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Manner of expression; peculiarity of diction; style. Most completely national in his . . . phraseology. I. Taylor.

Method of expression; association of words.

r countenance, with respect to the temper of the mind; particular configuration, cast, or expression of countenance, as denoting character.

in from the writings of another; to appropriate without due acknowledgement (the ideas or expressions of another).

One who purloins another's expressions or ideas, and offers them as his own; a plagiarist. Dryden.

Audible expression of sorrow; lamentation; complaint; hence, a mournful song; a lament. Chaucer."The Psalmist's mournful plaint." Wordsworth.

A mark or expression of applause; praise bestowed. Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng. Longfellow.

To use in a droll manner; to give a droll expression or application to; as, to play upon words.

The system of equations required for the complete expression of the relations which exist between a set of quantities. Brande & C.

interpreting ideas by the faculty of imagination; the art of idealizing in thought and in expression. For poetry is the blossom and the fragrance of all human knowledge, human thoughts, human passions, emotions, language. Coleridge.

Characterized by sharpness, directness, or pithiness of expression; terse; epigrammatic; especially, directed to a particular person or thing. His moral pleases, not his pointed wit. Pope. Pointed arch (Arch.), an arch with a pointed crown. -- Pointed style (Arch.), a name given to that style of architecture in which…

An expression composed of two or more terms, connected by the signs plus or minus; as, a2 - 2ab + b2.

Pshaw! pish! nonsense! -- an expression of scorn, dislike, or contempt.

Worthy of pity or sympathy; -- used also sometimes as a term of endearment, or as an expression of modesty, and sometimes as a word of contempt. And for mine own poor part, Look you, I'll go pray. Shak. Poor, little, pretty, fluttering thing. Prior.

onism. In a strict sense the term post-impressionism is used to denote the effort at self-expression, rather than representation, shown in the work of Cézanne, Matisse, etc.; but it is more broadly used to include cubism, the theory or practice of a movement in both painting and sculpture which lays stress upon volume…

ned or comprised in a proverb; used as a proverb; hence, commonly known; as, a proverbial expression; his meanness was proverbial. In case of excesses, I take the German proverbial cure, by a hair of the same beast, to be the worst. Sir W. Temple.

Pish! pooch! -- an exclamation used as an expression of contempt, disdain, dislike, etc. [Written also psha.]

That which is puerile or childish; especially, an expression which is flat, insipid, or silly.

An exaggerated or empty expression of praise, especially one in a public journal. Puff adder. (Zoöl.) (a) Any South African viper belonging to Clotho and allied genera. They are exceedingly venomous, and have the power of greatly distending their bodies when irritated. The common puff adder (Vipera, or Clotho, arietans…

A play on words which have the same sound but different meanings; an expression in which two different applications of a word present an odd or ludicrous idea; a kind of quibble or equivocation. Addison. A better put on this word was made on the Beggar's Opera, which, it was said, made Gay rich, and Rich gay. Walpole.…