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which the freelyard is run out and in. This ope- confideration to find out what proportion of the ration is easy, but neceffary, because the stirrup, three weights C, D, and E, would make the rechains, and the stage on which the load is placed, petitions of the feale extend as far as poflible, haweigh fome hundreds. The outer pin is 14 ving very little of it expreffed twice, or upon two inches, and the inner one is 7 inches, diftant fcales, as is the cafe here. We fee that the space from the great nail which rests in the fheers. The correfponding to a single pound is a very sensible other arm is about 10 feet long, formed with an quantity on both fcales, being one 9th of an inch obtufe edge above. On the inclined plane on on the first two fcales, and one 20th on the last each fide of the ridge is drawn the fcale of weights two. This very ponderous machine, with its adapted to the inner pin c. The fcales corref- maffy weights, cannot be easily managed without ponding to the outer pin b are drawn on the up- fome affiftance from mechanics. It is extremely right fides. The counterpoife flides along this proper to have it fufceptible of motion out and in, arm, banging from a faddle-piece made of brass, that it may be protected from the weather, which that it may not contract rust. The motion is would foon destroy it by ruft. The contrivance made easy by means of rollers. This is neceffary, here is very effectual, and abundantly fimple. because the counterpoife is greatly above a bun- When the fteelyard is not in ufe, it is fupported dred weight. This faddle-piece has like two laps at one end by the iron-rod F, into which the upon each fide, on which are engraved vernier fcales, per end of the fheers is hooked. The upper end which divide their respective scales on the arm to of this rod has a strong hook E, and a little below quarters of a pound. Above the faddle is an at a it is pierced with a hole, in which is a very arch, from the fummit of which hangs a little ftrong bolt or pin of tempered fteel, having a rolplummet, which shows the equilibrium of the ler on each end close to the rod on each fide. fteelyard to the weigher, because the fheers are These rollers reft on two joifts, one of which is refour feet out of the houfe, and he cannot fee their prefented by MN, which traverse the building, coincidence with the needle of the fteelyard. with juft room enough between them to allow the Laftly, near the end of the long arm are two pins rod F to hang freely down. The other end O of d and e, for fufpending occafionally two cke- the fteelyard refts in the bight of a large flat book weights for continuing the fcale. Thefe are kept at the end of a chain W, which hangs down behanging on adjoining hooks, ready to be lifted on tween the joifts, and is fupported on them by a by a little tackle, which is also hooked immedi- frame with rollers H. This is connected with the ately above the pins d and e. The scales of rollers at G, which carry the fheers by means of weights are laid down on the arm as follows. Let two iron-rods, of which one only can be feen. the eke-weights appropriated to the pins d and e Thefe connect the two fets of rollers in fuch a be called D and E, and call the counterpoife C. manner that they must always move together, and Although the stirrup with its chains and stage keep their distance invariable. This motion is weigh fome hundreds, yet the length and fize of produced by means of an endless rope HIZLKVH the arm OP gives it a preponderancy of 300 lbs. paffing over the pulleys I and K, which turn beHere, then, the fcale of weights muft commence. tween the joifts, and hanging down in a bight beThe counterpoife weighs about 125 lbs. There- tween them. It is evident that by pulling on the fore, 1. When the load hangs by the pin b, 14 part LZ we pull the frame of rollers in the direcinches from the centre, the diftance from one tion GH, and thus bring the whole into the house hundred to another on the fcale is about 11 inch in the pofition marked by the dotted figure. It es, and the first scale (on the fide of the arm) is alfo plain, that by pulling on the part LK we reaches from 300 to 1200. In order to repeat or force the roller frame and the whole apparatus continue this, the eke-weight E is hung on the out again. It remains to fhow how the load is pin e, and the counterpoife C is brought back to raised from the ground and weighed. When the the mark 300; and the two together balance 1100 fteelyard is run out for ufe, the upper hook E juft pounds hanging at b. Therefore a fecond fale is enters into the ring D, which hangs from the end begun on the fide of the arm, and continued as of the great oaken lever BCA about 22 feet long, far out as the firft, and therefore its extremity turning on gudgeons at C about 5 feet from this marks 2000; that is, the counterpoife C at 2000 end. From the other end A defcends a long ironand the eke-weight E at e balance 2c00 hanging rod SR, which has one fide formed into a toothed at b. 2. To continue the fcale beyond 2000, the rack that is acted on by a frame of wheel-work load must be hung on the inner pin c. The eke- turned by an endless fcrew and winch Q. Thereweight E is taken off, and the eke-weight D is fore when the hook E is well engaged in the ring hung on its pin d. The general counterpoife be- D, a man turns the winch, and thus brings down ing now brought close to the fheers, it, together the end A of the great lever, and raises the load with the weight D at d, balance 2000 lbs. hang- 2 or 3 inches from the ground. Every thing is ing at c. A fcale is therefore begun on one of the now at liberty, and the weigher now manages his inclined planes a-top, and continued out to 4000, weights on the arm of the fteelyard till he has which falls very near to the pin d, each hundred made an equilibrium. The operation of letting pounds occupying about five inches on the arm. down the load, difengaging the fteelyard from To complete the fcale, hang on the eke-weight E the great lever, and bringing it under cover, is on its pin e, and bring back the counterpoife to performed by two men, and may be done in fucthe fheers, and the three together balance 3800 ceflion by one, and is over in five or fix minutes. hanging at c. Therefore when the counterpoife is now flid out to 4000, it must complete the balance with 5800 hanging at c. It required a little

