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Bavarian Franconia; 5 miles east-north-east of Schweinfurt, are sold by the aam, which contains 4 ankers, 8 stekans 
and 30 north-east of Wurzburg. Population 1200. 21 viertels, 64 stoops, 128 mingels, 256 pints, or 1024 
STEINACH, or Stadt-Steinach, a small town of musies; which holds 8966 Dutch, 7705 French, or 9351 
Bavarian Franconia; 35 miles north-east of Bamberg, and 
17 north-north-west of Bayreuth. Population 1100. 
STEINAU, a small town of Prussian Silesia, near the 
Oder. It is fortified, and has often been besieged in the 
wars of Germany. Population 2000; 23 miles south-east 
of Gros Glogau, and 34 north-west of Breslau, 
STEIN AU AN DER STRASS, a small town of the 
west of Germany, in Hesse-Cassel, county of Hanau. Po¬ 
pulation 1100; 16 miles south-west of Fulda, and 25 east- 
north-east of Hanau. 
STEINBACH, a small town of the west of Germany, in 
Hesse-Cassel, lordship of Smalcalden, with 2100 inhabitants, 
employed chiefly in manufacturing hardware; 5 miles east 
of Smalcalden. 
STEINBACH, a small town of the west of Germany, in 
the principality of Saxe-Meinungen, bailiwic of Altenstein. 
Population 1600. 
STEINBACH, a small town of the west of Germany; 9 
miles south-west of the town of Baden. Population 1700. 
STEINBACH, a small but neat town of the west of Ger¬ 
many, in Wirtemberg, on the Kocher. 
STEINBACH, a large village of Upper Austria, on the 
river Steyer; 6 miles south of the town of Steyer. 
STEINBACH, a village of Prussian Westphalia, in the 
duchy of Berg, near Muhlheim. In the neighbourhood are 
mines of iron, lead, and copper. 
STEINBERG, a hill of Silesia, in the county of Glatz, 
with a fort which defends a pass into Bohemia. 
STEINBUHEL, a large village of Austrian Illyria, in 
Carinthia; 1 mile south of Ratmannsdorf, with extensive 
iron-works. 
STEINE, Old, Middle, and Lower, three large vil¬ 
lages of Prussian Silesia, in the county of Glatz, near Muns- 
chelburg. 
STEINFELD, Great and Little, two villages of 
France, in Alsace. They contain together about 1100 in¬ 
habitants. 
STEINFELD, Upper, a small town of the west of 
Germany, in Wirtemberg, near Marbach, with 1200 in¬ 
habitants. 
STEINFURT, or Burg-Steinfurt, a small town of 
Prussian Westphalia, on the river Aa, and the chief place 
of a lordship belonging to the counts of Bentheim, but 
surrounded by the principality of Munster. Population 
1300; 17 miles north-west of Munster, and 13 south-east 
of Bentheim. 
STEINFURT, a small town of Prussian Westphalia; 11 
miles south-south-east of Munster. Population 850. 
STEINHAGEN, a small town of Prussian Westphalia, 
in the government of Minden, with 1500 inhabitants, 
employed chiefly in linen weaving-; 5 miles west of Biele¬ 
feld, and 25 north-west of Paderborn. 
STEINHEIM, a small town of Prussian Westphalia, in 
the government of Minden, on the Emmer; 13 miles north- 
north-east of Padeiborn. Population 1700. 
STEINHEIM, a small town of the west of Germany, in 
Hesse-Darmstadt, on the Maine; 11 miles east of Frankfort. 
Population 900. 
STEINHEIM ON THE MUR, a small town of the west 
of Germany, in Wirtemburg; 14 miles north-by-east of 
Stutgard. Population 1300. 
STEINHUDE, a small lake in the interior of Germany, 
in the county of Schauenburg-Lippe. It is about five miles 
in length, three in breadth, and on an average sixteen feet 
in depth. It contains an island, with a small fort called 
Wilhelm-stein. 
STEINHUDE, a small town on the above lake; 16 miles 
west-north-west of Hanover, with 900 inhabitants. 
