which are 2. STERCULIA FOETIDA; and all foreign 3. STERCULIA PLATANIFOLIUM ;) plants. STERE, a denomination, or rather a radical part o a denomination, in the new fyftem of French Meatures, compounded like metre, litre, gramme. &c. with myria, kilo, &c. and producing the new terms, Myriaßere, kiloftere, kedoftere, decafere decifters, centiftere, and millifere. All thefe are new terms for measures of wood for fuel. See MEASURE, X. i-iii. (1.) STEREOGRAPHIC, adj. [from Aereography. Of or belonging to Stereography. (2.) STEREOGRAPHIC PROJECTION, is the projection of the circies of the sphere on the plane of fome one great circle, the eye being placed in the pole of that circle. See PROJECTION OF THE SPHERE. 1 * STEREOGRAPHY. . . [igos and yea; Aereographie, Fr.] The art of drawing the forms of folds upon a plane. Harris. pillar, and the capfule is quinquelocular, and ma-" without the tube, the internal air is compressed ny-feeded. There are three fpecies; viz. by the weight of the atmosphere, which is known 1. STERCULIA BALANGHAS; and exprefied by the length of the mercury in the tube of the common barometer. The inftrument is then to be elevated, taking care to keep the tube conftantly in the vertical pofition. It is represented in this fituation, fig. 2. fecond pofition. The mercury defcends in the tube, but not to the level of the external forface, and a column DE of mercury remains fufpended in the tube, the height of which is known by the fcale. The in terior air is therefore less compressed than before, the increase of its volume being equal to the whole capacity of the tube from C to D, which is indicated by the fecond fcale. It is known therefore that the preffures are in proportion to the barometrical column, and to the fame column diminished by the fubtraction of DE. And the bulks of the air in these two states are inversely in the fame proportion; and again the difference between thefe bulks is the abfolute quantity left void in the tube by the fail of the mercury; from which data, by an eafy analytical procefs, the following rule is deduced: Multiply the number which expreffes the iefs preflure by that which denotes the augmentation of capacity, and divide the product by the number which denotes the difference of the preffures. The quotant will be the bulk of the air when fubject to the greater preffure. To render this more eafy by an example, fuppofe the height of the mercury in the barometer to be 78 centimetres, and the inftrument being empty to be plunged in the mercury to the point C. It is then covered, and raised until the fmall column of mercury DE is fuspended, for example, at the height of lix centimetres. The internal air, which was at first compreffed by a force reprefented by 78 centimetres, is now compreffed only by a force reprefented by 78-6, or 72 centimetres. Suppofe it to be observed, at the fame time, by means of the graduations of the fecond fcale, that the capacity of the part CD of the tube which the mercury has quitted is two cubic centimetres. Then by the rule 22 X 2 give 24 cubical centimetres, which is the volume of the air included in the inftrument when the mer cury rofe as high as C in the tube. The body of which the volume is to be afcertained muft then be placed in the capfule, and the operation repeated. Suppofe, in this cafe, the column of mercury fufpended to be eight centimetres, when the capacity of the part CD of the tube is equal to two centimetres cube. Then the greatest preffure being denoted by 78 centimetres, as before, the leaft will be 70 centimetres, the diffe rence of the preffures being 8, and the difference of the volumes two cubical centimetres. Hence 20 X 2 gives the bulk of the included air under the greatest preffure 175 cubic centimetres. If therefore 175 centimetres be taken from 24 centimetres, or the capacity of the inftrument when empty, the difference 65 cubic centimetres wifl exprefs the volume of the body which was introduced. And if the abfolute weight of the body be multip'ied by its bulk in centimetres, and di vided by the abfolute weight of one cubic centimetre of diftiled water, the quotient will expres