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In Music, the upright or downright line added to the head of a musical note; the head being that part filled in black or left open, as the case maybe. STENELYTRANS, Sten elytra. {Gr. trnves, narrow; iXvreev, a sheath.) The name given by Latreille to a family of Coleopterous insects, comprehending those in which the elytra become narrow at the posterior part of the body. [s. 1184]