STYGIAN
Styg"i*an, a. Etym: [L. Stygius, fr. Styx, Stygis, Gr.
Defn: Of or pertaining to the river Styx; hence, hellish; infernal.
See Styx.
At that so sudden blaze, the Stygian throng Bent their aspect.
Milton.
STYLAGALMAIC
Sty`la*gal*ma"ic, a. Etym: [Gr. (Arch.)
Defn: Performing the office of columns; as, Atlantes and Caryatides are stylagalmaic figures or images. [Written also stylogalmaic.]
STYLAR
Sty"lar, a.
Defn: See Stilar.
STYLASTER
Sty*las"ter, n. Etym: [NL., from Gr. (Zoöl.)
Defn: Any one of numerous species of delicate, usually pink, calcareous hydroid corals of the genus Stylaster.
STYLE Style, n. Etym: [OE. stile, F. style, Of. also stile, L. stilus a style or writing instrument, manner or writing, mode of expression; probably for stiglus, meaning, a pricking instrument, and akin to E. stick. See Stick, v. t., and cf. Stiletto. The spelling with y is due to a supposed connection with Gr.
1. 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.