STEREOMETER, an inftrument lately invented in France for meafuring the volume of a body, however regular, without plunging it in any liquid. If the capacity of a vellel, or the volume of air contained in that veffel, be measured, when the vefiel contains air only, and alfo when the veffel contains a body whofe volume is required to be known, the volume of air afcertained by the first measurement, deducting the volume afcertained by the 2d, will be the volume of the body itself. Again, if it be admitted as a law, that the volume of any mafs of air be inversely as the preffure to which it is fubjected, the temperature being fuppofed conftant, it will be eafy to deduce, from the mathematical relations of quantity, the whole bulk, provided the difference between the two bulks under two known preffures be obtained by experiment. Let it be fuppofed, for example, that the first preflure is double the fecond, or, which follows as a confequence, that the fecond volume of the air be double the firft, and that the difference be fifty cubic inches, it is evident that the first volume of the air will likewife be fifty cubic inches. The ftereometer is intended to afcertain this difference at two known preftures. The inftrument is a kind of funnel AB (fig. 1. Plate CCCXXIX.) composed of a capfule A, in which the body is placed, and a tube B as uniform in the bore as can be procured. The upper edge of the capfule is ground with emery, that it may be hermetically clofed with a glafs cover M flightly greafed. A double fcale is pafted on the tube, having two fets of graduations; one to indicate the length, and the other the ca pacities, as determined by experiment. When this inftrument is ufed, it must be plunged in a veffel of mercury with the tube very upright, until the mercury rifes within and without to a point C of the feare. See fig. 2. The capfule is then clo fed with the cover, which being greated wih prevent all communication between the external air and that contained within the capíule and tube. In this fituation of the instrument, in which the mercury ftands at the fame height within and 70 the the fpecific gravity of the body in the common form of the tables where diftilled water is taken as unity, or the term of comparifon. After this defcription and explanation of the use of his inftrument, the author proceeds with the candour and acuteneis of a philofopher to afcertain the limits of error in the refults; an object seldom fufficiently attended to in the investigation of natural phenomena. From his refults it appears, that with the dimenfions he has affumed, and the method prescribed for operating, the errors may af fect the fecond figure. He likewife gives the formula by means of which the inftrument itself may be made to fupply the want of a barometer in afcertaining the greateft pretlure. He likewife adverts to the errors which may be produced by change of temperature. To prevent thefe as much as poffible, the actual form of the inftrument and arrangements of its auxiliary parts are fettied, as in fig. 3. by which means the approach of the hand near the vessel and its tube is avoided. In this figure the vertical pofition of the tube is fecured by the fufpenfion of the veffel, and a perforation in the table through which the tube pafles. The table itfeif fupports the capfule in its firft pofition, namely, that at which the cover is required to be put on. Mr Nicholfon, from whofe Journal this abstract is immediately taken, fuppofes, with great probability, that the author of the invention had not finished his meditations on the fubject, when the memoir giving an account of it was published. If he had, fays the ingenious journalist, it is likely that he would have determined his preffures, as well as the meafures of buiks by weight. For it may be easily understood, that if the whole inftrument were fet to its pofitions by fufpending it to one arm of a balance at Hg. 3), the quantity of counterpofe, when in equilibrio, might be applied to determine the preflures to a degree of accuracy much greater than can be obtained by linear meafurement. (1.) * STEREOMETRY. n. f. Įsigios and