(n): a basic or essential attribute shared by all members of a class
(n): 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
(n): something that is communicated by or to or between people or groups
(n): a particular kind (as to appearance)
(n): a category of things distinguished by some common characteristic or quality
(n): the popular taste at a given time
(n): delicate discrimination (especially of aesthetic values)
(n): (botany) the narrow elongated part of the pistil between the ovary and the stigma
(n): the parts of a plant involved in its reproduction
(n): editorial directions to be followed in spelling and punctuation and capitalization and typographical display
(n): a message describing how something is to be done
(n): distinctive and stylish elegance
(n): a refined quality of gracefulness and good taste
(n): a pointed tool for writing or drawing or engraving
(n): an implement used in the practice of a vocation
(n): a slender bristlelike or tubular process
(n): a natural prolongation or projection from a part of an organism either animal or plant
(v): designate by an identifying term
(v): assign a specified (usually proper) proper name to
(v): make consistent with a certain fashion or style
(v): make or cause to be or to become
(v): make consistent with certain rules of style
(v): communicate or express by writing
I reckoned Tom Sawyer couldn't a done it no neater himself. Of course he would a throwed more style into it, but I can't do that very handy, not being brung up to it. HF 27