stylographic, a.
(staɪləʊˈgræfɪk)
[Formed as prec. + -graphic.]
1. Relating to stylography or writing with a style (see quots.). ? Obs.
| 1808 R. Wedgwood Patent Specif. No. 3110 An apparatus for producing several original writings or drawings at one and the same time which I call a Pennæpolygraph or pen and stylographic manifold writer. 1846 Worcester, Stylographic, Stylographical, relating to stylography. Crosman. 1847–54 Webster, Stylographic, pertaining to or used in stylography; as, stylographic cards, cards which may be written upon with a style. Stylographic pencil, a pencil or style for this kind of writing. |
2. stylographic pen: a variety of fountain-pen, having no nib, but a fine perforated writing-point fed with ink from the reservoir in the stem; in this point is fitted a fine needle, which when pushed back in the act of writing opens a valve so as to permit the flow of the ink.
| 1880 Harper's Monthly Mag. LX. 624 A ream of paper, and a stylographic pen. 1892 G. & W. Grossmith Diary of a Nobody xviii, A new patent stylographic pen, which cost me nine-and-sixpence. |
Hence styloˈgraphical a. (Worcester 1846), styloˈgraphically adv. (Webster 1864).