(4.) STEEL-YARD, VERY COMPENDIOUS. The moft compendious and economical machine of this kind is one, firft used (we have heard) for weigh

ing the riders of race-horfes, and afterwards ap- be connected by a wire or flender rod, and a plied to the more reputable service of weighing weight on the other arm of the balance or steelloaded carriages. Fig. 5. is a plan of the machine. yard may be put in equilibrio with any load that KLMN is the plan of a rectangular box, which can be laid on the platform. A fmall counterhas a platform lid or cover, of fize fufficient for poife being first hung on to balance the apparatus placing the wheels of a cart or waggon. The box when unloaded, any additional weight will meais about a foot deep, and is funk into the ground fure the load really laid on the platform. If a b be till the platform cover is even with the furface. to ac as 1 to 8, and EO to EF alfo as 1 to 8, and if a In the middle of the box is an iron lever fupport- common balance be used above, 64 lbs. on the plated on the fulcrum pin i k, formed like the nail of form will be balanced by 1 lb. in the fcale, and balance, which refts with its edge on arches of every pound will be balanced by 4th of an ounce. hardened fteel firmly faftened to the bottom of This would be a very convenient partition for the box. This lever goes through one fide of the most purposes, as it would enable us to use a combox, and is furnished at its extremity with a hard mon balance and common weights to complete fteel pin Im, alfo formed to an edge below. In the machine: Or it may be made with a balance the very middle of the box it is croffed by a third of unequal arms, or with a steelyard. Some have nail of hardened steel gb, also formed to an edge, thought to improve this inftrument by using edges but on the upper fide. These three edges are in like thofe of the nails of a balance, inftead of one horizontal plane, as in a well made balance. points. But unless made with uncommon accuIn the four corners A, A', E', E, of the box are racy, they will render the balance very dull. The firmly fixed four blocks of tempered steel, having fmail deviation of the two edges A and E, or of their upper furfaces formed into spherical cavities, B and D, from perfect parallelifm to KN, is equiwell polished and hard tempered. ABCDE re- valent to a broad surface equal to the whole deviprefents the upper edge of an iron bar of confi- ation. Without extraordinary care, the machine derable ftrength, which refts on the cavities of the may be made to weigh within one 2000th part of fteel blocks in A and E, by means of two hard the truth, which is exact enough for any purpose fteel ftuds projecting from its under edge, and in commerce. It is neceffary that the points be formed into obtufe angled points or cones. These attached to the bars. Some have put the points points are in a straight line parallel to the fide KN at A and E in the blocks of fteel faftened to the of the box. The middle part C of this crooked bottom, because the cavity there lodged water or bar is faced with hard-tempered fteel below, and dirt, which foon destroyed the inftrument with is there formed into an edge parallel to AE and ruft. But this occafions a change of proportion KN, by which it refts on the upper edge of the in the firft lever by any fhifting of the crooked fteel pin gb which is in the lever. In a line pa- bars; and this will frequently happen when the rallel to AE, and on the upper fide of the crook- wheels of a loaded cart are puthed on the plated bar ACE, are fixed two ftuds or points of form. The cavity in the steel stud should have a hardened fteel B and D projecting upwards above little rim round it, and it should be kept full of half an inch. The platform cover has four fhort oil. In a nice machine a quarter of an inch of feet like a stool, terminated by hard fteel ftuds, which are shaped into spherical cavities and well polished. With these it refts on the 4 fteel points B, B', D', D. The bar ACE is kneed in fuch a manner vertically, that the points A, B, D, E and the edge C are all in a horizontal plane. These particulars will be better understood by looking at the elevation in fig. 6. What has been said of the bar ACE must be understood as alfo faid of the bar A'C'E'. Draw through the centre of the Lox the line ab e perpendicular to the line AE, BD. It is evident that the bar ACE is equivalent to a lever abc, having the fulcrum or axis AE refting with its extremity C on the pin bg and loaded at b. It is alfo evident that a C is to ab as the load on this lever to the preffure which it exerts on the pin gb, and that the fame proportion fubfifts between the whole load on the platform and the preffure which it exerts on the pin gh. It will alfo appear, on an attentive confideration, that this proportion is no-wife deranged in whatever manner the load is placed on the platform. If very unequably, the two ends of the pin gb may be unequally preffed, and the lever wrenched and ftrained a little; but the total preffure is not changed. If there be now placed a balance or steelyard at the fide LK, in fuch a manner that one end of it may be directly above the pin Im in the end of the lever EOF, they may

