[stahyn] 
| 1. | a mug, usually earthenware, esp. for beer. |
| 2. | the quantity of beer or other liquid contained in a stein. |
[stahyn for 1, 3; shtahyn for 2] | 1. | Gertrude, 1874–1946, U.S. author in France. |
| 2. | Hein⋅rich Frie⋅drich Karl [hahyn-rikh free-drikh kahrl] , Baron vom und zum [fawm oo nt tsoom] , 1757–1831, German statesman. |
| 3. | William Howard, 1911–80, U.S. biochemist: Nobel prize for chemistry 1972. |
| stein (stīn) n. A mug, especially one for beer, usually holding about a pint. [German, probably short for Steinkrug, stone jug : Stein, stone (from Middle High German, from Old High German; see stāi- in Indo-European roots) + Krug, jug.] |
| Stein (stīn) American writer of experimental novels, poetry, essays, operas, and plays. In Paris during the 1920s she was a central member of a group of American expatriates that included Ernest Hemingway. Her works include Three Lives (1908), Tender Buttons (1914), and The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas (1933). |
Stein (stīn), William Howard. 1911-1980.
American biochemist. He shared a 1972 Nobel Prize for pioneering studies of ribonuclease.