Word Meanings - STILTY - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Unreasonably elevated; pompous; stilted; as, a stilty style.
Related words: (words related to STILTY)
- STYLET
A small poniard; a stiletto. An instrument for examining wounds and fistulas, and for passing setons, and the like; a probe, -- called also specillum. A stiff wire, inserted in catheters or other tubular instruments to maintain their shape - POMPOUS
1. Displaying pomp; stately; showy with grandeur; magnificent; as, a pompous procession. 2. Ostentatious; pretentious; boastful; vainlorious; as, pompous manners; a pompous style. "Pompous in high presumption." Chaucer. he pompous vanity of the - ELEVATOR
One who, or that which, raises or lifts up anything; as: A mechanical contrivance, usually an endless belt or chain with a series of scoops or buckets, for transferring grain to an upper loft for storage. A cage or platform and the hoisting - ELEVATED
Uplifted; high; lofty; also, animated; noble; as, elevated thoughts. Elevated railway, one in which the track is raised considerably above the ground, especially a city railway above the line of street travel. - STILTBIRD
See 3 - STILTON CHEESE; STILTON
A peculiarly flavored unpressed cheese made from milk with cream added; -- so called from the village or parish of Stilton, England, where it was originally made. It is very rich in fat. Thus, in the outset he was gastronomic; discussed the dinner - ELEVATORY
Tending to raise, or having power to elevate; as, elevatory forces. - ELEVATION
The distance of a celestial object above the horizon, or the arc of a vertical circle intercepted between it and the horizon; altitude; as, the elevation of the pole, or of a star. (more info) 1. The act of raising from a lower place, condition, - STILTED
Elevated as if on stilts; hence, pompous; bombastic; as, a stilted style; stilted declamation. Stilted arch , an arch in which the springing line is some distance above the impost, the space between being occupied by a vertical member, molded or - ELEVATEDNESS
The quality of being elevated. - STYLE
The pin, or gnomon, of a dial, the shadow of which indicates (more info) 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., - ELEVATE
Elevated; raised aloft. Milton. - STILT
Any species of limicoline birds belonging to Himantopus and allied genera, in which the legs are remarkably long and slender. Called also longshanks, stiltbird, stilt plover, and lawyer. Note: The American species is well known. The European and - STILTIFY
To raise upon stilts, or as upon stilts; to stilt. - STILTY
Unreasonably elevated; pompous; stilted; as, a stilty style. - ARAEOSTYLE
See INTERCOLUMNIATION - CYCLOSTYLE
A contrivance for producing manifold copies of writing or drawing. The writing or drawing is done with a style carrying a small wheel at the end which makes minute punctures in the paper, thus converting it into a stencil. Copies are transferred - SURSTYLE
To surname. - AMPHIPROSTYLE
Doubly prostyle; having columns at each end, but not at the sides. -- n. - INSTYLE
To style. Crashaw. - ENDOSTYLE
A fold of the endoderm, which projects into the blood cavity of ascidians. See Tunicata. - DODECASTYLE
Having twelve columns in front. -- n. - POLYSTYLE
Having many columns; -- said of a building, especially of an interior part or court; as, a polystyle hall. -- n. - CYRTOSTYLE
A circular projecting portion. - SUBSTYLE
A right line on which the style, or gnomon, of a dial is erected; being the common section of the face of the dial and a plane - OCTASTYLE
See OCTOSTYLE - PENTASTYLE
Having five columns in front; -- said of a temple or portico in classical architecture. -- n. - DECASTYLE
Having ten columns in front; -- said of a portico, temple, etc. -- n. - HETEROSTYLED
Having styles of two or more distinct forms or lengths. Darwin. - TETRASTYLE
Having four columns in front; -- said of a temple, portico, or colonnade. -- n. - AREOSTYLE
See ARæOSTYLE - RELEVATION
A raising or lifting up.