English English Dictionary

Of or pertaining to the styloid process.

Of or pertaining to the styloid and mastoid processes of the temporal bone.

Of or pertaining to the styloid process and the maxilla.

An instrument for measuring columns.

Same as Stylommatophora.

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.

Of or pertaining to Stylommatophora.

of Stylopodium

An expansion at the base of the style, as in umbelliferous plants.

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.

An instrument for writing. See Style, n., 1.

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.

The needle-like device used to cut the grooves which record the sound on the original disc during recording of a phonograph record.

A pen-shaped pointing device used to specify the cursor position on a graphics tablet.

A salt of styphnic acid.

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.

Producing contraction; stopping bleeding; having the quality of restraining hemorrhage when applied to the bleeding part; astringent.

A styptic medicine.

Styptic; astringent.

The quality or state of being styptic; astringency.