STEM

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 may be. BTENELYTRANS, Sten elytra. (Yunanca köken — orijinale bakınız.) The name given by Latreille to a fami ly of Coleopterous Insects, comprehending those in which the elytra become narrow at the posterior part of the body. The STENOGRAPHY.art of short Jiand, otherwise(Yunanca köken — orijinale bakınız.)This art has been practised from remote antiquity, audit is said to have originated in the hieroglyphics of the Egyptians. Nu tneriiiis systems of Stenography have been invented in more recent times, many of them of great simplicity; but it would be out of place here to enter Into any details respecting them. [s. 1193]