a slender bristlelike or tubular process | a characteristic language of a particular group (as among thieves) |
a pointed tool for writing or drawing or engraving | specialized technical terminology characteristic of a particular subject |
how something is done or how it happens | a colorless (or pale yellow or smoky) variety of zircon |
distinctive and stylish elegance | |
the popular taste at a given time | |
a particular kind (as to appearance) | |
a way of expressing something (in language or art or music etc.) that is characteristic of a particular person or group of people or period | |
editorial directions to be followed in spelling and punctuation and capitalization and typographical display | |
(botany) the narrow elongated part of the pistil between the ovary and the stigma | |