English Dictionary

An instrument used by the ancients in writing on tablets covered with wax, having one of its ends sharp, and the other blunt, and somewhat expanded, for the purpose of making erasures by smoothing the wax.
Source : opted (151281)  - auto

Hence, anything resembling the ancient style in shape or use.
Source : opted (151282)  - auto

A pen; an author's pen.
Source : opted (151283)  - auto

A sharp-pointed tool used in engraving; a graver.
Source : opted (151284)  - auto

A kind of blunt-pointed surgical instrument.
Source : opted (151285)  - auto

A long, slender, bristlelike process, as the anal styles of insects.
Source : opted (151286)  - auto

The pin, or gnomon, of a dial, the shadow of which indicates the hour. See Gnomon.
Source : opted (151287)  - auto

The elongated part of a pistil between the ovary and the stigma. See Illust. of Stamen, and of Pistil.
Source : opted (151288)  - auto

Mode of expressing thought in language, whether oral or written; especially, such use of language in the expression of thought as exhibits the spirit and faculty of an artist; choice or arrangement of words in discourse; rhetorical expression.
Source : opted (151289)  - auto

Mode of presentation, especially in music or any of the fine arts; a characteristic of peculiar mode of developing in idea or accomplishing a result.
Source : opted (151290)  - auto