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To solve, to clear up; as, to soyl all other texts. [Obs.] Tyndate.

A joint of the backbone; a vertebra.

Without stop or delay. Mir. for Mag.

Hence, anything resembling the ancient style in shape or use. Specifically: --

Any small, more or less rigid, bristlelike organ; as, the caudal stylets of certain insects; the ventral stylets of certain Infusoria.

A right line on which the style, or gnomon, of a dial is erected; being the common section of the face of the dial and a plane perpendicular to it passing through the style. [Written also substile.] Hutton.

To surname. [R.]

A young herring (Clupea harengus). [Also written sile.] But our folk call them syle, and nought but syle, And when they're grown, why then we call them herring. J. Ingelow.

Having united cotyledonous.

Having two or more digits wholly or partly united. See Syndactylism.

Any bird having syndactilous feet.

A systyle temple or other edifice.

Tetradactylous.

A hypothetical hydrocarbon, C4H8, analogous to trimethylene, and regarded as the base of well-known series or derivatives.

A tetrastyle building.

Butylene; -- so called from the four carbon atoms in the molecule.

Sometimes, but less properly, tolylene.

A hydrocarbon radical, C6H4.(CH2)2, regarded as characteristic of certain toluene derivatives.

A grandfather's grandfather. [Obs.] Writ of tresayle (O. Eng. Law), a writ which lay for a man claiming as heir to his grandfather's grandfather, to recover lands of which he had been deprived by an abatement happening on the ancestor's death. Mozley & W.

Having three fingers or toes, or composed of three movable parts attached to a common base.