quicksilver would effectually prevent all thefe inconveniencies. The fimpleft and most economical form of this machine is to have no balance or fecond steelyard; but to make the firft fteclyard EOF a lever of the first kind, viz. having the fulcrum between O and F, and allow it to project far beyond the box. The long or outward arm of this lever is then divided into a scale of weights, commencing at the fide of the box. A counterpoise must be chosen, such as will, when at the beginning of the scale, balance the smallest load that will probably be examined. It will be convenient to carry on this fcale by means of eke-weights hung on at the extremity of the lever, and to use but one moveable weight. By this method the divifions of the fcale will have always one value. The beft arrangement is as follows: Place the mark O at the beginning of the fcale, and let it extend only to 100, if for pounds; or to 112, if for cwts.; or to 10, if for ftones; and let the ekeweights be numbered 1, 2, 3, &c. Let the lowest weight be marked on the beam. This is always to be added to the weight fhown by the operation. Let the eke-weights stand at the end of the beam, and let the general counterpoife always hang at O. When the cart is put on the platform, the end of the beam tilts up. Hang on the heavieft ekeweight that is not fufficient to prefs it down. Now complete the balance by fliding out the Ddd 2

counter

counterpoife. Suppole the constant load to he 312 lb. and that the counterpoife ftands at 86, and that the eke-weight is 9; we have the load 986+3121298 ibs.

(1.)* STEEN, or STEAN. n. f. A veffel of clay or tone. Ainsworth.

(2) STFEN, John, an eminent Dutch painter, born at Leyden, in 1636. He was the difciple of Brower and Van Goyen. He painted converfations and droll fubjects with admirable humour; and died in 1689.

STEENKIRK,

STEENBERG, a town of the Batavian repubJic, in the dep. of Dommel and Scheldt and late prov. of Dutch Brabant; feated on a canal, and defended by a fort; 7 miles NE. of Bergen op Zoom, and 17 W. of Breda. Lon. 4. 28. E. Lat. 51. 32. N. STEENKERQUE, or a village of the French S empire, in the dep. of Jemappes, and ci-devant prov. of Auftrian Hainault, 15 miles N. of Mons, and 16 W. of Bruffels: famous for the defeat of K. Wiliam III. and the allied troops, by the French under the D. of Luxemburg; on the 24th July 1692. The allies loft 7000 men, among whom were Gen. Mackay, the E. of Angus, Sir R. Douglas, and Sir J. Launier: The French loft 3000, among whom were the Prince of Turenne, the marquis Bellefonds, Fermaçon, Tilladet, and other officers. It is feated on the Sonneque, near ENGHIEN.

