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- English Word Stylometer Definition An instrument for measuring columns.
- English Word Stylommata Definition Same as Stylommatophora.
- English Word Stylommatophora Definition A division of Pulmonata in which the eyes are situated at the tips of the tentacles. It includes the common land snails and slugs. See Illust. under Snail.
- English Word Stylommatophorous Definition Of or pertaining to Stylommatophora.
- English Word Stylopodia Definition of Stylopodium
- English Word Stylopodium Definition An expansion at the base of the style, as in umbelliferous plants.
- English Word Stylops Definition A genus of minute insects parasitic, in their larval state, on bees and wasps. It is the typical genus of the group Strepsiptera, formerly considered a distinct order, but now generally referred to the Coleoptera. See Strepsiptera.
- English Word Stylus Definition An instrument for writing. See Style, n., 1.
- English Word Stylus Definition That needle-shaped part at the tip of the playing arm of phonograph which sits in the groove of a phonograph record while it is turning, to detect the undulations in the phonograph groove and convert them into vibrations which are transmitted to a system (since 1920 electronic) which converts the signal into sound; also called needle. The stylus is frequently composed of metal or diamond.
- English Word Stylus Definition The needle-like device used to cut the grooves which record the sound on the original disc during recording of a phonograph record.
- English Word Stylus Definition A pen-shaped pointing device used to specify the cursor position on a graphics tablet.
- English Word Styphnate Definition A salt of styphnic acid.
- English Word Styphnic Definition Pertaining to, or designating, a yellow crystalline astringent acid, (NO2)3.C6H.(OH)2, obtained by the action of nitric acid on resorcin. Styphnic acid resembles picric acid, but is not bitter. It acts like a strong dibasic acid, having a series of well defined salts.
- English Word Styptic Definition Producing contraction; stopping bleeding; having the quality of restraining hemorrhage when applied to the bleeding part; astringent.
- English Word Styptic Definition A styptic medicine.
- English Word Styptical Definition Styptic; astringent.
- English Word Stypticity Definition The quality or state of being styptic; astringency.
- English Word Styracin Definition A white crystalline tasteless substance extracted from gum storax, and consisting of a salt of cinnamic acid with cinnamic alcohol.
- English Word Styrax Definition A genus of shrubs and trees, mostly American or Asiatic, abounding in resinous and aromatic substances. Styrax officinalis yields storax, and S. Benzoin yields benzoin.
- English Word Styrax Definition Same as Storax.
- English Word Styrol Definition See Styrolene.
- English Word Styrolene Definition An unsaturated hydrocarbon, C8H8, obtained by the distillation of storax, by the decomposition of cinnamic acid, and by the condensation of acetylene, as a fragrant, aromatic, mobile liquid; -- called also phenyl ethylene, vinyl benzene, styrol, styrene, and cinnamene.
- English Word Styrone Definition A white crystalline substance having a sweet taste and a hyacinthlike odor, obtained by the decomposition of styracin; -- properly called cinnamic, / styryl, alcohol.
- English Word Styryl Definition A hypothetical radical found in certain derivatives of styrolene and cinnamic acid; -- called also cinnyl, or cinnamyl.
- English Word Stythe Definition Choke damp.
- English Word Stythy Definition See Stithy.
- English Word Styx Definition The principal river of the lower world, which had to be crossed in passing to the regions of the dead.
- English Word Suability Definition Liability to be sued; the state of being subjected by law to civil process.
- English Word Suable Definition Capable of being sued; subject by law to be called to answer in court.
- English Word Suade Definition To persuade.