style (2), stile (1)

[Lat. stylus, from Greek stylos a pillar, a post.] 1. Bot . The part of a pistil intermediate in position between the germen or ovary below and the stigma above. It is considered to be an elongation of the ovary, and morphologically the upper narrow part of a carpellary leaf supporting the stigma. It is not more e ential to a pistil than a petiole is to a leaf, and in fact is often absent. It may be taper or thick, is generally terete, but may be angular, or thin, flat, and colored. Sometimes it is continuous with, and at others articulated with the ovary; as a rule it arises from the apex, but occa Rhetoric, lect. 10. 5. Mode of presentation, especially in music or any of the fine arts; characteristic or peculiar mode of developing an idea or accomplishing a result; the peculiar manner in which an artist expre es his ideas; it is exhibited in his choice of forms and mode of treating them, and is determined in different ways, according to the changes of thought at different times and stages of its development. Besides the individual style, there is also a national style; as, the Egyptian, the Grecian styles of architecture. Each of the various branches of art has its peculiar style; as, the epic, lyric, and dramatic styles of poetry; the historical and the landscape styles of painting, . "In quiet poems of simple narrative, where there are no speakers or scenery to set off the words, the forcible style of the drama might interfere with the unity of the poem, by attracting to the words the interest that should be concentrated on the narrative; and here a simple style may be desirable. Thus poetic style may be roughly divided into (1) the elevated, (2) the graceful, (3) the forcible, (4) the simple." - Abbott & Seeley: English Le ons for English People , 345. 6. The peculiar manner or mode of action characteristic of a performer of an art; as, the style of rowing of an oarsman, a batsman's style in cricket, a bad style of walking, . 7. External manner or fashion. Manner deemed elegant and appropriate in social demeanor; fashion; as, An entertainment is given in style . 8. Phrase of addre or appellation; formal or official designation; title. II. Technically : 1. Arch .: A particular character as to the general artistic idea prevailing a building; as, the Gothic or Norman styles . [ARCHITECTURE.] 2. Chron .: The method of reckoning time with reference to the Julian and Greg or i an calendars, Old Style being founded on the former and New Style on the latter. The Julian Calendar (q. v.) prevailed in Europe to A. D. 1582. Pope Gregory XIII. published the Greg or i an Calendar [CALENDAR, II. 3], enacting that ten days should be deducted from the year 1582 by calling the day which by the Julian Calendar would have been Oct. 5, Oct. 15, 1582. The alteration took place that same day in Spain, Portugal, and part of Italy. In France and Lorraine the change was made on Dec. 10 [20]; in Holland, Brabant, Flanders, Artois, and Hainault on Dec. 15 [25] of the same year. In Switzerland the Roman Catholics adopted the new style in 1583 or 1584, as did those of Germany in 1584. The Danes did so in 1582, the Poles in 1586, the Hungarians in 1587, the German Protestant city of Marburg in Feb., 1682, the States of Utrecht on Dec. 1 chin, bench; go, gem; thin, this; panulacese, ., it is densely covered with hairs called collectors, which in Lobelese become an indusium (q. v.). Sometimes styles so completely cohere that they look like one style with a plurality of stigmas. In fully describing the styles of a plant mention should be made of their number, length, figure, surface, direction, and proportion. 2. Dialing: The gnomon of a sun-dial. *style (3), s. [STILE.] style, v. t. [STYLE (1), 8.] To entitle, to name, to designate, to denominate. "In this tract of Gloucestershire (where to this day many places are styled vineyards)."- Drayton : Polyolbion, s. 14. (Note.)