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Having styles of two or more distinct forms or lengths. Darwin.

A hexastyle portico or temple.

Having only one form of pistils; -- said of the flowers of some plants. Darwin.

Resting upon columns; constructed by means of columns; -- especially applied to the great hall at Karnak.

To style. [Obs.] Crashaw.

See Octostyle.

Having eight columns in the front; -- said of a temple or portico. The Parthenon is octostyle, but most large Greek temples are hexastele. See Hexastyle. -- n.

Having five columns in front; -- said of a temple or portico in classical architecture. -- n.

he former sense, it gives name to the larger and inner court of a Roman dwelling, the peristyle. See Colonnade.

g many columns; -- said of a building, especially of an interior part or court; as, a polystyle hall. -- n.

A prostyle portico or building.

A pycnostyle colonnade.

The plate of bone which forms the posterior end of the vertebral column in most birds; the plowshare bone; the vomer. It is formed by the union of a number of the last caudal vertebræ, and supports the uropigium.

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.

To surname. [R.]

A systyle temple or other edifice.

A tetrastyle building.

A styliform process forming the posterior extremity of the vertebral column in some fishes and amphibians.

In church or chapel style; -- said of compositions sung in the old church style, without instrumental accompaniment; as, a mass a capella, i. e., a mass purely vocal.

Having sudden transitions from one subject to another; unconnected. The abrupt style, which hath many breaches. B. Jonson.