mergio; ftereometrie, Fr.] The art of measuring ali forts of folid bodies. Harris. (2.) STEREOMETRY, Etiquete, [of equos folid, and μg measure,] is that part of geometry which teaches how to find the folidity or folid contents of bodies; as globes, cylinders, cubes, vefleis, fhips, &c. STEREOTOMY, n. ƒ. [ rom signs, and run, fedion,] the art or act of cutting folids, or making fections thereof; as wils and other membranes in the profiles of architecture. STERIL. adj. [fterile, Fr. fterills, Lat.] Bar ren; unfruitfui; not productive; wanting fecundity. The barren, touched in this holy chafe, Shake off their feril cutie. Shak. Thy fea marge fteril, and rocky hard. Shak. -In very fteril years corn fown will grow to another kind. Bacon.-To feparate feeds, put them in water: fuch as are corrupted and steril, win. Brown. She is grown feril and barren. More.The hills would have become barren, the strata below yielding only mere fterile and mineral matter. Woodavard. (1.) * STERILITY n. f. [fterilité, Fr. fterili tas, from sterilis, Lat.] Barrennefs; want of fe cundity; unfruitfulness.-Spain is thin fown of people, by reafon of the fterility of the foil. Bacon. -An eternal ferility must have poffeffed the world, if the Almighty had not faid, Let the earth bring forth grafs, the herb yielding feed, and the fruit-tree yielding fruit, Bentley.-One cannot af cribe this to any fterility of expreffion, but to the genius of his times. Pope. (2.) STERILITY. It has been afferted by many authors, that all monfters produced by a mixture of different fpecies of animals, fuch as mules, are barren; but this does not hoid univerfally, even with the mule, which is the inftance moft generally adduced. See MULE. Sterility in women fometimes happens from a mifcarriage, or violent labour injuring fome of the genital parts; but one of the most frequent caufes is the fuppreffion of the menftruai flux.-There are other caufes arif ing from various diseases incident to those parts; by which the uterus may be unfit to receive or retain the male feed;-from the tube fallopianz being too short, or having loft their crective power; in either of which cafes no conception can take place;-from univerfal debility and relaxátion; or a local debility of the gemtal fyftem; by which means, the parts having loft their tone or contractile power, the femen is thrown off immediately poft coitum ;-from imperforation of the vagina, the uterus, or the tube, or from difcafed ova, &c. Hence medical treatment can only a vail in cafes arifing from topical or univerfal debility; in correcting irregularities of the menftrual flux, or in removing tumors, cicatrices, or conftrictions of the paffage,' by the art of furgery. *To STERILIZE. v. a. [from feril.] To make barren: to deprive of fecundity, or the power of production.-May we not as well fuppofe the fterilizing the earth was fofcended 'till the deluge became the executioner of it? Woodaward. Go! fterilize the fertile with thy rage. Savage. STERIS, in botany, a genus of plants belong ing to the class of pentandria, and order of digynia. The calyx is quinquepartite; the corðila wheel-shaped; the berry is untlocular, and manyfeeded. There is only one fpecies; viz. STERIS JAVANA, a foreign plant; a native of the ifle of Java. (1.) * STERLING. adj. [Of this word many derivations have been offered; the most probabie of which is that offered by Canden, who derives it from the Eafterlings, who were employed as coiners.] 1. An epithet by which genuine Englifh money is difcriminated. The king's treafure that he left at his death, amounted unto 1,800,000. Sterling Bacon.-Several of them would rather chufe to count out a fum in fefter. ces than in pounds flerling. Addifon. 2. Genuine; having paft the teft.