Definition of stem

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Stem (n.) Fig.: An advanced or leading position; the lookout.

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Mi :: Mi (n.) A syllable applied to the third tone of the scale of C, i. e., to E, in European solmization, but to the third tone of any scale in the American system..
Receiver :: Receiver (n.) That portion of a telephonic apparatus, or similar system, at which the message is received and made audible; -- opposed to transmitter..
Cholagogue :: Cholagogue (a.) Promoting the discharge of bile from the system.
Grain :: Grain (n.) A branch of a tree; a stalk or stem of a plant.
Distemper :: Distemper (v. t.) To mix (colors) in the way of distemper; as, to distemper colors with size..
Isostemony :: Isostemony (n.) The quality or state of being isostemonous.
Cult :: Cult (n .) A system of religious belief and worship.
Culm :: Culm (n.) The stalk or stem of grain and grasses (including the bamboo), jointed and usually hollow..
Head :: Head (n.) The anterior or superior part of an animal, containing the brain, or chief ganglia of the nervous system, the mouth, and in the higher animals, the chief sensory organs; poll; cephalon..
Retrofracted :: Retrofracted (a.) Refracted; as, a retrofract stem..
Genesee Epoch :: Genesee epoch () The closing subdivision of the Hamilton period in the American Devonian system; -- so called because the formations of this period crop out in Genesee, New York..
Hookah :: Hookah (n.) A pipe with a long, flexible stem, so arranged that the smoke is cooled by being made to pass through water..
Distemper :: Distemper (v. t.) A morbid state of the animal system; indisposition; malady; disorder; -- at present chiefly applied to diseases of brutes; as, a distemper in dogs; the horse distemper; the horn distemper in cattle..
Scyphus :: Scyphus (n.) A cup-shaped stem or podetium in lichens. Also called scypha. See Illust. of Cladonia pyxidata, under Lichen..
Stem-winding :: Stem-winder (n.) A stem-winding watch.
Distemper :: Distemper (v. t.) To derange the functions of, whether bodily, mental, or spiritual; to disorder; to disease..
Radix :: Radix (n.) A number or quantity which is arbitrarily made the fundamental number of any system; a base. Thus, 10 is the radix, or base, of the common system of logarithms, and also of the decimal system of numeration..
Technology :: Technology (n.) Industrial science; the science of systematic knowledge of the industrial arts, especially of the more important manufactures, as spinning, weaving, metallurgy, etc..
Institution :: Institution (n.) That which institutes or instructs; a textbook; a system of elements or rules; an institute.
Stock :: Stock (n.) The stem or branch in which a graft is inserted.
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