Word Meanings - BOSWELLISM - Book Publishers vocabulary database
The style of Boswell.
Related words: (words related to BOSWELLISM)
- 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.