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A style of dress prevalent at the time of the French Directory, characterized by great extravagance of design and imitating the Greek and Roman costumes.

Having two columns in front; -- said of a temple, portico, or the like. Distyle in antis, having columns between two antæ. See Anta.

A dodecastyle portico, or building.

See Droil. [Obs.] Spenser.

A liquid hydrocarbon, C20H38, of the acetylene series, obtained from brown coal.

The basal substance of the cell nucleus; a hyaline or granular substance, more or less fluid during life, in which the other parts of the nucleus are imbedded.

A fold of the endoderm, which projects into the blood cavity of ascidians. See Tunicata.

To style; to name. [Obs.]

A projection on the inner side of the distal end of the numerus; the internal condyle.

A massive piece of stone or wood laid immediately on the abacus of the capital of a column or pillar; -- now called architrave.

e called olefiant gas. Called also ethene, elayl, and formerly, bicarbureted hydrogen. Ethylene series (Chem.), the series if unsaturated hydrocarbons of which ethylene is the type, and represented by the general formula CnH2n.

See Intercolumnlation.

To ail. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A little tile of glazed earthenware. [Obs.] "The substance of galletyle." Bacon.

g from the roof gutter of a building, often carved grotesquely. [Written also gargle, gargyle, and gurgoyle.]

See Gargoyle.

The process of removing moisture from the blast of an iron blast furnace by reducing its temperature so far that it will not remain suspended as vapor in the blast current, but will be deposited as snow in the cooling apparatus. The resultant uniformly dehydrated blast effects great economy in fuel consumption, and pro…

See Gargoyle.

To guile. [Obs.] Spenser.

Fermented wort used for making vinegar. Gyle tan (Brewing), a large vat in which wort ferments.