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An engine moved by steam.
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A boat or vessel propelled by steam power; -- generally used of river or coasting craft, as distinguished from ocean steamers.
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The steamer duck.
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The ketone of stearic acid, obtained as a white crystalline substance, (C17H35)2.CO, by the distillation of calcium stearate.
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The hypothetical radical characteristic of stearic acid.
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One of the constituents of animal fats and also of some vegetable fats, as the butter of cacao. It is especially characterized by its solidity, so that when present in considerable quantity it materially increases the hardness, or raises the melting point, of the fat, as in mutton tallow. Chemically, it is a compound of glyceryl with three molecules of stearic acid, and hence is technically called tristearin, or glyceryl tristearate.
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The occupation or business of running a steamboat, or of transporting merchandise, passengers, etc., by steamboats.
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Consisting of, or resembling, steam; full of steam; vaporous; misty.
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A salt of stearic acid; as, ordinary soap consists largely of sodium or potassium stearates.
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Of, pertaining to, or designating, an acid of the acetylene series, isologous with stearis acid, and obtained, as a white crystalline substance, from oleic acid.
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Pertaining to, or of the nature of, steatite; containing or resembling steatite.
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To expose to the action of steam; to apply steam to for softening, dressing, or preparing; as, to steam wood; to steamcloth; to steam food, etc.
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A vessel in which articles are subjected to the action of steam, as in washing, in cookery, and in various processes of manufacture.
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The quality or condition of being steamy; vaporousness; mistness.
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A ship or seagoing vessel propelled by the power of steam; a steamer.
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Pertaining to, or obtained from, stearin or tallow; resembling tallow.
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A steam fire engine. See under Steam.
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To generate steam; as, the boiler steams well.
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A vessel propelled by steam; a steamship or steamboat.
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Of the nature of steatoma.
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