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- English Word Style Definition An instrument used by the ancients in writing on tablets covered with wax, having one of its ends sharp, and the other blunt, and somewhat expanded, for the purpose of making erasures by smoothing the wax.
- English Word Style Definition Hence, anything resembling the ancient style in shape or use.
- English Word Style Definition A pen; an author's pen.
- English Word Style Definition A sharp-pointed tool used in engraving; a graver.
- English Word Style Definition A kind of blunt-pointed surgical instrument.
- English Word Style Definition A long, slender, bristlelike process, as the anal styles of insects.
- English Word Style Definition The pin, or gnomon, of a dial, the shadow of which indicates the hour. See Gnomon.
- English Word Style Definition The elongated part of a pistil between the ovary and the stigma. See Illust. of Stamen, and of Pistil.
- English Word Style Definition Mode of expressing thought in language, whether oral or written; especially, such use of language in the expression of thought as exhibits the spirit and faculty of an artist; choice or arrangement of words in discourse; rhetorical expression.
- English Word Style Definition Mode of presentation, especially in music or any of the fine arts; a characteristic of peculiar mode of developing in idea or accomplishing a result.
- English Word Style Definition Conformity to a recognized standard; manner which is deemed elegant and appropriate, especially in social demeanor; fashion.
- English Word Style Definition Mode or phrase by which anything is formally designated; the title; the official designation of any important body; mode of address; as, the style of Majesty.
- English Word Style Definition A mode of reckoning time, with regard to the Julian and Gregorian calendars.
- English Word Style Definition To entitle; to term, name, or call; to denominate.
- English Word Styled Definition of Style
- English Word Stylet Definition A small poniard; a stiletto.
- English Word Stylet Definition An instrument for examining wounds and fistulas, and for passing setons, and the like; a probe, -- called also specillum.
- English Word Stylet Definition A stiff wire, inserted in catheters or other tubular instruments to maintain their shape and prevent clogging.
- English Word Stylet Definition Any small, more or less rigid, bristlelike organ; as, the caudal stylets of certain insects; the ventral stylets of certain Infusoria.
- English Word Styliferous Definition Bearing one or more styles.