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a. [ L. amphiprostylos, Gr. &unr_; having a double prostyle: cf. F. amphiprostyle. See Prostyle. ] (Arch.) Doubly prostyle; having columns at each end, but not at the sides. -- n. An amphiprostyle temple or edifice. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Gr. &unr_; + &unr_; pillar, support. ] (Anat.) Having the mandibular arch articulated with the hyoid arch and the cranium, as in the cestraciont sharks; -- said of a skull. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. & n. [ L. araeostylos, Gr. &unr_;; &unr_; at intervals + &unr_; pillar, column. ] (Arch.) See Intercolumniation. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. & n. [ Gr. &unr_; as intervals + &unr_;. See Systyle. ] (Arch.) See Intercolumniation. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. & n. See Intercolumniation, and Aræostyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. & n. See Intercolumniation, and Aræosystyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Gr. 'a priv. + &unr_; pillar. ] (arch.) Without columns or pilasters. Weale. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Mining) A small dam to prevent free passage of water in an adit or level. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Auto- + Gr. sty^los pillar. ] (Anat.) Having the mandibular arch articulated directly to the cranium, as in the skulls of the Amphibia. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. blasto`s sprout, bud + &unr_; a pillar. ] (Zool.) In certain hydroids, an imperfect zooid, whose special function is to produce medusoid buds. See Hydroidea, and Athecata. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cephalo- + Gr. sty^los a pillar. ] (Anat.) The anterior end of the notochord and its bony sheath in the base of cartilaginous crania. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. of a style associated with rural areas; as, country-style sausage.
Syn. -- country(prenominal). [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. [ Cyclo- + Gr. sty^los column. ] Relating to a structure composed of a circular range of columns, without a core or building within. Weale. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cyclo + style. ] A contrivance for producing manifold copies of writing or drawing. The writing or drawing is done with a style carrying a small wheel at the end which makes minute punctures in the paper, thus converting it into a stencil. Copies are transferred with an inked roller. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_;&unr_;&unr_;&unr_; bent + &unr_;&unr_;&unr_; pillar. ] (Arch.) A circular projecting portion. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Gr. &unr_;; de`ka ten + sty`los a column. ] (Arch.) Having ten columns in front; -- said of a portico, temple, etc. -- n. A portico having ten pillars or columns in front. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. diastylus, Gr. &unr_;; dia` through, asunder + &unr_; pillar, column: cf. F. diastyle. ] (Arch.) See under Intercolumniation. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. any slime mold of the genus Dictostylium. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

(Dressmaking) A style of dress prevalent at the time of the French Directory, characterized by great extravagance of design and imitating the Greek and Roman costumes. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

a. [ Gr. di- = di`s- twice + &unr_; pillar: cf. F. distyle. ] (Arch.) Having two columns in front; -- said of a temple, portico, or the like. [ 1913 Webster ]

Distyle in antis, having columns between two antæ. See Anta. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Gr. &unr_; twelve + &unr_; column: cf. F. dodécastyle. ] (Arch.) Having twelve columns in front. -- n. A dodecastyle portico, or building. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Endo- + Gr. &unr_; a pillar. ] (Zoöl.) A fold of the endoderm, which projects into the blood cavity of ascidians. See Tunicata. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To style; to name. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. epistylium, Gr. &unr_;; 'epi` upon + &unr_; column: cf. F. épistyle. ] (Anc. Arch.) A massive piece of stone or wood laid immediately on the abacus of the capital of a column or pillar; -- now called architrave. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_;, neut. of &unr_; with pillars at the best distances; e'y^ well + &unr_; pillar: cf. F. eustyle. ] (Arch.) See Intercolumnlation. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Bot.) Having styles of two or more distinct forms or lengths. Darwin. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Bot.) The condition of being heterostyled. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Gr. &unr_; with six columns; "e`x six + column: cf. F. hexastyle.] (Arch.) Having six columns in front; -- said of a portico or temple. -- n. A hexastyle portico or temple. [1913 Webster]

a. [ Homo- + style. ] (Bot.) Having only one form of pistils; -- said of the flowers of some plants. Darwin. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Hyo- + Gr. &unr_; a pillar. ] (Anat.) Having the mandible suspended by the hyomandibular, or upper part of the hyoid arch, as in fishes, instead of directly articulated with the skull as in mammals; -- said of the skull. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Gr. &unr_; resting on pillars; &unr_; under + &unr_; a pillar. ] (Arch.) Resting upon columns; constructed by means of columns; -- especially applied to the great hall at Karnak.

