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on of one's disposition, character, ability, etc. -- To tread a measure, to dance in the style so called. See 9 (a). Say to her, we have measured many miles To tread a measure with her on this grass. Shak.

coarse, rough, or harsh; subdued; soft; rich; delicate; -- said of sound, color, flavor, style, etc. "The mellow horn." Wordsworth. "The mellow-tasted Burgundy." Thomson. The tender flush whose mellow stain imbues Heaven with all freaks of light. Percival.

experience and memory; an account of transactions or events (usually written in familiar style) as they are remembered by the writer. See History, 2.

the province we include within the range of science, the province we exclude may be fitly styled the metempirical. G. H. Lewes.

e in the predicate; as, "Vengeance is mine; I will repay." Rom. xii. 19. Also, in the old style, used attributively, instead of my, before a noun beginning with a vowel. I kept myself from mine iniquity. Ps. xviii. 23.

Of the size and style of minuscules; written in minuscules. These minuscule letters are cursive forms of the earlier uncials. I. Taylor (The Alphabet).

Ladyship, a style of address; -- with the personal pronoun. [Obs.] Massinger.

Manner of doing or being; method; form; fashion; custom; way; style; as, the mode of speaking; the mode of dressing. The duty of itself being resolved on, the mode of doing it may easily be found. Jer. Taylor. A table richly spread in regal mode. Milton.

The act of rendering modern in style; the act or process of causing to conform to modern of thinking or acting.

ashion, especially of the fashionable dress of ladies; a woman who gives direction to the style or mode of dress.

ch the melody is confined to one part, instead of being shared by all the parts as in the style called polyphonic.

A Linnæan order of plants, including those which have only one style or stigma.

Of or pertaining to Monogynia; having only one style or stigma.

Manner; style; mode; logical form; musical style; manner of action or being. See Mode which is the preferable form).

Of or pertaining to Morocco or the Moors; in the style of the Moors. Moorish architecture, the style developed by the Moors in the later Middle Ages, esp. in Spain, in which the arch had the form of a horseshoe, and the ornamentation admitted no representation of animal life. It has many points of resemblance to the Ar…

Of or pertaining to, or in the manner or style of, the Moors; Moorish. -- n.

Of or pertaining to the style of work called mosaic; formed by uniting pieces of different colors; variegated; tessellated; also, composed of various materials or ingredients. A very beautiful mosaic pavement. Addison. Florentine mosaic. See under Florentine. -- Mosaic gold. (a) See Ormolu. -- (b) Stannic sulphide, S…

A composition adapted to sacred words in the elaborate polyphonic church style; an anthem.

nt or various parts; heterogeneously made or mixed up; discordantly composite; as, motley style. Byron.

Manner or style of moving; as, a slow, or quick, or sudden, movement.