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In a gay, showy, and sparkling style.

reat brighness, whether in a literal or figurative sense. With many readers brilliancy of style passes for affluence of thought. Longfellow.

s the bristles of an angry hog; -- sometimes with up. Now for the bare-picked bone of majesty Doth dogged war bristle his angry crest. Shak. Boy, bristle thy courage up. Shak.

Of or pertaining to Great Britain; British; as, her Britannic Majesty.

Foggy; misty.

Rough and prompt in manner; blunt; abrupt; hluff; as, a brusque man; a brusque style.

To make brutal; beasty; unfeeling; or inhuman.

fluid displaced. Such are buoyancies or displacements of the different classes of her majesty's ships. Eng. Cyc.

The manner or style of execution of an engraver; as, a soft burin; a brilliant burin.

A ludicrous imitation; a caricature; a travesty; a gross perversion. Who is it that admires, and from the heart is attached to, national representative assemblies, but must turn with horror and disgust from such a profane burlesque and abominable perversion of that sacred institute Burke.

Having a large, strong, or gross body; stout; lusty; -- now used chiefly of human beings, but formerly of animals, in the sense of stately or beautiful, and of inanimate things that were huge and bulky. "Burly sacks." Drayton. In his latter days, with overliberal diet, [he was] somewhat corpulent and burly. Sir T. More…

Pertaining to, or in the style of, Lord Byron. With despair and Byronic misanthropy. Thackeray

d writers (Zonaras, Procopius, etc.) who lived in the Byzantine empire. P. Cyc. Byzantine style (Arch.), a style of architecture developed in the Byzantine empire.

A stone of convex form, highly polished, but not faceted; also, the style of cutting itself. Such stones are said to be cut en cabochon.

Relating to, or in the style of, calcography.

as a drawing, by rubbing the back of it with red or black chalk, and then passing a blunt style or needle over the lines, so as to leave a tracing on the paper or other thing against which it is laid or held. [Writting also calque]

To waste away, grow rusty, or be oxidized, as a mineral. [Obs.] Silvering will sully and canker more than gliding. Bacom.

A style of interweaving giving to fabrics a channeled or fluted effect; also, a fabric woven so as to have this effect; a rep.

In a melodious, flowing style; in a singing style, as opposed to bravura, recitativo, or parlando.

An instrumental piece in the madrigal style.