STE1NHUN, or Stone-hen, in Ornithology, a name 
given by the Germans to a bird of the Lagopus kind. 
STEKAN, in Commerce, a liquid measure in Holland. 
Rhine and Mosel wine, and also spirits distilled from corn, 
English cubic inches, or about 40|- English wine gallons. 
STEINKIRCHEN, a village of Hanover, in the duchy 
of Bremen ; 10 miles south-east of Stade. 
STEINWEILER, a small town of the Bavarian circle of 
the Rhine, district of Landau. Population 1200. 
STEINWIESEN, a large village of Bavaria, in the circle 
of the Maine, or principality of Bamberg. • 
STEKENE, a small town of the Netherlands, in East 
Flanders, situated on the canal leading from Ghent to Hulst; 
17 miles north-east of Ghent. Population 3700. 
STEKENITZ, or Stekf.nisse. See Stockenitz. 
STE'LE, s. [pcela, Sax.; stele, Dutch.] A stalk; a 
handle. 
STELE [2-njXij, Gr.], in Antiquity, a kind of punish¬ 
ment, being a pillar whereon a criminal was exposed, and 
on which was engraven an account of his crime. 
STELECHEIA, a word used by some authors to express 
the vena portae. 
STELECHITES, in the Materia Medica, a name given 
by Dioscorides, and some other of the Greek writers, to a 
peculiarly fine kind of storax. 
STELENCHIS, a strigil, or an instrument used in the 
baths to rub off the sweat from the skin. 
STELIS, [o-reXi?, an ancient Greek name for a sort of 
Misseltoe, parasitical, like this genus, upon trees], in Botany, 
a genus formed of some species of Epidendron; which 
see. 
STELLA (Jacques), an eminent French painter, was 
born at Lyons in 1596. In his twentieth year he travelled 
to Italy, intending to proceed to Rome to finish his studies ; 
but was stayed in his progress at Florence, by Cosmo de 
Medici, to assist in the decorations preparing for the marriage 
of his son Ferdinand. The grand duke retained him in 
his service, and gave him a pension, with apartments; and 
he remained there seven years. At the end of that time he 
continued his intended journey, and at Rome he studied 
with unremitted attention the works of Raphael, in company 
with Nicolo Poussin, with whom he lived in intimacy and 
friendship. 
Cardinal Richelieu recommended him to Louis XIV., and 
procured him a pension of a thousand livres, together with 
the employment of state painter. 
Stella had considerable genius, but wanted a pure taste. 
His invention was ready, and his execution agreeable ; the 
attitudes of his figures, however, exhibit the effect of study and 
the lamp ; and nature is less frequently the guide of their 
expressions than art. His colouring is completely artificial; 
and yet with these defects, there is an agreeable air in his 
pictures; the parts are well balanced, and life and activity 
reign in them. He was most successful in his smaller pro¬ 
ductions. He died at Paris in 1647, aged 51. 
STELLA, the name of a bandage in old Surgery, re¬ 
sembling a star, by the numerous crossings which it makes. 
It was employed after arteriotomy in the temple. 
STELLA, a township of England, in Durham; 5| miles 
west-by-north of Gateshead. 
STELLA, a small river of Austrian Italy, in Friuli, which 
falls into the gulf of Venice, between the mouth of the 
Tagliamento and the town of Maranno. 
STE'LLAR, adj. Astral; relating to the stars. 
In part shed down 
Their stellar virtue, on all kinds that grow 
On earth ; made hereby apter to receive 
Perfection from the sun’s more potent ray. Milton. 
Salt dissolved, upon fixation, returns to its affected cubes, 
and regular figures of minerals, as the hexagonal of chrystal, 
and stellar figure of the stone asteria. Glanville. 
STELLARIA [from the star-like form of the flowers], 
in Botany, a genus of the class decandria, order trigynia, 
natural order of caryophyllei, caryophyllese (Suss.) —Gene¬ 
ric Character. Calyx: perianth five-leaved; leaflets ovate- 
lanceolate, 
