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noun. The main ascending part of a plant; a stalk or trunk.

noun. A slender stalk supporting or connecting another plant part, such as a leaf or flower.

noun. A banana stalk bearing several bunches of bananas.

noun. A connecting or supporting part, especially.

noun. The tube of a tobacco pipe.

noun. The slender upright support of a wineglass or goblet.

noun. The small projecting shaft with an expanded crown by which a watch is wound.

noun. The rounded rod in the center of certain locks about which the key fits and is turned.

noun. The shaft of a feather or hair.

noun. The upright stroke of a typeface or letter.

noun. The vertical line extending from the head of a note.

noun. The main line of descent of a family.

noun. The main part of a word to which affixes are added.

noun. The curved upright beam at the fore of a vessel into which the hull timbers are scarfed to form the prow.

noun. The tubular glass structure mounting the filament or electrodes in an incandescent bulb or vacuum tube.

intransitive verb. To have or take origin or descent.

intransitive verb. To remove the stem of.

intransitive verb. To provide with a stem.

intransitive verb. To make headway against (a tide or current, for example).

idiom. (from stem to stern) From one end to another.

intransitive verb. To stop or stanch (a flow).

intransitive verb. To restrain or stop.

intransitive verb. To plug or tamp (a blast hole, for example).

intransitive verb. To turn (a ski, usually the uphill ski) by moving the heel outward.

intransitive verb. To stem a ski or both skis, as in making a turn.

To remove the stem of; separate from the stem: as, to stem tobacco.

To stop; check; dam up, as a stream.

To tamp; make tight, as a joint, with a lute or cement.

To dash against with the stem (of a vessel).

To keep (a vessel) on its course; steer.

To make headway against by sailing or swimming, as a tide or current; hence, in general, to make headway against (opposition of any kind).

To make headway (as a ship); especially, to make progress in opposition to some obstruction, as a current of water or the wind.

To head; advance head on.

An old spelling of steam.

noun. A curved piece of timber or metal to which the two sides of a ship are united at the foremost end.

noun. The forward part of a vessel; the bow.

noun. The body of a tree, shrub, or plant; the firm part which supports the branches; the stock; the stalk; technically, the ascending axis, which ordinarily grows in an opposite direction to the root or descending axis.

noun. The stalk which supports the flower or the fruit of a plant; the peduncle of the fructification, or the pedicel of a flower; the petiole or leaf-stem. See cuts under pedicel, peduncle, and petiole.

noun. The stock of a family; a race; ancestry.

noun. A branch of a family; an offshoot.

noun. Anything resembling the stem of a plant.

noun. In type-founding, the thick stroke or body-mark of a roman or italic letter. See cut under type.

noun. In a vehicle, a bar to which the bow of a falling hood is hinged.

noun. The projecting rod of a reciprocating valve, serving to guide it in its action. See cut under slide-valve.

noun. In zoology and anatomy, any slender, especially axial, part like the stem of a plant; a stalk, stipe, rachis, footstalk, etc.

noun. In ornithology, the whole shaft of a feather.

noun. In entomology, the base of a clavate antenna, including all the joints except the enlarged outer ones: used especially in descriptions of the Lepidoptera.

noun. In musical notation, a vertical line added to the head of certain kinds of notes.

noun. In philology, a derivative from a root, having itself inflected forms, whether of declension or of conjugation, made from it; the unchanged part in a series of inflectional forms, from which the forms are viewed as made by additions; base; crude form.