-He may be fecure to find them all genuine, fterling, and authentick. Savif?. (2.) STERLING. n. f. [fterlingum, low Lat. from the adjectiv. Eng ifh coin; money -By ufetul obfervation he can tell Fffa The The facred charms that in true fterling dwell. Accept this offering to thy bounty due, (3.) STERLING, adj. among goldfmiths, is ufed fynonymously with STANDARD, and applied to gold and filver plate of the fame degree of fine hefs with the Sterling money of Great Britain: i. e. with a mixture of of copper alloy in each metal; which reduces the filver to 11 deniers, or 11 deniers 2 grains fineness per ounce. All gold finiths in both kingdoms are bound to make eve ry piece of goid or filver plate that is fold by weight, of this standard or Sterling fineness; and aay-mafters are appointed and fworn, in the principal cities in both kingdoms, to try their work and ftamp it, when found Sterling, (See ASSAY-MASTER,) and to break it down, if found deficient. Trinkets not fold by weight may be made of any degree of coarfenefs. (4.) STERLING, in geography. See STIRLING. (1.) * STERN. adj. fyn, Saxon.] 1. Severe of countenance; truculent of afpe&t.- Why look you fstili fostern and tragica!? Shak. I would outftare the ferneft eyes that look. Shak. -It fhall not be amifs here to prefent the fern but lively countenance of this fo famous a man. Knolles Gods and men Fear'd her fern frown. Miton. Stern, yet attemper'd with benignity. Harte. 2. Severe of manners; harth; unrelenting; cru el. Women are soft, miid, pitiful, and flexible; Ambition fhould be made of flerner ftuff. Shak. Immortal, be the bus'nefs of my life. Dryden. 3. Hard; afflictive. time. blood. Dryden. Wolves had at thy gate howl'd that flera Shak. With his ftern teele, drew in ftreames the Chapman. (2.) STERN. n.. teor, Saxon. Of the fame original with steer.) 1. The hind part of the fhip where the rudder is placed.-Let a barbarous Indian, who had never seen a ship, view the feparate parts, as the prow and fiern, he would form but a very lame idea of it. Watts.-They turn their heads to fea, their sterns to land. Dryden. 2. Poft of management: direction. The king from Eltam I intend to fend, And fit at chicfest stern. 3. "The Lider part of any thing. Shak. Wrapping up her wreathed ftern around. Spenfer (3.) The STERN is the pofterior face of a fhip; or that part which is reprefented to the view of a fpectator, placed on the continuation of the keel behind. It is terminated above by the taffarel, and below by the counters; it is limited on the fides by the quarter-preces, and the intermediate fpace comprehends the galleries and windows of the different cabins. See QUARTER, Í 9; Ship, and SHIP-BUILDING. STERNA, the TraN or NODDY, a genus of birds arranged under the order of palmipedes. The marks of this genus are a ftraight, flender, pointed bill, linear noftrils, a flender and sharp tongue, very long wings, a fmall back toe, and a forked tail. There are 25 fpecies, according to Dr Latham; viz. 1. ST RNA AFRICANA; 2. ALBA; 3. AUSTRALIS; 4. BOYSH; 5. CASPIA; 6. CAYANA; 7. CINEREA; 8. FISSIPES; 9. FULICINOSA; IO. HIRUNDO; II. METOPOLEUCOS; 12. MINUTA; 13. NIGRA; 14. NILOTICA; 15. OBSCURA; 16. PANAYA; 17. PHILIPPINA; 18. PISCATA'; 19. SIMPLEX; 20. SINENSIS; 21. SPADICEA; 22. STOLIDA; 23. STRIATA; 24. SURINAMENSIS;' 25. VITTATA. Of thefe only 3 are found in Britain; viz. I. STERNA FISAIPES, the black tern, is of a mid. le fize between the HIRUNDO (N° 1.) and the MINUTA. (N° 3.) The ufual length is 16 inches; the breadth 24; the weight- 24 oz. The head, Reck, break, and belly, as far as the vent, are black; beyond is white; the male has a white fot under its chin; the back and wings are of a deep afh colour: the tail is fhort and forked; the exterior feather on each fide is white; the others afh-coloured: the legs and feet of a dufky red. Mr Ray calls this a cloren footed gull, as the webs are depreffed in the middle, and form a crefcent. Thefe birds frequent freih waters, breed on their banks, and lay 3 fmall eggs of a deep olive colour, much spotted with black. They are found during fpring and fummer in vaft numbers in the Fens of Lincolnshire, make an inceffant noife, and feed on flies as well as water infects and fmall fish. Birds of this fpecies are feen very remote from land. Kalm faw flocks of hundreds in the Atiantic Ocean, midway between England and America, and a later voyager faw one 240 leagues from the Lizard, in the fame ocean. 