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Of or pertaining to styloid process and the tongue.

A stylographic pen.

Of or pertaining to stylography; used in stylography; as, stylographic tablets.

Same as Stylographic, 1. -- Sty`lo*graph"ic*al*ly, adv.

A mode of writing or tracing lines by means of a style on cards or tablets.

A segment in the hyoidean arch between the epihyal and tympanohyal.

Of or pertaining to the styloid process and the hyoid bone.

Styliform; as, the styloid process.

Of or pertaining to the styloid and mastoid processes of the temporal bone.

Of or pertaining to the styloid process and the maxilla.

An instrument for measuring columns.

Same as Stylommatophora.

A division of Pulmonata in which the eyes are situated at the tips of the tentacles. It includes the common land snails and slugs. See Illust. under Snail.

Of or pertaining to Stylommatophora.

An expansion at the base of the style, as in umbelliferous plants.

A genus of minute insects parasitic, in their larval state, on bees and wasps. It is the typical genus of the group Strepsiptera, formerly considered a distinct order, but now generally referred to the Coleoptera. See Strepsiptera.

An instrument for writing. See Style, n., 1. That needle-shaped part at the tip of the playing arm of phonograph which sits in the groove of a phonograph record while it is turning, to detect the undulations in the phonograph groove and convert them into vibrations which are transmitted to a system (since 1920 electron…

To bring into the position of, or impede by, a stymie.

A salt of styphnic acid.

ine astringent acid, (NO2)3.C6H.(OH)2, obtained by the action of nitric acid on resorcin. Styphnic acid resembles picric acid, but is not bitter. It acts like a strong dibasic acid, having a series of well defined salts.