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n action; marked with propriety and ease; graceful; becoming; appropriate; as, a handsome style, etc. Easiness and handsome address in writing. Felton.

Carefully; in shipshape style.

Not easy or agreeable to the taste; stiff; rigid; ungraceful; repelling; as, a hard style. Figures harder than even the marble itself. Dryden.

Hasty. [Obs.] Chaucer. -- Has"tif*ly, adv. [Obs.]

The quality or state of being hasty; haste; precipitation; rashness; quickness of temper.

uggish; inactive; or lifeless, dull, inanimate, stupid; as, a heavy gait, looks, manners, style, and the like; a heavy writer or book. Whilst the heavy plowman snores. Shak. Of a heavy, dull, degenerate mind. Dryden. Neither [is] his ear heavy, that it can not hear. Is. lix. 1.

d Parthenon at Athens, because measuring 100 Greek feet, probably in the width across the stylobate.

An order of hexapod insects having a jointed proboscis, including four sharp stylets (mandibles and maxillæ), for piercing. In many of the species (Heteroptera) the front wings are partially coriaceous, and different from the others.

Serving to arrest hemorrhage; styptic.

Designating a light and elegant style developed in England under George III., chiefly by Messrs. A.Heppelwhite & Co.

A thin silk or woolen goods, for women's dresses, woven in various styles and colors.

rt, art which deals with lofty and dignified subjects and is characterized by an elevated style avoiding all meretricious display. -- High bailiff, the chief bailiff. -- High Church, and Low Church, two ecclesiastical parties in the Church of England and the Protestant Episcopal Church. The high- churchmen emphasize…

Musty; moldy; stale. [Obs.] Shak.

Moldy; musty. [Obs.] Granmer.

Moldy; mossy; musty. [Obs.] Knolles.

To move roughly or irregularly; -- said of style in writing. Prior. The hobbling versification, the mean diction. Jeffreys.

A shed for swine; a sty.

A pen or sty for hogs.

Plain in manner or style; not elegant; rude; coarse. "Our homespun English proverb." Dryden. "Our homespun authors." Addison.

Of or pertaining to homoplasty; as, homoplasticorgans; homoplastic forms.