Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A stylographic pen.

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  • noun A stylographic pen.

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  • noun A fountain pen that has a thin hollow tube or needle instead of a nib.

Etymologies

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style (stylus) + -graph

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Examples

  • Tims's thoughts had forsaken the personal side of the question, when she was recalled to it by seeing the right hand in which the stylograph had been lying begin to twitch, the fingers to contract.

    The Invader A Novel

  • It held a stylograph and had been resting on some scattered sheets of foolscap that Ian had left there in the morning.

    The Invader A Novel

  • Généresse (1807) and of Bruno, the typhlograph of Passard, Dr. Nord's skotograph, Dr. Woizechowsky's amaurograph, Count de Beaufort's stylograph, Wedgewood's noctograph, and the writing-frames of the

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy 1840-1916 1913

  • His noisy entrance challenged no response, and, looking round, it appeared for an instant that the room was empty; but, lowering his eyes, he saw first the detective's open notebook and stylograph lying upon the ground, then he discovered Peter Hardcastle himself upon his face with his arms stretched out before him.

    The Grey Room Eden Phillpotts 1911

  • His glance rested on his son Draper, seated opposite him behind a barrier of Georgian silver and orchids; but his words were addressed to his secretary who, stylograph in hand, had turned from the seductions of a mushroom souffle in order to jot down, for the Sunday Investigator, an outline of his employer's views and intentions respecting the newly endowed Orlando G. Spence College for Missionaries.

    The Blond Beast 1910

  • His glance rested on his son Draper, seated opposite him behind a barrier of Georgian silver and orchids; but his words were addressed to his secretary who, stylograph in hand, had turned from the seductions of a mushroom souffle in order to jot down, for the Sunday Investigator, an outline of his employer's views and intentions respecting the newly endowed Orlando G. Spence College for Missionaries.

    The Blond Beast 1910

  • On a wooden board beside him was some music paper, and now and then with a stylograph he jotted down some notes.

    The Way of Ambition Robert Smythe Hichens 1907

  • But first he changed the quill for his own stylograph, and wrote with that.

    The Blotting Book 1903

  • As a matter of fact, his writing is done with a stylograph pen, which he always carries in his pocket.

    McClure's Magazine December, 1895 Ida M. Tarbell 1900

  • His glance rested on his son Draper, seated opposite him behind a barrier of Georgian silver and orchids; but his words were addressed to his secretary who, stylograph in hand, had turned from the seductions of a mushroom _souffle_ in order to jot down, for the

    Tales of Men and Ghosts Edith Wharton 1899

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  • (n): a type of fountain pen with a conical writing point that controls the flow of ink from a reservoir located in the pen's barrel. Also called a stylographic pen.

    I'm reminded that common writing pens are called stylos in some European countries I've traveled in.

    January 7, 2009