Stylet (n.) A stiff wire, inserted in catheters or other tubular instruments to maintain their shape and prevent clogging.
Stylet (n.) Any small, more or less rigid, bristlelike organ; as, the caudal stylets of certain insects; the ventral stylets of certain Infusoria.
Styliferous (a.) Bearing one or more styles.
Styliform (a.) Having the form of, or resembling, a style, pin, or pen; styloid.
Stylish (a.) Having style or artistic quality; given to, or fond of, the display of style; highly fashionable; modish; as, a stylish dress, house, manner.
Stylist (n.) One who is a master or a model of style, especially in writing or speaking; a critic of style.
Stylistic (a.) Of or pertaining to style in language.
Stylite (n.) One of a sect of anchorites in the early church, who lived on the tops of pillars for the exercise of their patience; -- called also pillarist and pillar saint.
Stylo- () A combining form used in anatomy to indicate connection with, or relation to, the styloid process of the temporal bone; as, stylohyal, stylomastoid, stylomaxillary.
Stylobate (n.) The uninterrupted and continuous flat band, coping, or pavement upon which the bases of a row of columns are supported. See Sub-base.
Styloglossal (a.) Of or pertaining to styloid process and the tongue.
Stylograph (n.) A stylographic pen.
Stylographic (a.) Of or pertaining to stylography; used in stylography; as, stylographic tablets.
Stylographic (a.) Pertaining to, or used in, stylographic pen; as, stylographic ink.
Stylographical (a.) Same as Stylographic, 1.
Stylography (n.) A mode of writing or tracing lines by means of a style on cards or tablets.
Stylohyal (n.) A segment in the hyoidean arch between the epihyal and tympanohyal.
Stylohyoid (a.) Of or pertaining to the styloid process and the hyoid bone.
Styloid (a.) Styliform; as, the styloid process.
Styloid (a.) Of or pertaining to the styloid process.
Stylomastoid (a.) Of or pertaining to the styloid and mastoid processes of the temporal bone.
Stylomaxillary (a.) Of or pertaining to the styloid process and the maxilla.
Stylometer (n.) An instrument for measuring columns.
Stylommata (n. pl.) Same as Stylommatophora.
Stylommatophora (n. pl.) A division of Pulmonata in which the eyes are situated at the tips of the tentacles. It includes the common land snails and slugs. See Illust. under Snail.
Stylommatophorous (a.) Of or pertaining to Stylommatophora.
Stylopodia (pl. ) of Stylopodium
Stylopodium (n.) An expansion at the base of the style, as in umbelliferous plants.
Stylops (n.) A genus of minute insects parasitic, in their larval state, on bees and wasps. It is the typical genus of the group Strepsiptera, formerly considered a distinct order, but now generally referred to the Coleoptera. See Strepsiptera.
Stylus (n.) An instrument for writing. See Style, n., 1.
Stylus (n.) That needle-shaped part at the tip of the playing arm of phonograph which sits in the groove of a phonograph record while it is turning, to detect the undulations in the phonograph groove and convert them into vibrations which are transmitted to a system (since 1920 electronic) which converts the signal into sound; also called needle. The stylus is frequently composed of metal or diamond.
Stylus (n.) The needle-like device used to cut the grooves which record the sound on the original disc during recording of a phonograph record.
Stylus (n.) A pen-shaped pointing device used to specify the cursor position on a graphics tablet.
Styphnate (n.) A salt of styphnic acid.
Styphnic (a.) Pertaining to, or designating, a yellow crystalline astringent acid, (NO2)3.C6H.(OH)2, obtained by the action of nitric acid on resorcin. Styphnic acid resembles picric acid, but is not bitter. It acts like a strong dibasic acid, having a series of well defined salts.
Styptic (a.) Producing contraction; stopping bleeding; having the quality of restraining hemorrhage when applied to the bleeding part; astringent.
Styptic (n.) A styptic medicine.
Styptical (a.) Styptic; astringent.
Stypticity (n.) The quality or state of being styptic; astringency.
Styracin (n.) A white crystalline tasteless substance extracted from gum storax, and consisting of a salt of cinnamic acid with cinnamic alcohol.
Styrax (n.) A genus of shrubs and trees, mostly American or Asiatic, abounding in resinous and aromatic substances. Styrax officinalis yields storax, and S. Benzoin yields benzoin.
Styrax (n.) Same as Storax.
Styrol (n.) See Styrolene.
Styrolene (n.) An unsaturated hydrocarbon, C8H8, obtained by the distillation of storax, by the decomposition of cinnamic acid, and by the condensation of acetylene, as a fragrant, aromatic, mobile liquid; -- called also phenyl ethylene, vinyl benzene, styrol, styrene, and cinnamene.