2. STERNA HIRUNDO, the common tern, or great fea fawallow, weighs 41 oz.; the length is 14 inches; the breadth 30; the bill and feet are of a fine crinifon; the former tipt with black, straight, fender, and sharp pointed; the crown, and hinḍ part of the head, black; the throat, and whole under fide of the body, white; the upper part, and coverts of the wings, a fine pale grey. The tail confifts of 12 feathers; the exterior edges of the three outmost are grey, the reft white; the exterior on each side is two inches longer than the others: in flying, the bird frequently clofes them together, fo as to make them appear one flender feather. Thefe birds are very common; frequent our fea coafts and banks of lakes and rivers during fummer, but are most common in the neighbourhood of the fea. They are found alfo in various parts of Europe and Alia, accord. ing to the feafon; in fummer as far as Greenland and Spitzbergen, migrating in turn to the fouth of Auftria and Greece. The female lays 3 or 4 eggs in June, of a dull olive colour, an inch and three quarters in length, marked with irregular black ipots, intermixed with fome others of a fmaller size, and lefs bright; the little end is almoft free from any markings. Thefe are laid among grafs or mofs. The young are hatched in July, and quit the neft very foon after. They are carefully fed by their parents, and fly in about fix weeks. This fpecies appears to have all actions on the water which the fwallow has on land, skimming on the surface, and feizing on every infect which comes in ita way; befides which, the moment it fries a fifh in the water, darts into that element, and feizing its prey arifes as quickly to the place from which it dipped. Thefe birds are a fo found in America; come into New England in May, and go away in autumn, and are called there the mackarel gull. At Hudfon's Bay they are known by the name of black head. They lay their eggs in fmall hollows on the fhore, fomefimes lined with a few leaves. They are often found in great numbers on the iflets in the rivers, and are thought good eating. They are bold, not fearing mankind, and in the time of incubation will attack any one, darting down fo as to touch a perfon's hat, without his giving the leaft offence. 3. STERNA MINUTA, the smaller fea fwallow, (called by Linnæus larus minuta,) weighs only 2 oz. 5 gr. is in length 8 inches; in breadth 191. The bill is yellow, tipt with black; the forehead and cheeks white; from the eyes to the bill is a black line; the top of the head and hind part black; the breaft and under fide of the body clothed with feathers fo ciofely fet together, and of fuch an exquifite rich glofs and fo fine a white, that no fatin can be compared to it: the back and wings of a pale grey: the tail fhort, lefs forked than that of the former, and white: the legs yel low: the irids dufky.-Thefe two fpecies are very delicate, feem unable to bear the inclemency of the weather on our fhores during winter, for they quit their breeding places at the approach of it, and do not return till fpring. The manners, haunts, and food of this fpecies are the fame with those of the former; but they are far lefs nume rous. * STERNAGE. n.. [from ftern.] The fteerage or ftern. Not ufed. Grapple your minds to flernage of this navy. Shakespeare. STERNATIA, a town of Naples, in Otranto: To miles ENE. of Nardo. STERNBERG, a large town of Brandenburg, which has a great trade in cattle: 20 miles NE. of Francfort, on the Oder. Lon. 15. 11. E. Lat. 52. 20. N. STERNE, Laurence, a writer of a very peculiar caft, born at Clomwell, in the S. of Ireland, 24th Nov. 1713. His father Roger Sterne was the grandfon of Sterne Abp. of York, who has been fuppofed to have been the author of the excelent book entitled The Whole Duty of Man. Laure ce inherited nothing of his grandfather's manner of writing, but rather refembled RABE. Lats, whofe wit he carried with him even into the pulpit. In 1722 he was fent to fchoo! at Hzlifax in Yorkshire, where he continued till 1732 when he was removed to Jefus College in Cambridge. How long he refided in colege, or what progress he made in literature or feience, is not known: his works display rather native genius than profound erudition. Upon quitting