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eet in length, they spread a very large top, having no bough nor twig in the trunk or the stem. Sir W. Raleigh. The lowering spring, with lavish rain, Beats down the slender stem and breaded grain. Dryden.

Embracing the stem with its base; amplexicaul; as a leaf or petiole.

A stem-winding watch. [Colloq.]

Wound by mechanism connected with the stem; as, a stem-winding watch.

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

Having no stem; (Bot.) acaulescent.

A small or young stem.

One of the ocelli of an insect. See Ocellus.

One who, or that which, stems (in any of the senses of the verbs).

A large building in which tobacco is stemmed. [U. S.] Bartlett.

Abounding in stems, or mixed with stems; -- said of tea, dried currants, etc. [Colloq.]

A crossbar of wood in a shaft, serving as a step.

A piece of curved timber bolted to the stem, keelson, and apron in a ship's frame near the bow.

Non-germinal.

Abstaining from wine. [Orig. Latin sense.] Under his special eye Abstemious I grew up and thrived amain. Milton.

The quality of being abstemious, temperate, or sparing in the use of food and strong drinks. It expresses a greater degree of abstinence than temperance.

Having unequal stamens; having stamens different in number from the petals.

To form an abscess; to swell and fill with pus. Wiseman.

The formation of an aposteme; the process of suppuration. [Written corruptly imposthumation.] Wiseman.

Pertaining to, or partaking of the nature of, an aposteme.