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- Stem - v. i. - Alt. of Steem
- Stem - n. - Alt. of Steem
- Stem - n. - The principal body of a tree, shrub, or plant, of any kind; the main stock; the part which supports the branches or the head or top.
- Stem - n. - A little branch which connects a fruit, flower, or leaf with a main branch; a peduncle, pedicel, or petiole; as, the stem of an apple or a cherry.
- Stem - n. - The stock of a family; a race or generation of progenitors.
- Stem - n. - A branch of a family.
- Stem - n. - A curved piece of timber to which the two sides of a ship are united at the fore end. The lower end of it is scarfed to the keel, and the bowsprit rests upon its upper end. Hence, the forward part of a vessel; the bow.
- Stem - n. - Fig.: An advanced or leading position; the lookout.
- Stem - n. - Anything resembling a stem or stalk; as, the stem of a tobacco pipe; the stem of a watch case, or that part to which the ring, by which it is suspended, is attached.
- Stem - n. - That part of a plant which bears leaves, or rudiments of leaves, whether rising above ground or wholly subterranean.
- Stem - n. - The entire central axis of a feather.
- Stem - n. - The basal portion of the body of one of the Pennatulacea, or of a gorgonian.
- Stem - n. - The short perpendicular line added to the body of a note; the tail of a crotchet, quaver, semiquaver, etc.
- Stem - n. - The part of an inflected word which remains unchanged (except by euphonic variations) throughout a given inflection; theme; base.
- Stem - v. t. - To remove the stem or stems from; as, to stem cherries; to remove the stem and its appendages (ribs and veins) from; as, to stem tobacco leaves.
- Stem - v. t. - To ram, as clay, into a blasting hole.
- Stem - v. t. - To oppose or cut with, or as with, the stem of a vessel; to resist, or make progress against; to stop or check the flow of, as a current.
- Stem - v. i. - To move forward against an obstacle, as a vessel against a current.
- Stem-clasping - a. - Embracing the stem with its base; amplexicaul; as a leaf or petiole.
- Stem-winder - n. - A stem-winding watch.
- Stem-winding - a. - Wound by mechanism connected with the stem; as, a stem-winding watch.
- Stemless - a. - Having no stem; (Bot.) acaulescent.
- Stemlet - n. - A small or young stem.
- Stemma - n. - One of the ocelli of an insect. See Ocellus.
- Stemma - n. - One of the facets of a compound eye of any arthropod.
- Stub - n. - The stump of a tree; that part of a tree or plant which remains fixed in the earth when the stem is cut down; -- applied especially to the stump of a small tree, or shrub.
- Culm - n. - The stalk or stem of grain and grasses (including the bamboo), jointed and usually hollow.
- Papyrus - n. - A tall rushlike plant (Cyperus Papyrus) of the Sedge family, formerly growing in Egypt, and now found in Abyssinia, Syria, Sicily, etc. The stem is triangular and about an inch thick.
- Hood - n. - The endmost plank of a strake which reaches the stem or stern.
- Holmos - n. - A closed vessel of nearly spherical form on a high stem or pedestal.
- Digitated - a. - Having several leaflets arranged, like the fingers of the hand, at the extremity of a stem or petiole. Also, in general, characterized by digitation.
- Stealer - n. - The endmost plank of a strake which stops short of the stem or stern.
- Plerome - n. - The central column of parenchyma in a growing stem or root.
- Voluble - a. - Having the power or habit of turning or twining; as, the voluble stem of hop plants.
- Semiligneous - a. - Half or partially ligneous, as a stem partly woody and partly herbaceous.
- Straw - n. - A stalk or stem of certain species of grain, pulse, etc., especially of wheat, rye, oats, barley, more rarely of buckwheat, beans, and pease.
- Gammon - v. t. - To fasten (a bowsprit) to the stem of a vessel by lashings of rope or chain, or by a band of iron.
- Centinody - n. - A weed with a stem of many joints (Illecebrum verticillatum); also, the Polygonum aviculare or knotgrass.
- Stem - v. t. - To oppose or cut with, or as with, the stem of a vessel; to resist, or make progress against; to stop or check the flow of, as a current.
- Abbreviation - n. - One dash, or more, through the stem of a note, dividing it respectively into quavers, semiquavers, or demi-semiquavers.
- Phyton - n. - One of the parts which by their repetition make up a flowering plant, each being a single joint of a stem with its leaf or leaves; a phytomer.
- Differentiation - n. - The gradual formation or production of organs or parts by a process of evolution or development, as when the seed develops the root and the stem, the initial stem develops the leaf, branches, and flower buds; or in animal life, when the germ evolves the digestive and other organs and members, or when the animals as they advance in organization acquire special organs for specific purposes.
