Definition of stem

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

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Dictionary :: Dictionary (n.) Hence, a book containing the words belonging to any system or province of knowledge, arranged alphabetically; as, a dictionary of medicine or of botany; a biographical dictionary..
Supranaturalism :: Supramundane (a.) Being or situated above the world or above our system; celestial.
System :: System (n.) Regular method or order; formal arrangement; plan; as, to have a system in one's business..
Terete :: Terete (a.) Cylindrical and slightly tapering; columnar, as some stems of plants..
Idealism :: Idealism (n.) The system or theory that denies the existence of material bodies, and teaches that we have no rational grounds to believe in the reality of anything but ideas and their relations..
Diastem :: Diastem (n.) Intervening space; interval.
Observatory :: Observatory (n.) A building fitted with instruments for making systematic observations of any particular class or series of natural phenomena.
Grass :: Grass (n.) An endogenous plant having simple leaves, a stem generally jointed and tubular, the husks or glumes in pairs, and the seed single..
Ampere :: Ampere (n.) The unit of electric current; -- defined by the International Electrical Congress in 1893 and by U. S. Statute as, one tenth of the unit of current of the C. G. S. system of electro-magnetic units, or the practical equivalent of the unvarying current which, when passed through a standard solution of nitrate of silver in water, deposits silver at the rate of 0.001118 grams per second. Called also the international ampere..
Shaft :: Shaft (n.) The slender, smooth stem of an arrow; hence, an arrow..
Pedicel :: Pedicel (n.) A slender stem by which certain of the lower animals or their eggs are attached. See Illust. of Aphis lion.
Brownism :: Brownism (n.) The doctrines of the Brunonian system of medicine. See Brunonian.
Kemps :: Kemps (n. pl.) The long flower stems of the ribwort plantain (Plantago Lanceolata).
Christian :: Christian (n.) One born in a Christian country or of Christian parents, and who has not definitely becomes an adherent of an opposing system..
Straw :: 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..
Metre :: Metre (n.) A measure of length, equal to 39.37 English inches, the standard of linear measure in the metric system of weights and measures. It was intended to be, and is very nearly, the ten millionth part of the distance from the equator to the north pole, as ascertained by actual measurement of an arc of a meridian. See Metric system, under Metric..
Machinery :: Machinery (n.) The means and appliances by which anything is kept in action or a desired result is obtained; a complex system of parts adapted to a purpose.
Frutex :: Frutex (n.) A plant having a woody, durable stem, but less than a tree; a shrub..
Distempered :: Distempered (imp. & p. p.) of Distempe.
Epidermis :: Epidermis (v. t.) The outermost layer of the cells, which covers both surfaces of leaves, and also the surface of stems, when they are first formed. As stems grow old this layer is lost, and never replaced..
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