English English Dictionary

A stiff wire, inserted in catheters or other tubular instruments to maintain their shape and prevent clogging.

Any small, more or less rigid, bristlelike organ; as, the caudal stylets of certain insects; the ventral stylets of certain Infusoria.

Bearing one or more styles.

Having the form of, or resembling, a style, pin, or pen; styloid.

of Style

Having style or artistic quality; given to, or fond of, the display of style; highly fashionable; modish; as, a stylish dress, house, manner.

One who is a master or a model of style, especially in writing or speaking; a critic of style.

Of or pertaining to style in language.

One of a sect of anchorites in the early church, who lived on the tops of pillars for the exercise of their patience; -- called also pillarist and pillar saint.

A combining form used in anatomy to indicate connection with, or relation to, the styloid process of the temporal bone; as, stylohyal, stylomastoid, stylomaxillary.

The uninterrupted and continuous flat band, coping, or pavement upon which the bases of a row of columns are supported. See Sub-base.

Of or pertaining to styloid process and the tongue.

A stylographic pen.

Of or pertaining to stylography; used in stylography; as, stylographic tablets.

Pertaining to, or used in, stylographic pen; as, stylographic ink.

Same as Stylographic, 1.

A mode of writing or tracing lines by means of a style on cards or tablets.

A segment in the hyoidean arch between the epihyal and tympanohyal.

Of or pertaining to the styloid process and the hyoid bone.

Styliform; as, the styloid process.