a brand or impression with a hot iron; a mark of infamy. See STIGMATIZING.

in Botany, the summit or top of the style, accounted by the sexualists the female organ of generation in plants, which receives the fecundating dust of the tops of the stamens, and transmits its vapour or effluvia through the style into the heart of the seed-bud, for the purpose of impregnating the seeds.