Hyostylic :: Hyostylic (a.) 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..

Hypostyle :: Hypostyle (a.) Resting upon columns; constructed by means of columns; -- especially applied to the great hall at Karnak.

Instyle :: Instyle (v. t.) To style.

Octastyle :: Octastyle (a.) See Octostyle.

Octostyle :: Octostyle (a.) Having eight columns in the front; -- said of a temple or portico. The Parthenon is octostyle, but most large Greek temples are hexastele. See Hexastyle..

Octostyle :: Octostyle (n.) An octostyle portico or temple.

Pentastyle :: Pentastyle (a.) Having five columns in front; -- said of a temple or portico in classical architecture.

Pentastyle :: Pentastyle (n.) A portico having five columns.

Peristyle :: Peristyle (n.) 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..

Polystyle :: Polystyle (a.) Having many columns; -- said of a building, especially of an interior part or court; as, a polystyle hall..

Polystyle :: Polystyle (n.) A polystyle hall or edifice.

Prostyle :: Prostyle (a.) Having columns in front.

Prostyle :: Prostyle (n.) A prostyle portico or building.

Pycnostyle :: Pycnostyle (a.) See under Intercolumniation.

Pycnostyle :: Pycnostyle (n.) A pycnostyle colonnade.

Pygostyle :: Pygostyle (n.) 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 vertebrae, and supports the uropigium..

Stylagalmaic :: Stygian (a.) Of or pertaining to the river Styx; hence, hellish; infernal. See Styx..

Stylar :: Stylagalmaic (a.) Performing the office of columns; as, Atlantes and Caryatides are stylagalmaic figures or images..

Stylaster :: Stylar (a.) See Stilar.

Style :: Stylaster (n.) Any one of numerous species of delicate, usually pink, calcareous hydroid corals of the genus Stylaster..

Style :: Style (v. t.) 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..

Style :: Style (v. t.) Hence, anything resembling the ancient style in shape or use..

Style :: Style (v. t.) A pen; an author's pen.

Style :: Style (v. t.) A sharp-pointed tool used in engraving; a graver.

Style :: Style (v. t.) A kind of blunt-pointed surgical instrument.

Style :: Style (v. t.) A long, slender, bristlelike process, as the anal styles of insects..

Style :: Style (v. t.) The pin, or gnomon, of a dial, the shadow of which indicates the hour. See Gnomon..

Style :: Style (v. t.) The elongated part of a pistil between the ovary and the stigma. See Illust. of Stamen, and of Pistil..

Style :: Style (v. t.) 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..

Style :: Style (v. t.) 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..

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