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Isostemony :: Isostemony (n.) The quality or state of being isostemonous.

Runt :: Runt (a.) The dead stump of a tree; also, the stem of a plant..

Bole :: Bole (n.) The trunk or stem of a tree, or that which is like it..

Distempering :: Distempering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Distempe.

Scape :: Scape (n.) A peduncle rising from the ground or from a subterranean stem, as in the stemless violets, the bloodroot, and the like..

Non-episcopal :: Non-Episcopal (a.) Not Episcopal; not pertaining to the Episcopal church or system.

Stemma :: Stemmata (pl. ) of Stemm.

Cumbrian :: Cumbrian (a.) Pertaining to Cumberland, England, or to a system of rocks found there..

Shaft :: Shaft (n.) The stem or midrib of a feather.

Interlock :: Interlock (v. i.) To unite, embrace, communicate with, or flow into, one another; to be connected in one system; to lock into one another; to interlace firmly..

Caesarism :: Caesarism (n.) A system of government in which unrestricted power is exercised by a single person, to whom, as Caesar or emperor, it has been committed by the popular will; imperialism; also, advocacy or support of such a system of government..

Caulocarpous :: Caulocarpous (a.) Having stems which bear flowers and fruit year after year, as most trees and shrubs..

Antidromous :: Antidromous (a.) Changing the direction in the spiral sequence of leaves on a stem.

Primum Mobile :: Primum mobile () In the Ptolemaic system, the outermost of the revolving concentric spheres constituting the universe, the motion of which was supposed to carry with it all the inclosed spheres with their planets in a daily revolution from east to west. See Crystalline heavens, under Crystalline..

Krameria :: Krameria (n.) A genus of spreading shrubs with many stems, from one species of which (K. triandra), found in Peru, rhatany root, used as a medicine, is obtained..

Spawn :: Spawn (v. t.) The buds or branches produced from underground stems.

Stemson :: Stemple (n.) A crossbar of wood in a shaft, serving as a step..

Jetty :: "Jetty (n.) A structure of wood or stone extended into the sea to influence the current or tide, or to protect a harbor; a mole; as, the Eads system of jetties at the mouth of the Mississippi River..

Politic :: Politic (a.) Sagacious in promoting a policy; ingenious in devising and advancing a system of management; devoted to a scheme or system rather than to a principle; hence, in a good sense, wise; prudent; sagacious; and in a bad sense, artful; unscrupulous; cunning; -- said of persons..

Dwale :: Dwale (a.) The tincture sable or black when blazoned according to the fantastic system in which plants are substituted for the tinctures.

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