the univerfity he went to York, and being in orders was prefented to the living of Sutton by the intes rest of his uncle Dr Steine, a prebendary of that church. In 1741 he married, and was foon afterwards made a prebendary of York, by the interest alfo of his uncle, who was then upon very good terms with him; but "quickly quarrelled with him (he fays,) and became his bittereft enemy, because he would not be a party man, and write paragraphs in the newfpapers." By his wife's meani he got the living of Stillington, but remained near zo years at Sutton, doing duty at both places. He was then in very good health, which, however, foon after forfock him; and books, painting, fiddling, and fhooting, were, as he tells us, his amufements. In 1760, he went to London to publith his 2 first volumes of Triftram Shandy; and was that year prefented to the curacy of Coxwold. In 1762 he went to France, and two years after to Italy, for the recovery of his health; but his health never was recovered. He languished under a confumption of the lungs, without the flighteft depreffion of fpirits, till 1768, when he died. The works of Sterne are very generally read. They confift of, 1. The Life and Opinions of Triftram Shandy; 2. Sermons; 3. A fenti mental Journey; 4. Letters, published fince his death. STERN FAST, . . a rop ufed to confine the ftern of a fhip or boat to any wharf or jettyhead, &c. STERNHOLD, Thomas, an English poet, born in Hamphire, and educated at Wykeham's fchool near Winchester, about 1480. He afterwards ftu died at the university of Oxford, but did not gra duate. He obtained the place of groom of the robes to K. Henry VIII. and was left 100 marks by the will of that monarch. He enjoyed the fime office under Edward VI. and was held in fome efteem at court for his poetical abilities. With the honeft intention of difcouraging wanton fongs, he turned into English metre 51 of the Pfalms of David; the reft were executed by Hop: kins; and this version of the Pfalms by Sternho'd and Hopkins, was long fo much efteemed that it was ufed in the Englith fervice, printed along with the Book of Common Prayer, till Tate and Brady's more elegant verfion was preferred. But by the time of Q. Anne, from the alteration of the language, &c. this verfion was become so oblo lete, that dean Swift treats thefe two poets with as little respect as Virgil treated Mevius and Bavius. Speaking of a bad poet of his own time, he lays, "Sternhold himself he out-flernbolded.” But the dean fhould have made all wance for the period at which they wrote. Sternhold died at London, in 1549, with the excellent character of a zealous reformer, and a very fri& moralist. * STERNLY, adv. From fiern] In a tra manner; fevercy; truculently.No No mountaine lion tote Two lambs lo fternly. Sternly he pronounc'd The rigid interdiction. Milton. Thou look'ft more sternly. Dryden. STERN-MOST, adj. in fea language, ufually denotes that part of a fleet of fhips which is in the Lear, or fartheft a-stern, as opposed to head-most, * STERNNESS. n. f. [from stern.] 1. Severity of look. from Sternuto, Latin.] Medicine that provokes to Chapman. fueeze.-Phyficians, in perfons near death, use Sternutatories, or fuch medicines as provoke unto fneezing; when, if the faculty arife, and sternu tation enfueth, they conceive hopes of life. Brown. STERSICHORUS, a Greek lyric poet of Si. cily, born in Himera. He wrote 26 books on music, poetry, &c. which are ail loft, except a few fragments. He flourished about A. A. C. 556, and died at Catana, aged 85. His name was originaily Tyfias, but changed to Sterfichorus, on account of his improvements on music and dancing. He was a man of rank, and diftinguished as a ftatefman among the Sicilians. Men amaz'd their flernness to behold. Spenf. hold The fernness of his presence! 2. Severity or harfhnefs of manners.