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Having styles of two or more distinct forms or lengths. Darwin.

The condition of being heterostyled.

A hexastyle portico or temple.

A pen, house, or inclosure, for hogs.

The formation of homologous tissues.

Having only one form of pistils; -- said of the flowers of some plants. Darwin.

rableness; dignity; propriety; suitableness; decency. [Obs.] Chaucer. She derives her honesty and achieves her goodness. Shak.

ained from certain derivatives of cinnamic acid and closely related to quinoline and carbostyril.

Having the mandible suspended by the hyomandibular, or upper part of the hyoid arch, as in fishes, instead of directly articulated with the skull as in mammals; -- said of the skull.

Downward convexity, or convexity of the inferior surface.

Resting upon columns; constructed by means of columns; -- especially applied to the great hall at Karnak.

Want of modesty, delicacy, or decent reserve; indecency. "A piece of immodesty." Pope.

To style. [Obs.] Crashaw.

A plastic operation for making a new lip, or for replacing a lost tissue of a lip.

See Leze majesty.

Any crime committed against the sovereign power.

healthful; able of body. Neither would their old men, so many as were yet vigorous and lusty, be left at home. Milton.

applied to the rank and dignity of sovereigns. The Lord reigneth; he is clothed with majesty. Ps. xciii. 1. No sovereign has ever represented the majesty of great state with more dignity and grace. Macaulay.

Full of mast; abounding in acorns, etc.

The process of restoring a cheek which has been destroyed wholly or in part.