Sc. [f. STEM v.2] Resistance, opposition; a check.
c. 1700. Mrs. Goodal, in Tweedie, Sel. Biogr. (Wodrow Soc.), II. 484. There is something of a stem lately risen in my heart.
1889. H. Morton, in Life (1895), 189. The notice gave us a stem … He did not seem to think he was dying.
