STEM; STEEM

v. n.

2 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
v.

To gleam. [Obs.] His head bald, that shone as any glass, . . . [And] stemed as a furnace of a leed [caldron]. Chaucer.

2.
n.

A gleam of light; flame. [Obs.]


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