Index of English words, starting with "st"

(1) - Steed (n.) A horse, especially a spirited horse for state of war; -- used chiefly in poetry or stately prose.

(1) - Steel (n.) To cover, as an electrotype plate, with a thin layer of iron by electrolysis. The iron thus deposited is very hard, like steel.
(2) - Steel (n.) Fig.: To cause to resemble steel, as in smoothness, polish, or other qualities.
(3) - Steel (n.) To make hard or strong; hence, to make insensible or obdurate.
(4) - Steel (n.) To overlay, point, or edge with steel; as, to steel a razor; to steel an ax.
(5) - Steel (n.) A chalybeate medicine.
(6) - Steel (n.) Fig.: Anything of extreme hardness; that which is characterized by sternness or rigor.
(7) - Steel (n.) A piece of steel for striking sparks from flint.
(8) - Steel (n.) An instrument of steel (usually a round rod) for sharpening knives.
(9) - Steel (n.) A weapon, as a sword, dagger, etc.
(10) - Steel (n.) An instrument or implement made of steel
(11) - Steel (n.) A variety of iron intermediate in composition and properties between wrought iron and cast iron (containing between one half of one per cent and one and a half per cent of carbon), and consisting of an alloy of iron with an iron carbide. Steel, unlike wrought iron, can be tempered, and retains magnetism. Its malleability decreases, and fusibility increases, with an increase in carbon.

(1) - Steelhead (n.) The ruddy duck.
(2) - Steelhead (n.) A North Pacific salmon (Salmo Gairdneri) found from Northern California to Siberia; -- called also hardhead, and preesil.