style 
style; a pedantic gtylr; a nervous xtijlr; a cyn- 
ical xtl/li . 
Stile is a constant A continual] phrase or tenour of 
speaking and writing, extending to the whole tale or pro- 
cesse of the poeme or historic, and not properly to any 
neeoe or member of a tale. 
I'Mttenham, Arte of Eng. Poesie, p. 123. 
Proper words in proper places make the true definition 
of A style. Sioifl- 
Jeffreys spoke against the motion in the coarse and 
savage style of which he was a master. 
0012 stylistic 
and arrangement necessary to be observed in formal deeds styletiform (sti'let-i-form), H. [< stylet 4- L. 
and instruments.-Lacrymal style, a short wire worn f orma form.] Shaped like a stylet; styloid. 
the style of church music. Compare a <;;;. Perpen- (Lindley), a plant of the order CanaoUMeea, 
dicular style. See perpendicular.- Queen Anne style. 
formerly Slyluleee (Ktylidwcetp). 
tion, Style, Amplification, in rhetoric. 
Appellation, etc. See runnel. 
If thought is the gold, style is the stamp which makes 
it current, and says under what king it was issued. 
Dr. J. Brou.il, Spare Hours, 3d ser., p. 2, , . 
u,., ,,/,,,, Hiot Tina vi r*^7 -, --- nowers usually witn an irregular caiyx aim corona eacu 
Mg., vi. sty j e i ( gt ,i) ; . (. ; pret. and pp. styled, ppr. Styl- with flve to ,* two 8 t a mens united into a column with 
known as t'tnnloll'-accsB. It is characterized by 
flowers usually with an irregular calyx and corolla each 
4. Distinctive manner of external presenta- 
tion ; particular mode or form (within more or ^ Kgt yii,i as we u j 
less variable limits) of construction or execu- 
tion in any art or employment ; the specific or 
characteristic formation or arrangement of any- 
thing. In this sense the applications of the word style 
are coextensive with the whole range of productive activ- 
Titian or of Rubens ; the Preraphaelite or the Impres- 
sionist style; in architecture, the Greek, medieval, and 
Renaissance styles, the Pointed or the Perpendicular style ; 
the Louis-Quatorze or the Eastlake style of furniture ; the 
Florentine style of wood-carving ; carpets and rugs in the 
Persian style ; styles in dress. 
ing. [Formerly also, and prop., stile; < style 1 , 
n.] If. To record with or as with a style ; give 
literary form to; write. 
Poesy is nothing else but Feigned History, which may 
s styled as well in prose as in verse. 
Bacon, Advancement of Learning, ii. 
2. To give or accord the style or designation 
of; entitle; denominate; call. 
He is also stiled the God of the rural inhabitants. 
Bacon, Fable of Pan. 
Declared the Deceased 
Had styled him "a Beast." 
Barham, Ingoldsby Legends, I. 64. 
and countenance, to make anything of them. 
Cooper, Lionel Lincoln, iii. 
It [a bed-chamber] is fitted up in the style of Louis XVI. 
Thackeray, Newcomes, xlvi. 
Monteverde, Claudio (1568-1643), the inventor of the 
ition, was born at Cre- 
mona in 1568. Encye. Brit., XVI. 785. 
5. Particular mode of action or manifestation ; 
^HtlUIl KLylC , Klyl&f 111 U1COO. - - 7 / * ' _ f.. 
I don't know in what style I should dress such a figure also improp. stilus, a pillar, < Gr. orr/.of a pillar, 
column, also a post, pale ; not connected with 
L. stilus, improp. written stylus, a stake, pale, 
a pointed instrument, etc., with which the 
word has been associated, so that the E. style 1 
, and stylet are now commonly confused.] 1. A .____.,,. 
free style" of musical composition, was born at Cre- piuar; a co l u mn. See style*. Z. The pin or by the long re 
' na ' n 1668 ' "" ' gnomon of a sun-dial, which marks the time by e a ( nd Uua P Hy 
its shadow, or any fixed pointer serving a simi- 
physical or mental procedure; manner; way: i ar p ur p se See cut under sun-dial. 
as, styles of rowing, riding, or walking ; styles Then turne the g]ohe Tnty ,, the ^ that , IlewBVI1 ,, 
of acting, singing, or bowing. 6. Mode, as noure be coomme to the houre in the whiche yowe sowght 
of living or of appearing; distinctive or char- the vnknowen place of the moone. 
acteristic manner or fashion, with reference to " - ** "' ""> Phrv.in ,F 
appearance, bearing, social relations, etc. ; in 
absolute use, an approved or prevalent mode ; 
superiormanner; noticeable elegance ; the fash- 
ion : as, to live in style ; style of deportment or 
of dress. 
There are some very homely women who have a stale, 
that amounts to something like beauty. 
H. B. Stowe, Oldtown, p. 68. 
That otherwise impalpable quality which women call 
style. Howells, Indian Summer, ii. 
