Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Steem \Steem\, n. & v.
   See {Esteem}. [Obs.] --Spenser.

Steem \Steem\, n. & v.
   See 1st and 2nd {Stem}. [Obs.] --Chaucer.

Stem \Stem\, Steem \Steem\, v. i.
   To gleam. [Obs.]

         His head bald, that shone as any glass, . . . [And]
         stemed as a furnace of a leed [caldron]. --Chaucer.

Stem \Stem\, Steem \Steem\, n.
   A gleam of light; flame. [Obs.]