| 1. | Also, oldstyle. Printing. a type style differentiated from modern by the more or less uniform thickness of all strokes and by slanted serifs. |
| 2. | (initial capital letters ) time reckoned according to the Julian calendar. Compare New Style. |
| 3. | Also, old-style. Typography. noting or descriptive of a font of numerals of which some part extends below the baseline. |