→→ Shak. I have fternnefs in my foul enough. Dryden. STERNOCOSTALES, commonly called the mufculi triangulares fterni, in anatomy, are five pairs of flethy planes, difpofed more or lefs obliquely on each fide of the fternum, on the infides of the cartilages of the fecond, third, fourth, fifth, and fixth true ribs. See ANATOMY, § 207, N° 5. STERNO-HYOIDAUS, in anatomy. See ANATOMY, 200, N° 2. STERNOMANTIS, in antiquity, a defignation given to the Delphian prieftefs, more ufually called PYTHIA. Sternomantis is alfo ufed for any one that had a prophefying demon within him. STERNOMASTOIDEUS, a mufcle. See ANATOMY, 199, N° 2, and the note H. *STERNON. n. f. [sivov.] The breaft-bone. -A foldier was shot in the breaft through the fernon. Wifeman. STERNOTHYROIDEUS, a mufcie. See ANATOMY, § 200. STERN POST, n.f. a long ftraight piece of timber erected on the extremity of the keel, to fuftain the rudder and terminate the fhip behind. This piece, which is expreffed by B in the pieces of the hull, (Pl. CCC. fig. 1.) ought to be weli fecured and fupported; because the ends of all the lower planks of the ship's bottom are fixed in a channel, cut on its furface; and the whole weight of the rudder is sustained by it. STERN-SHEETS, . f. that part of a boat which is contained between the ftern and the aftmoft or hindmoft feat of the rowers. It is generally furnished with benches to accommodate the paffengers. See Boat. STERNSTEIN, a town of Bavaria with an old castle; 17 miles N. of Nabburg, 20 NE. of Amberg. STERNUM. See ANATOMY, N° 144. (1.)* STERNUTATION. n.f. [fternutatio, Lat. The act of freezing.-Sternutation is a convullive fhaking of the nerves and mufeles, occafioned by an irritation of thofe in the noftrils. Quin.-Concerning fternuation, or fueezing, and the custom of faluting upon that motion, it is generally believed to derive its original from a difeafe wherein sternutation proved mortal, and fuch as fneezed died. Brown. STERT, POINT; a cape of England on the British Channel, on the N. coaft of Somerletshire; at the mouth of the Parret; to miles below bridge-water. Lon. o. 3. W. Lat. 51. 10. Ñ. STERTOR, n. f. STERTORUS, adj. See SNORING. } STERTZINGEN, a town of Germany, in the Tyrolefe, at the foot of a mountain, on the Ey fach; famous for its filver mines, and a manufac ture of fword-blades. It is 12 miles NW. of Brixen. STESICHORUS. See STERSICHORUS. STESIMBROTUS, a Greek historian, mentioned by Plutarch, who wrote an account of Ci mon's exploits. (1.) STETIN, or a duchy of Germany, in the (1.) STETTIN, eircle of Upper Saxony, and in the Hither Pomerania, belonging to the king of Pruflia. It borders upon Mecklenburg and Brandenburg; is 125 miles long, and from 17 to 25 broad. The Oder runs through it, and divides it into two parts. (2.) STETTIN, a seaport town in the above du. chy, capital of Hither Pomerania, with a caftle, It had long a famous fchool, which the wars of Germany never disturbed. The ancient dukes of Pomerania refided here; and it was taken by the elector of Brandenburg in 1676, but given to Sweden by the treaty of Nimeguen. In 1713 it fubmitted to the allies; and then the faid elector was put in poffeffion again of this important place, which is a bulwark to the Marche of Brandenburg; and the fortifications have been greatly improved. It is now a flourishing place, and car. ries on a confiderable trade. It is feated on the Oder, 72 miles N. of Francfort, and 70 N. by E. of Berlin. Lon. 14. 38. E. Lat. 53. 35. N. (3.) STETTIN, NEW, a town of Pomerania, feated among lakes, built in the 14th century; 46 miles SE. of Colberg, and 64 ENE. of Stargard. STEUART-DENHAM, Sir James, was born at Edinburgh on the roth October, O. S. 1713. His father was Sir James Steuart of Goodtrees, Bart. Solicitor-general for Scotland; and his mother was Anne daughter of Sir Hugh Dalrympie of North Berwick, Bart. prefident of the college of juftice. The first rudiments of his education he received at the granimar school of North Berwick, which at his father's death he quitted at the age of 14, with merely the reputation of being a good scholar. From North Berwick Sir James was fent to the (2.) STERNUTATIVE. university of Edinburgh, where he continued un* STERNUTATORY. n. J. [fternutatori, Fr. til 1735, when he paffed advocate before the (2.) STERNUTATION. See SNEEZING. (1.) * STERNUTATIVE. adj. [fternutatif, Fc. from Sternuto, Latin.] Having the quality of freezing. See SNEEZING. L Court |