- Gammoning - n. - The lashing or iron band by which the bowsprit of a vessel is secured to the stem to opposite the lifting action of the forestays.
- Sclerobase - n. - The calcareous or hornlike coral forming the central stem or axis of most compound alcyonarians; -- called also foot secretion. See Illust. under Gorgoniacea, and Coenenchyma.
- Lenticel - n. - One of the small, oval, rounded spots upon the stem or branch of a plant, from which the underlying tissues may protrude or roots may issue, either in the air, or more commonly when the stem or branch is covered with water or earth.
- Shaft - n. - The slender, smooth stem of an arrow; hence, an arrow.
- Overhang - n. - The portion of the bow or stem of a vessel that projects over the water beyond the water line.
- Hyporhachis - n. - The stem of an aftershaft or hypoptilum.
- Leaf - n. - A colored, usually green, expansion growing from the side of a stem or rootstock, in which the sap for the use of the plant is elaborated under the influence of light; one of the parts of a plant which collectively constitute its foliage.
- Sola - n. - A leguminous plant (Aeschynomene aspera) growing in moist places in Southern India and the East Indies. Its pithlike stem is used for making hats, swimming-jackets, etc.
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- H1682 דְּבוֹרָה - 1682 דְּבוֹרָה - דְּבוֹרָה - - dᵉbôwrâh - deb-o-raw' - or (shortened) דְּבֹרָה; from דָבַר (in the sense of orderly motion); the bee (from its systematic instincts); bee. - Noun Feminine - heb
- H1503 גֶּזַע - 1503 גֶּזַע - גֶּזַע - - gezaʻ - geh'-zah - from an unused root meaning to cut down (trees); the trunk or stump of atree (as felled or as planted); stem, stock. - Noun Masculine - heb
- G2563 κάλαμος - 2563 κάλαμος - ΚΆΛΑΜΟΣ - - kálamos - kal'-am-os - of uncertain affinity; a reed (the plant or its stem, or that of a similar plant); by implication, a pen:--pen, reed. - Noun Masculine - greek
- G3004 λέγω - 3004 λέγω - ΛΈΓΩ - - légō - leg'-o - a primary verb; properly, to "lay" forth, i.e. (figuratively) relate (in words (usually of systematic or set discourse; whereas ἔπω and φημί generally refer to an individual expression or speech respectively; while ῥέω is properly to break silence merely, and λαλέω means an extended or random harangue)); by implication, to mean:--ask, bid, boast, call, describe, give out, name, put forth, say(-ing, on), shew, speak, tell, utter. - Verb - greek
- H6466 פָּעַל - 6466 פָּעַל - פָּעַל - - pâʻal - paw-al' - a primitive root; to do or make (systematically and habitually), especially to practise; commit, (evil-) do(-er), make(-r), ordain, work(-er). - Verb - heb
- G5340 φειδομένως - 5340 φειδομένως - ΦΕΙΔΟΜΈΝΩΣ - - pheidoménōs - fi-dom-en'-oce - adverb from participle of φείδομαι; abstemiously, i.e. stingily:--sparingly. - Adverb - greek
- G4102 πίστις - 4102 πίστις - ΠΊΣΤΙΣ - - pístis - pis'-tis - from πείθω; persuasion, i.e. credence; moral conviction (of religious truth, or the truthfulness of God or a religious teacher), especially reliance upon Christ for salvation; abstractly, constancy in such profession; by extension, the system of religious (Gospel) truth itself:--assurance, belief, believe, faith, fidelity. - Noun Feminine - greek
- H7070 קָנֶה - 7070 קָנֶה - קָנֶה - - qâneh - kaw-neh' - from קָנָה; a reed (as erect); by resemblance a rod (especially for measuring), shaft, tube, stem, the radius (of the arm), beam (of a steelyard); balance, bone, branch, calamus, cane, reed, [idiom] spearman, stalk. - Noun Masculine - heb
- H7574 רֶתֶם - 7574 רֶתֶם - רֶתֶם - - rethem - reh'-them - or רֹתֶם; from רָתַם; the Spanish broom (from its pole-like stems); juniper (tree). - Noun Masculine - heb
- G4753 στράτευμα - 4753 στράτευμα - ΣΤΡΆΤΕΥΜΑ - - stráteuma - strat'-yoo-mah - from στρατεύομαι; an armament, i.e. (by implication) a body of troops (more or less extensive or systematic):--army, soldier, man of war. - Noun Neuter - greek
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