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Word Meanings - BOSWELLISM - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The style of Boswell.

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  • STYLET
    A small poniard; a stiletto. An instrument for examining wounds and fistulas, and for passing setons, and the like; a probe, -- called also specillum. A stiff wire, inserted in catheters or other tubular instruments to maintain their shape
  • BOSWELLISM
    The style of Boswell.
  • STYLE
    The pin, or gnomon, of a dial, the shadow of which indicates (more info) style or writing instrument, manner or writing, mode of expression; probably for stiglus, meaning, a pricking instrument, and akin to E. stick. See Stick, v. t.,
  • BOSWELLIAN
    Relating to, or characteristic of, Boswell, the biographer of Dr. Johnson.
  • ARAEOSTYLE
    See INTERCOLUMNIATION
  • CYCLOSTYLE
    A contrivance for producing manifold copies of writing or drawing. The writing or drawing is done with a style carrying a small wheel at the end which makes minute punctures in the paper, thus converting it into a stencil. Copies are transferred
  • SURSTYLE
    To surname.
  • AMPHIPROSTYLE
    Doubly prostyle; having columns at each end, but not at the sides. -- n.
  • INSTYLE
    To style. Crashaw.
  • ENDOSTYLE
    A fold of the endoderm, which projects into the blood cavity of ascidians. See Tunicata.
  • DODECASTYLE
    Having twelve columns in front. -- n.
  • POLYSTYLE
    Having many columns; -- said of a building, especially of an interior part or court; as, a polystyle hall. -- n.
  • CYRTOSTYLE
    A circular projecting portion.
  • SUBSTYLE
    A right line on which the style, or gnomon, of a dial is erected; being the common section of the face of the dial and a plane
  • OCTASTYLE
    See OCTOSTYLE
  • PENTASTYLE
    Having five columns in front; -- said of a temple or portico in classical architecture. -- n.
  • DECASTYLE
    Having ten columns in front; -- said of a portico, temple, etc. -- n.
  • HETEROSTYLED
    Having styles of two or more distinct forms or lengths. Darwin.
  • TETRASTYLE
    Having four columns in front; -- said of a temple, portico, or colonnade. -- n.
  • AREOSTYLE
    See ARæOSTYLE
  • EPISTYLE
    A massive piece of stone or wood laid immediately on the abacus of the capital of a column or pillar; -- now called architrave.
  • PYGOSTYLE
    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 vertebræ, and supports the uropigium.

 

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