STEENSOORDE, a town of France, in the dep. of the North; 4 miles E. of Callel, and 10 W. of Ypres.

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STEENWICK, or a town of the Batavian reSTEENWYCK, public, in the dep. of the Yffel, and ci-devant prov. of Overyffel; feated on the Aa, 20 miles SE. of Slooten, and 32 N. of Deventer. In 1582, it was taken by the duke of Parma, and the Protestant inhabitants flaughter ed. In 1592, it was retaken by Prince Maurice. Lon. 5. 5o. E. Lat. 52. 50. N.

(1.)* STEEP. adj.heap, Saxon.] Rifing or defcending with great inclination; precipitous.→ The feep places fhall fall. Ezek.

He now had conquer'd Anxur's fleep ascent. Addifon. (2.) STEEP. n. f. Precipice; afcent or defcent approaching to perpendicularity.—

s that Theban monfter that propos'd Her riddle, and him, who solv'd it not, devour'd; That once found out-and folv'd, for grief and fpight

Caft herself headlong from the limenian Aleep. Milton.

High turrets for their airy freep Require foundations, in proportion deep. Dryd. The next headlong freep of anarchy. Dryd. We had on each fide naked rocks and mountains, broken into a thousand irregular fleeps and precipices. Addison.

Where common fhores a lulling murmur keep, Whose torrents ruth from Holborn's fatal fleep. Gay. * To STEEP. v. a. [ flippen, Dutch.] To foak; t macerates to imbrue; to dip.

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When his brother faw the red blood trail Adown fo faft, and all his armour steep, For very fellness loud ke 'gan to weep. Spener.

He, like an adder, lurking in the weeds, His wand'ring thought in deep defire does fleep.

A napkin fleeped in the harmless blood Of fweet young Rutiand.

Spenfer

Shak.

The conquering wine hath feep'd our fenfe In foft and delicate Lethe.

Shak.

Many dream not to find, neither deserve, And yet are fleep'd in favours.

Shak.

Four days will quickly steep themfelves in night.
Shak.

Moft of the fleepings are cheap things. Bacon.In large forgetful draughts to freep the cares Of their paft labours and their inkfome years. Dryden. -Wheat fleeped in brine twelve hours prevents the fmuttinefs, Mortimer.

STEEPHOLM, an ifland in the Bristol Channel, mid-way between England and Wales. Lon. 3. 7. W. Lat. 51. 19. N.

(1.) * STEEPLE. n. f. [fteopel, flypel, Saxon.] A turret of a church generally furnifhed with belis. A spire.You cataracts and hurricanes spout

Till you have drench'd our feeples, drown'd the cocks. Shak. -What was found in many places, and preached for wheat fallen on the ground from the clouds, was but the feed of ivy berries, and though found in fleeples or high places, might be conveyed thither or muted by birds. Brown.-A raven I faw feeple high. L'Etrange.

They, far from fleeples and their facred found, In fields their fullen conventicies found. Dryd. (2.) STEEPLES are erected generally on the W. end of churches. They are denominated from their form, either fpires or toavers: the first are fuch as afcend continually diminishing either copically or pyramidally; the latter are mere paral elopipeds, and are covered a-top platform like.

* STEEPLY. adv. [from steep.] With precipitous declivity.

* STEEPNESS. n. f. [from fleep.] Precipitous declivity. The craggedness or steepness of that mountain maketh many parts of it inacceffible. Brerewood.-Lord Lovel fwam over Trent on horfeback, but could not recover the farther fide, by reafon of the fleepness of the bank, and fo was drowned. Bacon.-Vineyards, meadows, and cornfields lie on the borders and run up all the fides of the Alps, where the barrennefs of the rocks, or the fleepness of the afcent will fuffer them. Addif.

STEEPY. adj. from fleep.] Having a preci pitous declivity. A poetical word for fleep.

Who hath difpos'd, but thou, the winding way,

Where fprings down from the fleepy craggs do beat?

Wotton.

