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The slender styles of the pistillate flowers of maize; also called silk.

A figure of speech; an ornament of style.

Highly embellished with figurative language; florid; as, a flowery style. Milton. The flowery kingdom, China.

A style of printing calico, paper hangings, etc., in which the colors are in bands and graduated into each other. Ure.

inary exertion; hurried; strained; produced by unnatural effort or pressure; as, a forced style; a forced laugh. Forced draught. See under Draught. -- Forced march (Mil.), a march of one or more days made with all possible speed. -- For"ced*ly, adv. -- For"ced*ness, n.

Plymouth, Massachusetts (1620). On account of a mistake in reckoning the change from Old Style to New Style, it has generally been celebrated on the 22d.

rm of his visage was changed. Dan. iii. 19. And woven close close, both matter, form, and style. Milton.

The act, process, or style of putting together a frame, or of constructing anything; a frame; that which frames.

ing in manner; dull and unanimated; stiff and formal; as, a frigid constitution; a frigid style; a frigid look or manner; frigid obedience or service.

in the gugue style, but not strictly like a fugue. -- n.

An inflated style of writing; a kind of writing in which high- sounding words are used,' above the dignity of the thoughts or subject; bombast. Claudius . . . has run his description into the most wretched fustian. Addison.

ed to the stem to opposite the lifting action of the forestays. Gammoning fashion, in the style of gammoning lashing, that is, having the turns of rope crossed. -- Gammoning hole (Naut.), a hole cut through the knee of the head of a vessel for the purpose of gammoning the bowsprit.

A style of painting, sculpture, or other imitative art, which illustrates everyday life and manners.

ral composition or structure; manner in which the parts of a thing are combined; make-up; style of dress, etc. [Colloq.] H. Kingsley.

The style or pin, which by its shadow, shows the hour of the day. It is usually set parallel to the earth's axis.

An affected elegance or euphuism of style, for which the Spanish poet Gongora y Argote (1561-1627), among others of his time, was noted.

A blastostyle.

A capsule developed on certain hydroids (Thecaphora), inclosing the blastostyle upon which the medusoid buds or gonophores are developed; -- called also gonangium, and teleophore. See Hydroidea, and Illust. of Campanularian.

Of or pertaining to a style of architecture with pointed arches, steep roofs, windows large in proportion to the wall spaces, and, generally, great height in proportion to the other dimensions -- prevalent in Western Europe from about 1200 to 1475 a. d. See Illust. of Abacus, and Capital.

Conformity to the Gothic style of architecture.