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The stalk or stem of grain and grasses (including the bamboo), jointed and usually hollow.

Having jointed stems or culms.

A system of religious belief and worship. That which was the religion of Moses is the ceremonial or cult of the religion of Christ. Coleridge.

Pertaining to Cumberland, England, or to a system of rocks found there. Cumbrian system (Geol.), the slate or graywacke system of rocks, now included in the Cambrian or Silurian system; -- so called because most prominent at Cumberland.

Distributed in a curved line, as leaves along a stem.

can not wither her, nor custom stale Her infinite variety. Shak. Custom of merchants, a system or code of customs by which affairs of commerce are regulated. -- General customs, those which extend over a state or kingdom. -- Particular customs, those which are limited to a city or district; as, the customs of London.…

The outermost skin or pellicle of a plant, found especially in leaves and young stems.

ally roundish or egg-shaped, and often unsymmetrical; some were sessile, others had short stems.

of, the disease called tetter; herpetic. Dartroud diathesis, A morbid condition of the system predisposing to the development of certain skin deseases, such as eczema, psoriasis, and pityriasis. Also called rheumic diathesis, and hipretism. Piffard.

ness, a variety of deafness dependent upon morbid change in some portion of the nervous system, especially the auditory nerve.

A prefix, from Gr. de`ka, signifying ten; specifically (Metric System), a prefix signifying the weight or measure that is ten times the principal unit.

A weight of the metric system; ten grams, equal to about 154.32 grains avoirdupois.

A measure of capacity in the metric system; a cubic volume of ten liters, equal to about 610.24 cubic inches, that is, 2.642 wine gallons.

A measure of length in the metric system; ten meters, equal to about 393.7 inches.

A weight in the metric system; one tenth of a gram, equal to 1.5432 grains avoirdupois.

A measure of capacity or volume in the metric system; one tenth of a liter, equal to 6.1022 cubic inches, or 3.38 fluid ounces.

The system of a decimal currency, decimal weights, measures, etc.

To reduce to a decimal system; as, to decimalize the currency. -- Dec`i*mal*i*za"tion, n.

A measure of length in the metric system; one tenth of a meter, equal to 3.937 inches.

Several times compounded or divided, as a leaf or stem; decomposite.