A prophet fome, and fome a poet cry,
From fleepy Othrys' top to Pylus drove
His herd; and for his pains enjoy'd his love.
Dryden.

No more, my goats, fhall I behold you climb The ferpy cliffs. Dryden. * STEER. 2. f. [Ayre, fteor, ftiore, Saxon; fier, Dutch.] A young bullock.-They think themfeives half exempted from law and obedience; and having once tafled freedom, do, like

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Lacaon, Neptune's pricft,
With folemn pomp then facritic'd a fleer. Dryd.
Nor has the fleer,

At whofe ftrong cheft the deally tiger hangs,
E'er plow'd for him.

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Thomson. (1.) To STEFR. v. a. { fteoran, styran, Saxon; fieren, Dutch.] To direct; to guide in a paflage: originally und of a fhip, but applied to other things.

A comely palmer, clad in black attire, That with a ftaff his feeble fteps did fleer. Spen!. -If a pilot cannot fee the pole ftar, it can be no fault in him to feer his course by fuch flars as do beft appear to him. King Charles.

(2.) To STEER. V. n. 1. To direct a courfe

at fea.

STE a feer that hath been long out of his yoke, grudge tional velocity in every inftant of their motion, and repine ever after to come under rule again. and demand a more powerful impulfe of the helm Spenfer.to reduce them; the application of which will operate to turn her bead as far on the contrary fide of her course. The phrases used in fteering a ship vary according to the relation of the wind to her courfe. Thus, if the wind is fair or large, the phrases used by the pilot or officer who superintends the fteerage are, port, ftorboard, and steady. The firft is intended to direct the fhip's courie father to the right; the fecond is to guide her farther to the left; and the laft is defigned to keep her exactly in the line where on the advances according to the course prescribed. The excefs of the first and fecond movement is called hard-a-port, and hard-a-farboard; the former of which gives her the greateft poffible inclination to the right, and the latter an equal tendency to the left. If, on the other hand, the wind is foul or fcant, the phrafes are, luff, thus, and no nearer the firft of which is the order to keep her close to the wind; the fecond, to retain her in her present fituation; and the third, to keep her fails fuil. In a ship of war, the exercife of fteering the thip is ufually divided among a number of the most expert failors, who attend the helm in their turns; and are accordingly called TIMONEERS, from the French timonier, which fignifies helmsman. The ftcerage is conftantly supervised by the quarter-mafters, who alfo attend the helm by rotation. In merchant fhips every feaman takes his turn in this fervice, being directed therein by the mate of the watch, or fome other officer.-As the safety of a thip, and all contained therein, depends in a great measure on the fteerage or effects of the helm, the apparatus by which it is managed should often be diligently examined by the proper officers. Indeed, a negligence in this important duty appears almost unpardonable, when the fatal effects which may refult from it are duly confidered.

As when a fhip, by skilful steerfinan wrought, Nigh river's mouth, or foreland, where the wind Veers oft, as oft so fleers, and shifts her fail. Milton. In a creature, whofe thoughts are more than the fands, fancy and paffion muft needs run him into strange courses, if reason, which is his only ftar and compass be not that he fteers by. Locke. 2. To conduct himself.

(1.) * STEERAGE. n. f. (from steer.] 1. The act or practice of fteering.-Having got his veffel launched, he committed the fleerage of it to fuch as he thought capable of conducting it. Spellator. 2. Direction; regulation of a course.

He that hath the fleerage of my course, Direct my fuit.

Shak. Romeo and Juliet.

3. That by which any courfe is guided.— Here he hung on high,

The fleerage of his wings.

Dryden.

4. Regulation, or management of any thing.You raise the honour of the peerage, Proud to attend you at the fleerage.

5. The ftern or hinder part of the ship.

Swift.

(2.) STEERAGE, on board a ship, is that part of the fhip next below the quarter-deck, before the bulk head of the great cabin where the steersman stands, in most ships of war. See STEERING.

