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Ostentatious; likely to attract attention; gaudy; as, a loud style of dress; loud colors. [Slang]

Of, pertaining to, or resembling, the art or style of the times of Louis XIV. of France; as, Louis quatorze architecture.

a low and vulgar condition of life; mean dishonorable; contemptible; as, low-lived dishonesty.

The herb moonwort or "honesty".

r their beauty blazed the lurid flame. Thomson. Wrapped in drifts of lurid smoke On the misty river tide. Tennyson.

Full of juice or succulence. Tennyson. How lush and lusty the grass looks! how green! Shak.

Strong; lusty. [Obs.] " Lustful health." Sackville.

Lusty; vigorous. [Obs.]

State of being lusty; vigor of body. " Full of lustihood." Tennyson.

In a lusty or vigorous manner.

State of being lusty; vigor; strength.

Speaking pompously; using swelling discourse; bombastic; tumid in style; grandiloquent. -- Mag*nil"o*quent*ly, adv.

ic of, a virgin; as, maiden innocence. "Amid the maiden throng." Addison. Have you no modesty, no maiden shame Shak.

The quality of being maidenly; the behavior that becomes a maid; modesty; gentleness.

Possessing or exhibiting majesty; of august dignity, stateliness, or imposing grandeur; lofty; noble; grand. "The majestic world." Shak. "Tethys'grave majestic pace." Milton. The least portions must be of the epic kind; all must be grave, majestic, and sublime. Dryden .

Majusculæ. Majuscule writing, writing composed wholly of capital letters, especially the style which prevailed in Europe from the third to the sixth century.

o, or that which, malaxates; esp., a machine for grinding, kneading, or stirring into a pasty or doughy mass. [R.]

oring paper being infolded with thin sheets of plain paper upon which the marks made by a stylus or a type-writer are transferred.

Mode of action; way of performing or effecting anything; method; style; form; fashion. The nations which thou hast removed, and placed in the cities of Samaria, know not the manner of the God of the land. 2 Kings xvii. 26. The temptations of prosperity insinuate themselves after a gentle, but very powerful,manner. Atte…

Affected with mannerism; marked by excess of some characteristic peculiarity. His style is in some degree mannered and confined. Hazlitt.