v. t. To style. [ Obs. ] Crashaw. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. See Octostyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Octo- + Gr. &unr_; a pillar: cf. F. octostyle. ] (Arch.) Having eight columns in the front; -- said of a temple or portico. The Parthenon is octostyle, but most large Greek temples are hexastyle. See Hexastyle. -- n. An octostyle portico or temple. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Penta- + Gr. &unr_; a pillar. ] (Arch.) Having five columns in front; -- said of a temple or portico in classical architecture. -- n. A portico having five columns. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. peristylum, Gr. peri`stylon, peri`stylos; peri` about + sty^los a column: cf. F. péristyle. ] (Arch.) A range of columns with their entablature, etc.; specifically, a complete system of columns, whether on all sides of a court, or surrounding a building, such as the cella of a temple. Used in the former sense, it gives name to the larger and inner court of a Roman dwelling, the peristyle. See Colonnade. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Gr. &unr_; with many columns; poly`s many + &unr_; column: cf. F. polystyle. ] (Arch.) Having many columns; -- said of a building, especially of an interior part or court; as, a polystyle hall. -- n. A polystyle hall or edifice. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. prostylus, Gr. &unr_;; &unr_; before + &unr_; pillar, column: cf. F. prostyle. ] (Arch.) Having columns in front. -- n. A prostyle portico or building. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Gr. &unr_; with the pillars close together; &unr_; close + &unr_; a column, pillar: cf. F. pycnostyle. ] (Anc. Arch.) See under Intercolumniation. -n. A pycnostyle colonnade. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. pygh` the rump + &unr_; a pillar. ] (Anat.) The plate of bone which forms the posterior end of the vertebral column in most birds; the plowshare bone; the vomer. It is formed by the union of a number of the last caudal vertebræ, and supports the uropigium. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Gr. sty^los a column + 'a`galma an image. ] (Arch.) Performing the office of columns; as, Atlantes and Caryatides are stylagalmaic figures or images. [ Written also stylogalmaic. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. See Stilar. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ NL., from Gr. sty^los pillar + 'asth`r star. ] (Zool.) Any one of numerous species of delicate, usually pink, calcareous hydroid corals of the genus Stylaster. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. stile, F. style, Of. also stile, L. stilus a style or writing instrument, manner or writing, mode of expression; probably for stiglus, meaning, a pricking instrument, and akin to E. stick. See Stick, v. t., and cf. Stiletto. The spelling with y is due to a supposed connection with Gr. sty^los a pillar. ] 1. 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Hence, anything resembling the ancient style in shape or use. Specifically: -- [ 1913 Webster ]

(a) A pen; an author's pen. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

(b) A sharp-pointed tool used in engraving; a graver. [ 1913 Webster ]

(c) A kind of blunt-pointed surgical instrument. [ 1913 Webster ]

(d) (Zool.) A long, slender, bristlelike process, as the anal styles of insects. [ 1913 Webster ]

(e) [ Perhaps fr. Gr. sty^los a pillar. ] The pin, or gnomon, of a dial, the shadow of which indicates the hour. See Gnomon. [ 1913 Webster ]

(f) [ Probably fr. Gr. sty^los a pillar. ] (Bot.) The elongated part of a pistil between the ovary and the stigma. See Illust. of Stamen, and of Pistil. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

High style, as when that men to kinges write. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

Style is the dress of thoughts. Chesterfield. [ 1913 Webster ]

Proper words in proper places make the true definition of style. Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

It is style alone by which posterity will judge of a great work. I. Disraeli. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

The ornamental style also possesses its own peculiar merit. Sir J. Reynolds. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. Conformity to a recognized standard; manner which is deemed elegant and appropriate, especially in social demeanor; fashion. [ 1913 Webster ]

According to the usual style of dedications. C. Middleton. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

One style to a gracious benefactor, another to a proud, insulting foe. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

7. (Chron.) A mode of reckoning time, with regard to the Julian and Gregorian calendars. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Style is Old or New. The Old Style follows the Julian manner of computing the months and days, or the calendar as established by Julius Caesar, in which every fourth year consists of 366 days, and the other years of 365 days. This is about 11 minutes in a year too much. Pope Georgy XIII. reformed the calendar by retrenching 10 days in October, 1582, in order to bring back the vernal equinox to the same day as at the time of the Council of Nice, a. d. 325. This reformation was adopted by act of the British Parliament in 1751, by which act 11 days in September, 1752, were retrenched, and the third day was reckoned the fourteenth. This mode of reckoning is called New Style, according to which every year divisible by 4, unless it is divisible by 100 without being divisible by 400, has 366 days, and any other year 365 days. [ 1913 Webster ]

Style of court, the practice or manner observed by a court in its proceedings. Ayliffe. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Diction; phraseology; manner; course; title. See Diction. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Styled p. pr. & vb. n. Styling. ] To entitle; to term, name, or call; to denominate. “Styled great conquerors.” Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

How well his worth and brave adventures styled. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- To call; name; denominate; designate; term; characterize. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F., dim. of style; cf. It. stiletto. See Stiletto. ] A small poniard; a stiletto. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Surg.) (a) An instrument for examining wounds and fistulas, and for passing setons, and the like; a probe, -- called also specillum. (b) A stiff wire, inserted in catheters or other tubular instruments to maintain their shape and prevent clogging. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Zool.) Any small, more or less rigid, bristlelike organ; as, the caudal stylets of certain insects; the ventral stylets of certain Infusoria. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Style + -ferous. ] (Bot.) Bearing one or more styles. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Style + -form: cf. F. styliforme. ] Having the form of, or resembling, a style, pin, or pen; styloid. [ 1913 Webster ]