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  1. I've read the book from stem to stern.
    这本书我已从头至尾读完。



Stem \Stem\ (st[e^]m), n. [AS. stemn, stefn, st[ae]fn; akin to
OS. stamn the stem of a ship, D. stam stem, steven stem of a
ship, G. stamm stem, steven stem of a ship, Icel. stafn,
stamn, stem of a ship, stofn, stomn, stem, Sw. stam a tree
trunk, Dan. stamme. Cf. {Staff}, {Stand}.]
1. 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.

After they are shot up thirty feet 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.

2. 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.

3. The stock of a family; a race or generation of
progenitors. ``All that are of noble stem.'' --Milton.

While I do pray, learn here thy stem
And true descent. --Herbert.

4. A branch of a family.

This is a stem
Of that victorious stock. --Shak.

5. (Naut.) 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.

6. Fig.: An advanced or leading position; the lookout.

Wolsey sat at the stem more than twenty years.
--Fuller.

7. 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.

8. (Bot.) That part of a plant which bears leaves, or
rudiments of leaves, whether rising above ground or wholly
subterranean.

9. (Zo["o]l.)
(a) The entire central axis of a feather.
(b) The basal portion of the body of one of the
Pennatulacea, or of a gorgonian.

10. (Mus.) The short perpendicular line added to the body of
a note; the tail of a crotchet, quaver, semiquaver, etc.

11. (Gram.) The part of an inflected word which remains
unchanged (except by euphonic variations) throughout a
given inflection; theme; base.

{From stem to stern} (Naut.), from one end of the ship to the
other, or through the whole length.

{Stem leaf} (Bot.), a leaf growing from the stem of a plant,
as contrasted with a basal or radical leaf.

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