a word of various significations, originally deduced from stylos, a kind of bodkin, wherewith the ancients wrote on plates of lead, or on wax, &c., and which is still used to write on ivory-leaves, and paper prepared for that purpose, &c.

dialling, denotes the gnomon or cock of a dial, raised on the plane thereof, to project a shadow. See Dialling.

botany. See Botany, p. 637.

matters of language, a particular manner of expressing one's thoughts agreeably to the rules of syntax; or, as F. Buffon more accurately defines it, the manner wherein the words, constructed according to the laws of syntax, are arranged among themselves, suitably to the genius of the language. See Composition.

jurisprudence, the particular form or manner of proceeding in each court of jurisdiction, agreeable to the rules and orders established therein; thus we say the style of the court of Rome, of Chancery, of Parliament, of the Privy council, &c.

Old-Style, the Julian manner of computing time, as the New Style is the Gregorian method of computation. See Astronomy, p. 490.