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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Stern \Stern\, n. [AS. stearn a kind of bird. See {Starling}.] (Zool.) The black tern. [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Stern \Stern\, a. [Compar. {Sterner}; superl. {Sternest}.] [OE. sterne, sturne, AS. styrne; cf. D. stuurish stern, Sw. stursk refractory. [root]166.] Having a certain hardness or severity of nature, manner, or aspect; hard; severe; rigid; rigorous; austere; fixed; unchanging; unrelenting; hence, serious; resolute; harsh; as, a sternresolve; a stern necessity; a stern heart; a stern gaze; a stern decree. [1913 Webster] The sterne wind so loud gan to rout. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster] I would outstare the sternest eyes that look. --Shak. [1913 Webster] When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept; Ambition should be made of sterner stuff. --Shak. [1913 Webster] Stern as tutors, and as uncles hard. --Dryden. [1913 Webster] These barren rocks, your stern inheritance. --Wordsworth. [1913 Webster] Syn: Gloomy; sullen; forbidding; strict; unkind; hard-hearted; unfeeling; cruel; pitiless. [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Stern \Stern\, n. [Icel. stj[=o]rn a steering, or a doubtful AS. ste['o]rn. [root]166. See {Steer}, v. t.] 1. The helm or tiller of a vessel or boat; also, the rudder. [Obs.] --Chaucer. [1913 Webster] 2. (Naut.) The after or rear end of a ship or other vessel, or of a boat; the part opposite to the stem, or prow. [1913 Webster] 3. Fig.: The post of management or direction. [1913 Webster] And sit chiefest stern of public weal. --Shak. [1913 Webster] 4. The hinder part of anything. --Spenser. [1913 Webster] 5. The tail of an animal; -- now used only of the tail of a dog. [1913 Webster] {By the stern}. (Naut.) See {By the head}, under {By}. [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Stern \Stern\, a. Being in the stern, or being astern; as, the stern davits. [1913 Webster] {Stern board} (Naut.), a going or falling astern; a loss of way in making a tack; as, to make a stern board. See {Board}, n., 8 (b) . {Stern chase}. (Naut.) (a) See under {Chase}, n. (b) A stern chaser. {Stern chaser} (Naut.), a cannon placed in a ship's stern, pointing backward, and intended to annoy a ship that is in pursuit. {Stern fast} (Naut.), a rope used to confine the stern of a ship or other vessel, as to a wharf or buoy. {Stern frame} (Naut.), the framework of timber forms the stern of a ship. {Stern knee}. See {Sternson}. {Stern port} (Naut.), a port, or opening, in the stern of a ship. {Stern sheets} (Naut.), that part of an open boat which is between the stern and the aftmost seat of the rowers, -- usually furnished with seats for passengers. {Stern wheel}, a paddle wheel attached to the stern of the steamboat which it propels. [1913 Webster] From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: stern adj 1: of a stern or strict bearing or demeanor; forbidding in aspect; "an austere expression"; "a stern face" [syn: {austere}, {stern}] 2: not to be placated or appeased or moved by entreaty; "grim determination"; "grim necessity"; "Russia's final hour, it seemed, approached with inexorable certainty"; "relentless persecution"; "the stern demands of parenthood" [syn: {grim}, {inexorable}, {relentless}, {stern}, {unappeasable}, {unforgiving}, {unrelenting}] 3: severe and unremitting in making demands; "an exacting instructor"; "a stern disciplinarian"; "strict standards" [syn: {stern}, {strict}, {exacting}] 4: severely simple; "a stark interior" [syn: {austere}, {severe}, {stark}, {stern}] n 1: the rear part of a ship [syn: {stern}, {after part}, {quarter}, {poop}, {tail}] 2: United States concert violinist (born in Russia in 1920) [syn: {Stern}, {Isaac Stern}] 3: the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on; "he deserves a good kick in the butt"; "are you going to sit on your fanny and do nothing?" [syn: {buttocks}, {nates}, {arse}, {butt}, {backside}, {bum}, {buns}, {can}, {fundament}, {hindquarters}, {hind end}, {keister}, {posterior}, {prat}, {rear}, {rear end}, {rump}, {stern}, {seat}, {tail}, {tail end}, {tooshie}, {tush}, {bottom}, {behind}, {derriere}, {fanny}, {ass}] From German-English FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.3.3 [fd-deu-eng]: Stern... /ʃtɛrn/ astronomical From German-English FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.3.3 [fd-deu-eng]: Stern /ʃtɛrn/ asterisk; diamond; star