Definition of Stear

1. a young ox [v -ED, -ING, -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Stear

steams
steamship
steamship company
steamship line
steamships
stean
steane
steaned
steanes
steaning
steanings
steans
steapsin
steapsins
stear (current term)
stearage
stearages
stearate
stearated
stearates
steard
steare
steared
steares
stearic
stearic acid
stearidonic
stearidonic acid
stearin

Literary usage of Stear

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Early Records of the Town of Providence by Providence (R.I.). Record Commissioners (1895)
"... in damage Fes- sant a stray stear of one year & vantage old of a Red ... Two stray Cattle viz one being a stear of three year and vantage old of a Red ..."

2. Reports of Cases in Chancery, Argued and Determined in the Rolls Court by Baron Henry Bickersteth Langdale, Chaloner William Chute, John Romilly Romilly, Charles Beavan (1864)
"stear. "DEFORE the Plaintiff was in default, according to •^^ the General Orders (a), the Defendant gave notice of motion to dismiss for want of prosecution ..."

3. Judicial and Testamentary Business of the Provincial Court by Maryland, Maryland Provincial Court, Provincial Court (1891)
"... the Deponents best remembrance was Cropt on the left Eare, the other Eare hole only a Nike or two Slitt in, which stear the Depon' meeting in his penn ..."

4. English Reports in Law and Equity: Containing Reports of Cases in the House by Edmund Hatch Bennett, Chauncey Smith, Great Britain Parliament. House of Lords, Great Britain Courts (1853)
"As the case stood at the time the order was made, I am at some loss to discover such an interest in Mr. stear as could make the order void because he joined ..."

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