7. Hence, in general, fine appearance; dash- 
ing character ; spirited appearance : as, a horse 
that shows style. 8. Mode of designation or 
address ; a qualifying appellation or title ; an 
epithet distinctive of rank, office, character, 
or quality. 
With one voice, sir, 
The citizens salute you with the style 
Of King of Naples. 
Fletcher, Double Marriage, v. 4. 
Give unto God his due, his reverend style. 
Middleton, Solomon Paraphrased, i. 
9. In citron., a mode of reckoning time with re- 
gard to the Julian and Gregorian calendars. See 
calendar. Style is Old or !few. The Old Style (abbrevi- 
the style, and a two-celled ovary with numerous ovules. 
The order is closely related in habit to the Lobeliaceir, 
which, however, are readily distinguished by the free style. 
It contains about 105 species, belonging to 5 genera, of 
which Stylidium is the type, mostly Australian herbs, a 
few in tropical Asia, New Zealand, and antarctic America. 
They are herbs or rarely somewhat shrubby plants with 
radical scattered or seemingly whorled leaves, which are 
entire and usually narrow or small. Their flowers form 
terminal racemes or panicles, usually primarily centripe- 
tal in development and secondarily centrifugal. Also Sty- 
h'diacete. 
Stylidium (sti-lid'i-um), ii. [ML. (Swartz, 
1807), so named from the stamen-column; < 
Gr. ort'/lop, a pillar, column, + dim. -/oW.] 
A genus of gamopetalous plants, now known 
as Candollea (Labillardiere, 1805), type of the 
order formerly called Stylidiese, and now known 
as Candolleaceee. It is characterized by flowers with 
the fifth lobe of 
the irregular co- 
rolla very differ- 
ent from the 
others, forming 
asmall or narrow 
curving lip, and 
by the long re- 
curved or repli- 
Jt. Eden, tr. of Gemma Phrysius (First Books on America, 
(ed. Arber, p. 389). 
3. In Itot., a narrowed extension of the ovary, 
which, when present, supports the stigma. It is 
usually slender, and in that case of varying length, often 
elongated, as in honeysuckle, fuchsia, and in an extreme 
case Indian corn (forming its "silk"); sometimes it is 
thick and short, as in squash, grape-vine, 
etc. ; sometimes wholly wanting, leaving 
the stigma sessile. Morphologically it is 
the attenuated tip of the carpel, hence 
equaling the carpels in number, except 
when, as in many compound pistils, the 
styles are consolidated. It is said to be 
simple when undivided, even if formed 
Campanula if. 
a, style ; b, stigma. 
Styliditnn (Candollca) laricifoliun:. 
, a flower ; t>, longitudinal section of flower : 
r, transverse section of fruit. 
elastic stamen- 
^^_rfjW^"^*J^?^Li^ 'Ve^^u^rthe^^t^thV^.tbatsheweththe A an?u! 
which are na- 
tives of Asia, 
principally of 
India. Many spe- 
cies are cultivat- 
ed under glass, 
under the name 
of stylewort, for 
their rose-color- 
ed flowers: see 
also hairtrigner- 
fmaer. The 
name Stylidium 
(Loureiro, 1790), no longer used for Candollea, is at present 
applied instead to a small tropical genus of coruaceous 
trees and shrubs, formerly Marlea (Roxburgh, 1819), some- 
times cultivated under glass for its yellow flowers. 
by the union of several. When cleft or StyliferOUS 1 (sti-lif 'e-rus), a. [< L. stylus, prop, 
slit it is bifid, trifld, etc.; when more stilus, a pointed instrument (see style* ), + fern- 
^r D %&?tf l SK. = E - i*"' 1 -] In d * ha g a ""ty'* 
tion of the carpel, the style may be ter- or styloid process ; stylate. 
minal, rising from its summit, as is styliferOUS" (sti-lif'e-rus), a. (X NL. stylus, a 
typically the case, or lateral, as in strawberry and cinque- a ty-[ e ( gee stille^), +" L. ferre = E. Sear*.] Ill 
foil, or basal, asincomfreyandsalvia the carpel being in , ;. i hp'nrin^- bearing one or more stvles 
these last cases more or less bent over. In position it may <., style styles, 
be erect, ascending, declinate, recurved, etc.; inform it styllform (stl h-form), . [< L. stylus, prop, 
may be filiform, subulate, trigonal, claviform, petaloid, etc. stilus, a pointed instrument, + forma, form. 
