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instrument of conveyance or communication; as, matter is the vehicle of energy. A simple style forms the best vehicle of thought to a popular assembly. Wirt.

y of success; as, it is rash to venture upon such a project. "When I venture at the comic style." Waller.

iness; verbiage. The worst fault, by far, is the extreme diffuseness and verbosity of his style. Jeffrey.

Of or pertaining to Virgil, the Roman poet; resembling the style of Virgil. [Spelt also Vergilian.] The rich Virgilian rustic measure Of Lari Maxume. Tennyson.

bstance or qualities of; to impair; to contaminate; to spoil; as, exaggeration vitiates a style of writing; sewer gas vitiates the air. A will vitiated and growth out of love with the truth disposes the understanding to error and delusion. South. Without care it may be used to vitiate our minds. Burke. This undistingui…

The pygostyle.

Of, pertaining to, or resembling the style of, Richard Wagner, the German musical composer.

Articles of merchandise; the sum of articles of a particular kind or class; style or class of manufactures; especially, in the plural, goods; commodities; merchandise. "Retails his wares at wakes." Shak. "To chaffer with them and eke to sell them their ware." Chaucer. It the people of the land bring ware or any victual…

verb be, in the indicative mood, imperfect tense; -- now used only in solemn or poetical style. See Was.

Manner; method; mode; fashion; style; as, the way of expressing one's ideas.

Wanting in point or vigor of expression; as, a weak sentence; a weak style.

The thing worn; style of dress; the fashion. Motley wear. Shak. Wear and tear, the loss by wearing, as of machinery in use; the loss or injury to which anything is subjected by use, accident, etc.

tanding. It employs a classical or academic diction, and a more condensed and sententious style than Mandarin, and differs also in the doubling and arrangement of words.

om were, with the ending -t, after the analogy of wast. Now used only in solemn or poetic style.

The quality or state of being winning. "Winningness in style." J. Morley.

The act or manner of expressing in words; style of expression; phrasing. It is believed this wording was above his known style. Milton.

-to-hand combat between two unarmed contestants who seek to throw each other. The various styles of wrestling differ in their definition of a fall and in the governing rules. In Greco-Roman wrestling, tripping and taking hold of the legs are forbidden, and a fall is gained (that is, the bout is won), by the contestant…

author of the passages of the Old Testament, esp. those of the Hexateuch, in which God is styled Yahweh, or Jehovah; the author of the Yahwistic, or Jehovistic, Prophetic Document (J); also, the document itself.

or process of engraving or etching on zinc, in which the design is left in relief in the style of a wood cut, the rest of the ground being eaten away by acid.

Resemblance to Zoilus in style or manner; carping criticism; detraction. Bring candid eyes the perusal of men's works, and let not Zoilism or detraction blast well-intended labors. Sir T. Browne.