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

See Bumboat. Carlyle.

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

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

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.

nsisting of, or accompanied by, immoderate laughter. Cachinnatory buzzes of approval. Carlyle.

es of compounds analogous to the nitrogen compounds called hydrazines. [Written also cacodyle, and kakodyl.]

Troubled with bad digestion. [R.] Carlyle.

A sirupy, nontoxic ptomaine, C5H14N2 (chemically pentamethylene diamine), formed in putrefaction of flesh, etc.

Relating to, or in the style of, calcography.

"The calculation of eclipses." Nichol. The mountain is not so his calculation makes it. Boyle.

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]

Having the petals and stamens adnate to the calyx; -- applied to a subclass of dicotyledonous plants in the system of the French botanist Candolle.

To grow into a canser; to become cancerous. Boyle.

Heated to whiteness; glowing with heat. "A candent vessel." Boyle.

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.

amp this host, we all would sup together. Shak. The capacity of the exhausted cylinder. Boyle.