Word Meanings - STILTY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Unreasonably elevated; pompous; stilted; as, a stilty style.

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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
• POMPOUS
  1. Displaying pomp; stately; showy with grandeur; magnificent; as, a pompous procession. 2. Ostentatious; pretentious; boastful; vainlorious; as, pompous manners; a pompous style. "Pompous in high presumption." Chaucer. he pompous vanity of the
• ELEVATOR
  One who, or that which, raises or lifts up anything; as: A mechanical contrivance, usually an endless belt or chain with a series of scoops or buckets, for transferring grain to an upper loft for storage. A cage or platform and the hoisting
• ELEVATED
  Uplifted; high; lofty; also, animated; noble; as, elevated thoughts. Elevated railway, one in which the track is raised considerably above the ground, especially a city railway above the line of street travel.
• STILTBIRD
  See 3
• STILTON CHEESE; STILTON
  A peculiarly flavored unpressed cheese made from milk with cream added; -- so called from the village or parish of Stilton, England, where it was originally made. It is very rich in fat. Thus, in the outset he was gastronomic; discussed the dinner
• ELEVATORY
  Tending to raise, or having power to elevate; as, elevatory forces.
• ELEVATION
  The distance of a celestial object above the horizon, or the arc of a vertical circle intercepted between it and the horizon; altitude; as, the elevation of the pole, or of a star. (more info) 1. The act of raising from a lower place, condition,
• STILTED
  Elevated as if on stilts; hence, pompous; bombastic; as, a stilted style; stilted declamation. Stilted arch , an arch in which the springing line is some distance above the impost, the space between being occupied by a vertical member, molded or
• ELEVATEDNESS
  The quality of being elevated.
• 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.,
• ELEVATE
  Elevated; raised aloft. Milton.
• STILT
  Any species of limicoline birds belonging to Himantopus and allied genera, in which the legs are remarkably long and slender. Called also longshanks, stiltbird, stilt plover, and lawyer. Note: The American species is well known. The European and
• STILTIFY
  To raise upon stilts, or as upon stilts; to stilt.
• STILTY
  Unreasonably elevated; pompous; stilted; as, a stilty style.
• 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
• RELEVATION
  A raising or lifting up.