Style

1. v. t. A mode of reckoning time, with regard to the Julian and Gregorian calendars.
2. 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.
3. v. t. Hence, anything resembling the ancient style in shape or use.
4. v. t. A pen; an author’s pen.
5. v. t. A sharp-pointed tool used in engraving; a graver.
6. v. t. A kind of blunt-pointed surgical instrument.
7. v. t. A long, slender, bristlelike process, as the anal styles of insects.
8. v. t. The pin, or gnomon, of a dial, the shadow of which indicates the hour. See Gnomon.
9. v. t. The elongated part of a pistil between the ovary and the stigma. See Illust. of Stamen, and of Pistil.
10. 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.
11. 1v. t. 1 A mode of reckoning time, with regard to the Julian and Gregorian calendars.
12. 1v. t. 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.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.