Styrone (n.) A white crystalline substance having a sweet taste and a hyacinthlike odor, obtained by the decomposition of styracin; -- properly called cinnamic, / styryl, alcohol.
Styryl (n.) A hypothetical radical found in certain derivatives of styrolene and cinnamic acid; -- called also cinnyl, or cinnamyl.
Stythe (n.) Choke damp.
Stythy (n. & v.) See Stithy.
Styx (n.) The principal river of the lower world, which had to be crossed in passing to the regions of the dead.
Suability (n.) Liability to be sued; the state of being subjected by law to civil process.
Suable (a.) Capable of being sued; subject by law to be called to answer in court.
Suade (v. t.) To persuade.
Suadible (a.) Suasible.
Suage (v. t.) To assuage.
Suant (a.) Spread equally over the surface; uniform; even.
Suasible (a.) Capable of being persuaded; easily persuaded.
Suasion (n.) The act of persuading; persuasion; as, moral suasion.
Suasive (a.) Having power to persuade; persuasive; suasory.
Suasory (a.) Tending to persuade; suasive.
Suave (a.) Sweet; pleasant; delightful; gracious or agreeable in manner; bland.
Suavified (imp. & p. p.) of Suavify
Suavifying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Suavify
Suavify (v. t.) To make affable or suave.
Suaviloquent (a.) Sweetly speaking; using agreeable speech.
Suaviloquy (n.) Sweetness of speech.
Suavity (n.) Sweetness to the taste.
Suavity (n.) The quality of being sweet or pleasing to the mind; agreeableness; softness; pleasantness; gentleness; urbanity; as, suavity of manners; suavity of language, conversation, or address.
Sub- () A prefix signifying under, below, beneath, and hence often, in an inferior position or degree, in an imperfect or partial state, as in subscribe, substruct, subserve, subject, subordinate, subacid, subastringent, subgranular, suborn. Sub- in Latin compounds often becomes sum- before m, sur before r, and regularly becomes suc-, suf-, sug-, and sup- before c, f, g, and p respectively. Before c, p, and t it sometimes takes form sus- (by the dropping of b from a collateral form, subs-).
Sub- () A prefix denoting that the ingredient (of a compound) signified by the term to which it is prefixed,is present in only a small proportion, or less than the normal amount; as, subsulphide, suboxide, etc. Prefixed to the name of a salt it is equivalent to basic; as, subacetate or basic acetate.
Sub (n.) A subordinate; a subaltern.
Subacid (a.) Moderately acid or sour; as, some plants have subacid juices.
Subacid (n.) A substance moderately acid.
Subacrid (a.) Moderalely acrid or harsh.
Subacromial (a.) Situated beneath the acromial process of the scapula.
Subact (v. t.) To reduce; to subdue.
Subaction (n.) The act of reducing to any state, as of mixing two bodies combletely.
Subacute (a.) Moderalely acute.
Subaduncate (a.) Somewhat hooked or curved.
Subadvocate (n.) An under or subordinate advocate.
Subaerial (a.) Beneath the sky; in the open air; specifically (Geol.), taking place on the earth's surface, as opposed to subaqueous.
Subagency (n.) A subordinate agency.
Subagent (n.) A person employed by an agent to transact the whole, or a part, of the business intrusted to the latter.
Subagitation (n.) Unlawful sexual intercourse.
Subash (n.) A province; a government, as of a viceroy; also, a subahdar.
Subashdar (n.) A viceroy; a governor of a subah; also, a native captain in the British native army.
Subashdary (n.) Alt. of Subashship
Subashship (n.) The office or jurisdiction of a subahdar.
Subaid (v. t.) To aid secretly; to assist in a private manner, or indirectly.
Subalmoner (n.) An under almoner.
Subalpine (a.) Inhabiting the somewhat high slopes and summits of mountains, but considerably below the snow line.
Subaltern (a.) Ranked or ranged below; subordinate; inferior; specifically (Mil.), ranking as a junior officer; being below the rank of captain; as, a subaltern officer.
Subaltern (a.) Asserting only a part of what is asserted in a related proposition.
Subaltern (n.) A person holding a subordinate position; specifically, a commissioned military officer below the rank of captain.
Subaltern (n.) A subaltern proposition.
Subalternant (n.) A universal proposition. See Subaltern, 2.
Subalternate (a.) Succeeding by turns; successive.
Subalternate (a.) Subordinate; subaltern; inferior.
Subalternate (n.) A particular proposition, as opposed to a universal one. See Subaltern, 2.
Subalternating (a.) Subalternate; successive.
Subalternation (n.) The state of being subalternate; succession of turns; subordination.