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• Armed

  ·Impf & ·p.p. of <<Arm>>. II. Armed ·adj Having horns, beak, talons, etc; — said of beasts and bir...

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• armed

  Completely equipped for war. ♦ Armed at all points, covered with armour. ♦ Armed "en flute," see...

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• Stem

  ·noun A branch of a family. II. Stem ·noun The entire central axis of a feather. III. Stem ·vt To ...

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• stem

  The foremost piece uniting the bows of a ship; its lower end scarphs into the keel, and the bowsprit...

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• Cross-armed

  ·adj With arms crossed. ...

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• Heavy-armed

  ·adj Wearing heavy or complete armor; carrying heavy arms. ...

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• Light-armed

  ·adj Armed with light weapons or accouterments. ...

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• Long-armed

  ·adj Having long arms; as, the long-armed ape or gibbon. ...

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• Stem-clasping

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

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• Stem-winder

  ·noun A stem-winding watch. ...

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• Stem-winding

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

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• gouty-stem

  n. the Australian Baobab-tree (q.v.), Adansonia gregori, F. v. M.According to Maiden (p. 60), Sterc...

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• false stem

  A hard timber fayed to the fore-part of the main stem, its tail covering the fore-end of the keel. (...

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• stem-knee

  In ship-building, the compass-timber which connects the keel with the stem. (See dead-wood knees.) ...

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