stear

English

Verb

stear (third-person singular simple present stears, present participle stearing, simple past and past participle steared)

1. Obsolete form of steer.
   • 1667, John Milton, “(please specify the book number)”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […], OCLC 228722708; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, OCLC 230729554:

     And now thir way to Earth they had descri'd, / To Paradise first tending, when behold / Satan in likeness of an Angel bright / Betwixt the Centaure and the Scorpion stearing / His Zenith, while the Sun in Aries rose […]

Related terms

• stearsman

Anagrams

• 'earts, -aster, Aters, Sater, Satre, TASer, Taser, Tesar, arets, arste, aster, earst, rates, reast, resat, setar, stare, tares, tarse, taser, tears, teras