Stem
Webster's Dictionary [1]
(1): ( n.) Fig.: An advanced or leading position; the lookout.
(2): ( v. i.) Alt. of Steem
(3): ( n.) Alt. of Steem
(4): ( n.) The principal body of a tree, shrub, or plant, of any kind; the main stock; the part which supports the branches or the head or top.
(5): ( n.) A little branch which connects a fruit, flower, or leaf with a main branch; a peduncle, pedicel, or petiole; as, the stem of an apple or a cherry.
(6): ( n.) The stock of a family; a race or generation of progenitors.
(7): ( n.) A branch of a family.
(8): ( n.) A curved piece of timber to which the two sides of a ship are united at the fore end. The lower end of it is scarfed to the keel, and the bowsprit rests upon its upper end. Hence, the forward part of a vessel; the bow.
(9): ( n.) The part of an inflected word which remains unchanged (except by euphonic variations) throughout a given inflection; theme; base.
(10): ( n.) Anything resembling a stem or stalk; as, the stem of a tobacco pipe; the stem of a watch case, or that part to which the ring, by which it is suspended, is attached.
(11): ( n.) That part of a plant which bears leaves, or rudiments of leaves, whether rising above ground or wholly subterranean.
(12): ( n.) The entire central axis of a feather.
(13): ( n.) The basal portion of the body of one of the Pennatulacea, or of a gorgonian.
(14): ( n.) The short perpendicular line added to the body of a note; the tail of a crotchet, quaver, semiquaver, etc.
(15): ( v. i.) To move forward against an obstacle, as a vessel against a current.
(16): ( v. t.) To remove the stem or stems from; as, to stem cherries; to remove the stem and its appendages (ribs and veins) from; as, to stem tobacco leaves.
(17): ( v. t.) To ram, as clay, into a blasting hole.
(18): ( v. t.) To oppose or cut with, or as with, the stem of a vessel; to resist, or make progress against; to stop or check the flow of, as a current.
King James Dictionary [2]
STEM, n. G., stock, stem, race. The primary sense is to set, to fix.
1. The principal body of a tree, shrub or plant of any kind the main stock the firm part which supports the branches.
After thy are shot up thirty feet in length, they spread a very large top, having no bough or twig on the stem.
The lowring spring with lavish rain, beats down the slender stem and bearded grain.
2. The peduncle of the fructification, or the pedicle of a flower that which supports the flower or the fruit of a planet. 3. The stock of a family a race or generation of progenitors as a noble stem.
Learn well their lineage and their ancient stem.
4. Progeny branch of a family.
Of that victorious stock.
5. In a ship, a circular piece of timber, to which the two sides of a ship are united at the fore end. The lower end of it is scarfed to the keel, and the bowsprit rests upon its upper end. From stem to stern, is from one end of the ship to the other, or through the whole length.
STEM,
1. To oppose or resist, as a current or to make progress against a current. We say, the ship was not able with all her sails to stem the tide.
They stem the flood with their erected breasts.
2. To stop to check as a stream or moving force.
At length Erasmus, that great injurd name, stemmd the wild torrent of a barbrous age, and drove those holy Vandals off the stage.
Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature [3]
( גֵּזִע , Geza, the Stump of a tree as cut down, "stock," Job 14:8; hence the Trunk of a tree, whether old [ Isaiah 11:1] or just planted, "stock" [ Isaiah 40:24]).
