Merriam-Webster's Collegiate® Dictionary, 11th Edition
STYLE
I. noun see: stick
Date: 14th century
designation , title ,
2. a distinctive manner of expression (as in writing or speech) , a distinctive manner or custom of behaving or conducting oneself , a particular manner or technique by which something is done, created, or performed ,
3. stylus , gnomon 1b, the filiform usually elongated part of the pistil bearing a stigma at its apex, a slender elongated process (as a bristle) on an animal, a distinctive quality, form, or type of something ,
5. the state of being popular ; fashion , fashionable elegance, beauty, grace, or ease of manner or technique , a convention with respect to spelling, punctuation, capitalization, and typographic arrangement and display followed in writing or printing, see: fashion styleless adjective stylelessness noun
II. transitive verb (styled; styling)
Date: circa 1580
to call or designate by an identifying term ; name ,
2. to give a particular style to, to design, make, or arrange in accord with the prevailing mode, styler noun