Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A former and more correct form of
stiletto . - noun In zoology, a small style; a stylet.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun rare A stiletto.
- noun (Surg.) See
Stylet , 2.
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- noun
stylet - noun
stiletto
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Examples
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The scribes stilet in hand waited in patient silence.
"Unto Caesar" Emmuska Orczy Orczy 1906
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Close upon Camilla she towers in her whole height, and crying thrice, swift as the assassin trebles his blow, 'Speak,' to Camilla, who is fronting her mildly, she raises her arm, and the stilet flashes into Camilla's bosom.
Vittoria — Volume 4 George Meredith 1868
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They faced mutually; one felt the point of his stilet, the other the temper of his sword.
Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868
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Close upon Camilla she towers in her whole height, and crying thrice, swift as the assassin trebles his blow, 'Speak,' to Camilla, who is fronting her mildly, she raises her arm, and the stilet flashes into Camilla's bosom.
Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868
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Angelo laid the blue stilet up his wrist, and slightly curled his arm.
Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868
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Angelo laid the blue stilet up his wrist, and slightly curled his arm.
Vittoria — Volume 4 George Meredith 1868
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Angelo tightened his fingers about the stringy grasstuft; he stood like a dreamer, leaning over to the sword; suddenly he sprang on it, received the point right in his side, sprang on it again, and seized it in his hand, and tossed it up, and threw it square out in time to burst within guard and strike his stilet below the Austrian's collar-bone.
Vittoria — Volume 5 George Meredith 1868
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They faced mutually; one felt the point of his stilet, the other the temper of his sword.
Vittoria — Volume 5 George Meredith 1868
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She followed his eye about the room till it rested on the stilet.
Vittoria — Volume 5 George Meredith 1868
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Angelo tightened his fingers about the stringy grasstuft; he stood like a dreamer, leaning over to the sword; suddenly he sprang on it, received the point right in his side, sprang on it again, and seized it in his hand, and tossed it up, and threw it square out in time to burst within guard and strike his stilet below the Austrian's collar-bone.
Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868
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