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Webster's English Dictionary

stern

n. [AS. stearn a kind of bird. See Starling.] (Zol.) The black tern. ()

a. [OE. sterne, sturne, AS. styrne; cf. D. stuurish stern, Sw. stursk refractory. 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. ()

The sterne wind so loud gan to rout. (Chaucer.)

I would outstare the sternest eyes that look. (Shak.)

When that the poor have cried, Csar hath wept; Ambition should be made of sterner stuff. (Shak.)

Stern as tutors, and as uncles hard. (Dryden.)

These barren rocks, your stern inheritance. (Wordsworth.)

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n. [Icel. stjrn a steering, or a doubtful AS. stern. 166. See Steer, v. t.]1. The helm or tiller of a vessel or boat; also, the rudder. (Chaucer.)

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. ()

3. Fig.: The post of management or direction. ()

And sit chiefest stern of public weal. (Shak.)

4. The hinder part of anything. (Spenser.)

5. The tail of an animal; -- now used only of the tail of a dog. ()

By the stern. (Naut.) See By the head, under By. ()

a. Being in the stern, or being astern; as, the stern davits. ()

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. ()