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The make, form, or outward appearance of a person; the whole turn or style of the body; esp., good appearance. What needeth it his feature to descrive Chaucer. Cheated of feature by dissembling nature. Shak.

Having the quality of mitigating or curing fever. Boyle.

ing bearing, producing, yielding; as, auriferous, yielding gold; chyliferous, producing chyle.

Partaking of iron; containing particles of iron. Boyle.

A style of low, scurrilous, obscene poetry originating in fescennia.

The style of a dial. [Obs.]

1. To repair; to prepare; to put in order. [Prov. Eng.] Carlyle.

ior on condition of feudal service; the tenant of a feud or fief. The grantee . . . was styled the feudatory or vassal. Blackstone. [He] had for feudatories great princes. J. H. Newman.

g the shape of a thread or filament; as, the filiform papillæ of the tongue; a filiform style or peduncle. See Illust. of AntennÆ.

y fine; overnice; unduly particular; fastidious. "Finical taste." Wordsworth. The gross style consists in giving no detail, the finical in giving nothing else. Hazlitt.

The result of completed labor, as on the surface of an object; manner or style of finishing; as, a rough, dead, or glossy finish given to cloth, stone, metal, etc.

The name, title, or style, under which a company transacts business; a partnership of two or more persons; a commercial house; as, the firm of Hope & Co.

Fixedness. [Obs.] Boyle.

To importune; to demand fiercely or with passion. [Archaic] Carcyle.

Importunity; urgent demand. [Archaic] Carlyle.

, as in the tracery of windows, etc.; -- said of the later (15th century) French Gothic style.

Free from flaws. Boyle.

Destitute of flesh; lean. Carlyle.

The act or flying; a passing through the air by the help of wings; volitation; mode or style of flying. Like the night owl's lazy flight. Shak.

Inundation. [R.] Carlyle.