Steer

ster, r. t. [steered (sterd), steering.] To control the career of, direct, guide, govern, — applied esp. to a ve el in the water. — v. i. To direct and govern a ship or other ve el in its course: to be directed and governed; to conduct one's self. — Steer'age. -ej, n. Act or practice of directing and governing in a course. {Naut.) The manner in which a ship is affected by the helm; an apartment in the space between decks; p, air pump; forward of the great cabin; an apartment in a shifting-valve, ship for an inferior cla of pa engers. That in the conto starting the by which a course is directed. — Steers'man, for supplysterz^man, of a ship. n. One who steers; the helmsman; t, cold water the condenser Steeve, stev, v. i. (Shipbuilding.') To make an angle with the horizon, or with the line of a ve el's keel, — said of the bowsprit. fare; end, eve, term; In, Ice; Odd, tone, dr; STEGANOGrRAPHY 413 Steganography, steg-a-nogra-f Y, n. The art of writing in ciphers, or characters not intelligible except to the persons who correspond with each other. 425