stylasteridæ

pl. [Mod. Lat. stylaster: Lat. fem. pl. adj. suff. -idœ.] The skeleton is a Zool. & Palæont .: A family of Hydrocoralline, with several genera, living principally at considerable depths in the warmer seas. branched calcareous structure, with cup-like depres. sions, each with a central chamber, surrounded by secondary chambers, separated from each other by short partitions. The colony consists of two sets of zooids, the perfect ones inhabiting the central chambers, while the smaller ones are occupied by imperfect zõoids, resembling tentacles in appear ance. The cavities of the zooids communicate by canals in the skeleton, and the reproductive organs are in the form of fixed sporosacs, developed within IMG:content-0462.png:[blocks in formation] 2200, 2300 3. That the several years of our Lord 1800, 1900, 2100, shall not be deemed bi extile or and that the years of our Lord shall for the future be esteemed years I. Ordinary Language: *1. A piece of iron or other material pointed at one end, used by the ancients for writing by scratching on wax-tablets. The other end was made blunt and smooth, and was used to make erasures. Hence, 2. A hard point for tracing, in manifold writing. 3. A pointed tool used in graving. 4. Manner of writing with regard to language; the peculiar manner in which a person expre es his ideas or conceptions; the particular mode or form of expre ing ideas in language which distinguishes one writer or speaker from another; the a sty. "Here you sty me In this hard rock, while you do keep from me The rest of the Island." Shakesp.: Tempest , i. 2.