STEERING, part. n. f. in navigation, the art of directing the ship's way by the movements of the helm; or of applying its efforts to regulate her course when the advances. The perfection of fteering confifts in a vigilant attention to the motion of the thip's head, fo as to check every deviation from the line of her course in the first instant of its motion; and in applying as little of the power of the helm as poffible. By this the will run more uniformly in a ftraight path, as declining lefs to the right and left; whereas, if a greater effort of the helm is employed, it will produce a greater declination from the courfe, and not only increase the difficulty of steering, but alto make a crooked and irregular tract through the water. See HELM. The helmfman fhould diligently watch the movements of the head by the land, clouds, moon, or ftars; because, although the course is in genera! regulated by the compafs, yet the vibrations of the needle are not fo quickly perceived as the falTies of the fhip's head to the right or left, which, if not immediately reftrained, will acquire addi.

STEERSMAN. n. f. [fteer and man, or STEERSMATE. mate.] A pilot; one who steers a fhip.

What pilot fo expert but needs muft wreck, Embark'd with such a fleerfmate at the helm. Milton.

In a ftorm, a skilful fleerfman will yet bear up against it. L'Lftrange.

Through it the joyful fleerfman clears his way.
Dryden.

STEEVENS, George, the most successful of all the editors and commentators of Shakespeare, was born in 1735. His parents were in affluent encumftances. George received the rudiments of his claffical education at Kingston upon Thames, under the tuition of Dr Woodefon and his aflit ants; and bad for a companion at that school Gibbon the historian. From Kingston he went to Eton, whence, after fome years, he was admitted a fellow-commoner of King's College, Cambridge. After he left the univerfity, he accepted a commiflion in the Effex militia on its firft eftablishment: and he spent the latter years of his life at Hampstead in almost tota feclufion from the world; feldom mixing with fociety but in the fhops of bookfellers, in the Shakespeare Gallery, or in the morning conversations of Sir Joseph Banks, He died January 1800. Mr Steevens was a ciaffi

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Suabia, in the electorate of Baden: 5 miles WSW.
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of Gerfpach, and 38 W. of Stuttgard.

cal fcholar of the first order. He was equally ac-
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quainted with the beiles lettres of Europe. He
had ftudied hiftory, ancient and modern, but par-
ticularly that of his own country. He poffeffed a
trong original genius, and an abundant wit; his
imagination was of every colour, and his fenti
nients were enlivened with the moft brillant ex-
pretlions. Mr Steevens poffeffed a very handfome
fortune, and his generosity was equal to his for-

tune.

STEFANESCHI, John Baptift, an hiftorical painter, born at Florence, in 1582. He was much cfteemed and patronized by Ferdinand II. duke of Tufcany, for whom he painted feveral facred fubjects in miniature. He died in 1659.

STEFANO, J. an eminent Italian painter, born in Florence, in 1301, and heuce called Florentino. He was the difciple of Giotto, and became fuperior to all his cotemporaries except his master. One of his best pictures is of Chrift delivering the dæmoniac. He died in 1650, aged 49. STEFFI. a town of Franconia, in Anfpach. STEGANIUM. See SLATE.

* STEGANOGRAPHIST. n. . [siyvos and yeap.] He who practises the art of fecret writing. Bailey.

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(1.) STEGANOGRAPHY. n. f. [sayas and reap.] The art of fecret writing by characters or cyphers, intelligible only to the perfons who correfpond one with another. Bailey.

(2.) STEGANOGRAPHY. See CIPHER. STEGEBURG, a town of Sweden, in E. Gothland, on the Baltic, with a harbour: 25 miles S. of Nikoping, and 82 SW. of Stockholm. Lon. 16. 40. E. Lat. 58. 16. N.

(1.) STEGEN, a town of Holftein.

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(2.) STEGEN, a town of Norway, in Drontheim. STEGNOTICK. adj. [.] Binding; sendering coftive. Bailey.

(1.) STEIN, a town of the Helvetic republic, in the canton of Zurich. About 1524 the inhabitants embraced Proteftant principles. It is feated on the N. bank of the Rhine, near the lake of Conftance; 25 miles NE. of Zurich, and 15 W. of Conftance. Lon. 8. 48. E. Lat. 47. 32. N.

