity; also, the state of
being free from germs or spores.
Ster`il*i*za"tion (?), n. (Biol.) The act or process of sterilizing, or
rendering sterile; also, the state of being sterile.
Ster"il*ize (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Sterilized (?); p. pr. & vb. n.
Sterilizing (?).] [Cf. F. stériliser.] 1. To make sterile or
unproductive; to impoverish, as land; to exhaust of fertility. [R.]
"Sterilizing the earth." Woodward.
2. (Biol.) (a) To deprive of the power of reproducing; to render
incapable of germination or fecundation; to make sterile. (b) To
destroy all spores or germs in (an organic fluid or mixture), as by
heat, so as to prevent the development of bacterial or other organisms.
Ster"let (?), n. [Russ. sterliade.] (Zoöl.) A small sturgeon (Acipenser
ruthenus) found in the Caspian Sea and its rivers, and highly esteemed
for its flavor. The finest caviare is made from its roe.
Ster"ling (?), n. (Engin.) Same as Starling, 3.
Ster"ling, n. [OE. sterlynge, starling, for easterling, LL.
esterlingus, probably from Easterling, once the popular name of German
trades in England, whose money was of the purest quality: cf. MHG.
sterlink a certain coin. Cf. East. "Certain merchants of Norwaie,
Denmarke, and of others those parties, called Ostomanni, or (as in our
vulgar language we tearme them), easterlings, because they lie east in
respect of us." Holinshed. "In the time of . . . King Richard the
First, monie coined in the east parts of Germanie began to be of
especiall request in England for the puritie thereof, and was called
Easterling monie, as all inhabitants of those parts were called
Easterlings, and shortly after some of that countrie, skillful in mint
matters and allaies, were sent for into this realme to bring the coine
to perfection; which since that time was called of them sterling, for
Easterling." Camden. "Four thousand pound of sterlings." R. of
Gloucester.] 1. Any English coin of standard value; coined money.
So that ye offer nobles or sterlings.
Chaucer.
And Roman wealth in English sterling view.
Arbuthnot.