In relation to the corolla or calyx it may be included or ex- gnape . gee / om .] Having the shape of a style : 
serted. A style may be persistent, but is commonly cadu- _ AS ,VvliTio : n >i m-%>po-- stvlni.l 
cous, falling soon after fecundation. The function of the resembling a pen, pin, or peg, stylom. 
style is to present the stigma in a position advantageously styline (stl hn), a. [< style-' + -Jne 1 .] Ill hot., 
to receive the pollen, and to form a medium for its com- ot or pertaining to the style. 
atedO.S.) is the reckoning of time according to the Julian munication to the ovules; accordingly, it has the structure o-HrHar-iia* i"ati lia'VusI nl ri/7i/i (Jh TNT, 
calendar.thenumberingoftheyearsbeingthatoftheChris- of a tube filled or lined with a conductive tissue of the *yilSf- ua 'aC 
tian era. In this reckoning the years have 365 days, except same nature as that which composes the stigma. See pis- (Bindley), <. (jr. aryAiaiMf, aim. ot OTr/.Of, a piuai . . 
those whose numbers are divisible by 4, which have 366 til, ovary, pollen-tube, and stigma. ashaft: see style*.] In l>ot., the channel which 
days. The extra day is inserted in February, and is con- stvle :! t, . An obsolete spelling of stile*. passes from the stigma of a plant through the 
2& r'ea^TtheTale^a?^ reCX Pope' style-branch (stn'branch), Info,,., a branch style into the ovary. 
Gregory XIII., by adding 10 days to the date after October or division of the style. In the Composite the stylish (sti'hsh), a. < style 1 + -ish*.] 
4th, 1582, and thereafter making no years whose num- 
bers end with two ciphers leap-years except those whose 
Style always begins with January 1st, but in Old Style 
there was some diversity of practice. The Gregorian year 
accords closely with the tropical year ; but otherwise its 
advantages are merely ecclesiastical and theoretical. 
character of the style-branch is of important 
, , A curve constructed 
the peculiarities of style or composi- 
tion of an author. It may be drawn so that the ab- 
ing style in aspect or quality ; conformable or 
conforming to approved style or taste ; strik- 
ingly elegant; fashionable; showy: as, sti/lixli 
dress or manners; a stylish woman; a sti/lixli 
house. 
a stvlish man- 
ecclesiastical and theoretical, scissse represent the number of letters in a word, while stvlishlv (sti'lish-li), adl\ In 
This mode of correcting the calendar has been adopted the corresponding ordinates show the relative frequency ' . EJaiJnMM- showilv 
at different times by almost all civilized nations except O f the occurrence of such words, or other characteristics ""; ^ / A-'v T\ _ rn. 
Russia and other countries where the Greek Church may be selected. Experiments seem to prove that, when Stylishness (stl lish-nes), . 1 he state or prop- 
predominant, which still adhere to the Old Style. 
In England the Gregorian or New Style (abbreviated 
ff. S.) was adopted by act of Parliament in 1751, and as 
one of the years concluding a century in which the addi- 
tional or intercalary day was to be omitted (the year 
1700) had elapsed since the correction by Pope Gregory, it 
was necessary to omit 11 instead of 10 days in the current 
year. Accordingly, 11 days in September, 1752, were re- 
trenched, and the 3d day was reckoned the 14th. The 
difference between the Old and New Styles is now 12 days. 
Attic style. See Attici. Concertante, Corinthian 
crystalline, cushion, discharge style. See the qualify- 
ing words. Early English style, a modern factitious 
style of furniture and decoration, in which some elements 
of the decoration of the middle ages were used mingled 
with others. It was characterized by a free use of black 
and gold, and by designs in color in hard flat patterns of 
one color relieved upon another. Florid style of me- 
dieval architecture. See florid. Garancin style. 
Same as madder style. Geometric Style. See i/eianetrie. 
Jesuit style, in arch. See baroque, 2. Juridical 
styles, in Scots law, the particular forms of expression 
a sufficiently extensive analysis is made in this manner, 
every writer will be found to be represented by a curve 
peculiar to himself. Science, XIII. 92. 
Stylet (sti'let), n. [< OF. stylet, < It. stiletto, a 
pointed instrument, dagger, dim. of stilo, a 
pointed instrument: see style 1 , andcf. stiletto.'] 
1. A slender pointed instrument; a stiletto. 
" Come, Paul ! " she reiterated, her eye grazing me with 
its hard ray like a steel stylet. 
Charlotte Bronte, Villette, xli. 
erty of being stylish, fashionable, or showy; 
showiness: as, stylishness of dress or of an 
equipage. Jane, Austen, Northanger Abbey, viii. 
stylist (sti'list), n. [< style 1 + -ist.] A writer 
or speaker distinguished for excellence or in- 
dividuality of style ; one who cultivates, or is 
a master or critic of, literary style. 
Exquisite style, without the frigidity and the over-cor 
rectness which the more deliberate stylists frequently dis- 
play. G. Saintslmry, Hist. Elizabethan Literature, x. 
2. In sim/., the perforator of a trocar; the 
stiffening 'wire or rod in a flexible catheter; Stylistic (sti-hs tik), a. and 11. [< ttglitt + 4c.] 
- - - I. a. Of or relating to style. 
sometimes, a probe. Alsostilette. 3. Inro67.,a 
little style ; also, a style ; specifically, in entom., 
one of the second of the three pairs of rhabdites 
or appendages of the abdominal sternites enter- 
ing into the formation of the ovipositor. See 
cut under Arctisca. 
Nor has accuracy been sacrificed to stylistic require- 
ments. Athenmim, No. 3044, p. 292. 
II. a. I. The art of forming a good style in 
writing. Also used in the plural. 2. A trea- 
tise on style. [Bare.] 
