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Furnished with stamens; producing stamens.

Consisting of stamens or threads.

Bearing or having stamens.

An abortive stamen, or any organ modified from an abortive stamen.

not able to germinate or bear fruit; unfruitful; as, a sterile flower, which bears only stamens.

ually the terminal portion, and is commonly somewhat glutinous or viscid. See Illust. of Stamen and of Flower.

tudied; any object of attentive consideration. The Holy Scriptures, especially the New Testament, are her daily study. Law. The proper study of mankind is man. Pope.

Foolish; silly. [Obs.] Testament of Love.

The elongated part of a pistil between the ovary and the stigma. See Illust. of Stamen, and of Pistil.

To render submissive; to bring under command; to reduce to mildness or obedience; to tame; as, to subdue a stubborn child; to subdue the temper or passions.

ort neck, and fine short glossy fur, mostly black, but brownish on the nose. It is easily tamed. Called also bruang, and Malayan bear. -- Sun beetle (Zoöl.), any small lustrous beetle of the genus Amara. -- Sun bittern (Zoöl.), a singular South American bird (Eurypyga helias), in some respects related both to the rai…

ome States of the United States, an officer who presides over the probate of wills and testaments and yield the settlement of estates.

Having the stamens united by their anthers; as, synantherous flowers.

A Linnæan class of plants in which the stamens are united by the anthers.

Having the stamens united by the anthers; of or pertaining to the Syngenesia.

Having stamens and pistil in the same head, or, in mosses, having antheridia and archegonia on the same receptacle.

One of the first three Gospels of the New Testament. See Synoptist.

Capable of being tamed, subdued, or reclaimed from wildness or savage ferociousness. -- Tam"a*ble*ness, n.

A translation or paraphrase of some portion of the Old Testament Scriptures in the Chaldee or Aramaic language or dialect.

The condition, quality, or relation of metameric substances, or their respective derivatives, which are more or less interchangeable, according as one form or the other is the more stable. It is a special case of metamerism; thus, the lactam and the lactim compounds exhibit tautomerism.