(2-5.) STEIN, 4 towns of Germany: 1. in Carinthia, on the Drave; 2 miles S, of Clagenfurt: 2. in Carniola, on the Feistritz; 10 miles N. of Laybach: 3. in Upper Saxony, and iordfhip of Schonberg; 7 miles SE. of Zwickau: 4. in the circle of the Upper Rhine, on the E. or right bank of the Rhine, 4 miles N. of Worms. It was in the late bishopric of Worms, and by the divifion of the indemnities, in 1802, was allotted to the landgrave of Heffe-Darmstadt. See REVOLUTION, § VIII.

STEINACH, 2 rivers of Germany, in Wirtemburg, both running into the Neckar ; the one near. Nurtingen; the other near Tubingen.

STEINAM. See SZOMBATH.

STEINAU, a town of Silefia, capital of a circle fo named, with 2 churches, aod cloth manufactures. It has been 4 times facked and burnt, in different wars; particularly in 1345, by the Poracks, and in 1633, by the Imperialifts. It is 20 miles SE. of Great Glogaw.

(1) STEINBACH, a town of Germany, in

(2-4.) STEINBACH, 3 other towns of Germafau-Dillenburg, 6 miles NW. of Dillenburg: 3. ny: 1. in Auftria, 6 miles S. of Steyr: 2. in Nafin Upper Saxony, 6 miles SE. of Wolkenstein. in Calenberg; near Minden. STEINBERG, a mountain of Lower Saxony,

STEINHEIN, a town of Germany, in the Maine, with a castle, 9 miles from Franckfort. It late archbishopric of Mentz, on a hill near the appears to be allotted to the prince of Hohenlohe. Lon. 8. 54. E. Lat. 49. 52. N.

STEKE, a town of Denmark, on the N. coaft
infulated by a lake.
of the ifle of Mona, with a ftrong caftle; almost

talk; a handle.
* STELĖ. n. ƒ. [ftela, Sax. ftele, Dutch.] A

lic, in the dep. of Dommel and Scheldt, and ci-
STELIIOVEN, a town of the Batavian repub-
devant province of Dutch Brabant; 3 miles SW.
of Gertruydenburg.

by Dean Swift to Mrs Johnson, an amiable lady, (1.) STELLA, [Lat. i. e. a ftar.] a name given whom he long loved, and at last married; but as wife, nor cohabited with her as fuch, the broke he never publicly acknowledged her to be his her heart from the difappointment. The moft plaufible reafon, affigned for his ftrange conduct in this affair, is that he had discovered, that the was his fifter. See SWIFT, N° 1.

in Lake Garda, in the dep. of Mincio, diftrict at d (2.) STELLA, an island in the kingdom of Italy,' late duchy of Verona: 14 miles NW. of Verona.

(3.) STELLA, a river of Maritime Auftria, in of Prifenis. Friuli; which runs into the Adriatic, 4 miles SSE.

(4.) STELLA, a town of Naples, in Prinicpato Citra; 27 miles SW. of Congiano.

er, born at Lyons, in 1596. He ftudied painting (5.) STELLA, James, a celebrated French paintearly, and at 20 went to Rome. In paffing thro Florence, Cosmo De Medicis, the great duke, employed him, gave him lodgings, and a penfion. tronifed by Lews XIII. who gave him a good penHe afterwards went to Paris, where he was pafion, lodgings in the Louvre, and honoured him with the order of St Michael. He died in 1647.

James, was born at Lyons, in 1601, and travelled
(6.) STELLA, Francis, brother and difciple of
with his brother into Italy; but, though a good
painter, he never equalled James. He died in
1661.

IGNIS FATUUS, METEOR, and METEOROLOGY.
(7.) STELLA CADENS, or FALLING STAR. See
(8.) STELLA MARINA. See MYTILUS, N°
ting to the ftars.-
* STELLAR. adj. [from ftella.] Aftral; rela-

In part shed down

Their ftellar virtue, on all kinds that grow.

4.

fected cubes, and regular figures of minerals, as
-Salt diffolved, upon fixation, returns to its af-
Milton.
the hexagonal of cryftal, and fellar figure of the
ftone afteria. Glanville.

weed, in botany, a genus of plan's belonging to
STELLARIA, STITCHWORT, or Great Chick-

the

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