Steady
(Stead"y), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Steadied ; p. pr. & vb. n. Steadying.] To make steady; to hold
or keep from shaking, reeling, or falling; to make or keep firm; to support; to make constant, regular, or
resolute.
Steady
(Stead"y), v. i. To become steady; to regain a steady position or state; to move steadily.
Without a breeze, without a tide,
She steadies with upright keel.
Coleridge. Steak
(Steak) n. [OE. steike, Icel. steik, akin to Icel. steikja to roast, stikna to be roasted or scorched,
and E. stick, the steak being broiled on a spit. See Stick, v. t.] A slice of beef, broiled, or cut for
broiling; — also extended to the meat of other large animals; as, venison steak; bear steak; pork steak; turtle
steak.
Steal
(Steal) n. [See Stale a handle.] A handle; a stale, or stele. [Archaic or Prov. Eng.]
And in his hand a huge poleax did bear.
Whose steale was iron-studded but not long.
Spenser. Steal
(Steal) v. t. [imp. Stole ; p. p. Stolen ; p. pr. & vb. n. Stealing.] [OE. stelen, AS. stelan; akin
to OFries. stela, D. stelen, OHG. stelan, G. stehlen, Icel. stela, SW. stjäla, Dan. stiæle, Goth. stilan.]
1. To take and carry away, feloniously; to take without right or leave, and with intent to keep wrongfully; as,
to steal the personal goods of another.
Maugre thy heed, thou must for indigence
Or steal, or borrow, thy dispense.
Chaucer.
The man who stole a goose and gave away the giblets in lms.
G. Eliot. 2. To withdraw or convey clandestinely (reflexive); hence, to creep furtively, or to insinuate.
They could insinuate and steal themselves under the same by their humble carriage and submission.
Spenser.
He will steal himself into a man's favor.
Shak. 3. To gain by insinuating arts or covert means.
So Absalom stole the hearts of the men of Israel.
2 Sam. xv. 6. 4. To get into one's power gradually and by imperceptible degrees; to take possession of by a gradual
and imperceptible appropriation; — with away.
Variety of objects has a tendency to steal away the mind from its steady pursuit of any subject.
I. Watts. 5. To accomplish in a concealed or unobserved manner; to try to carry out secretly; as, to steal a look.
Always, when thou changest thine opinion or course, profess it plainly, . . . and do not think to steal it.
Bacon. To steal a march, to march in a covert way; to gain an advantage unobserved; — formerly followed by
of, but now by on or upon, and sometimes by over; as, to steal a march upon one's political rivals.
She yesterday wanted to steal a march of poor Liddy.
Smollett.
Fifty thousand men can not easily steal a march over the sea.
Walpole. Syn. — To filch; pilfer; purloin; thieve.
