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Of or pertaining to the style of a dial. [Written also stylar.]

A pin set on the face of a dial, to cast a shadow; a style. See Style. Moxon.

Helping the stomach; stomachic; cordial.

Strengthening to the stomach; exciting the action of the stomach; stomachal; cordial.

ch (Arch.), a form of arch in which the intrados is straight, but with its joints drawn radially, as in a common arch. -- A straight face, one giving no evidence of merriment or other emotion. -- A straight line. "That which lies evenly between its extreme points." Euclid. "The shortest line between two points." Chau…

The pin, or gnomon, of a dial, the shadow of which indicates the hour. See Gnomon. (f) Etym: [Probably fr. Gr. (Bot.)

A right line on which the style, or gnomon, of a dial is erected; being the common section of the face of the dial and a plane perpendicular to it passing through the style. [Written also substile.] Hutton.

ry. I arrest thee at the suit of Count Orsino. Shak. In England the several suits, or remedial instruments of justice, are distinguished into three kinds -- actions personal, real, and mixed. Blackstone.

Home-made wines, cordials, metheglin, etc.

t authors on a common topic; -- so called from the appellation given to the philosophical dialogue by the Greeks.

ule, a closed sac of synovial membrane situated between the articular surfaces at diarthrodial joints. -- Synovial fluid, synovia. -- Synovial membrane, the dense and very smooth connective tissue membrane which secretes synovia and surrounds synovial capsules and other synovial cavities.

tion of which by change of speed moves a pointer which indicates the speed on a graduated dial.

One of the radial partitions which separate the internal cavities of certain medusæ.

ase of some portion of the Old Testament Scriptures in the Chaldee or Aramaic language or dialect.

ree surd mutes k, p, t; -- so called in relation to their respective middle letters, or medials, g, b, d, and their aspirates, x, f, th. The term is also applied to the corresponding letters and articulate elements in other languages.

an, or Aryan, family, and embracing the High German, Low German, Gothic, and Scandinavian dialects and languages. -- Teutonic order, a military religious order of knights, established toward the close of the twelfth century, in imitation of the Templars and Hospitalers, and composed chiefly of Teutons, or Germans. The…

A fossil rhinoceros with a vertical bony medial septum supporting the nose; the hairy rhinoceros.

high water is termed the priming of the tide. See Lag of the tide, under 2d Lag. -- Tide dial, a dial to exhibit the state of the tides at any time. -- Tide gate. (a) An opening through which water may flow freely when the tide sets in one direction, but which closes automatically and prevents the water from flowing…

rly used as an ingredient in Venice treacle, or theriac. -- Treacle water, a compound cordial prepared in different ways from a variety of ingredients, as hartshorn, roots of various plants, flowers, juices of plants, wines, etc., distilled or digested with Venice treacle. It was formerly regarded as a medicine of gre…

ves, by which several pieces, as the jaws of a chuck, can be brought together or spread radially.