styluses Definition

stylus
noun styluses, styli

1a. A hard pointed device, usually made from diamond or sapphire, at the tip of the needle-like part of the cartridge at the end of the arm of a record-player, which picks up the sound from the record's grooves;
1b. A similar device for recording information given out by electrocardiographs, seismographs, etc;
1c. The cutting tool that is used to produce the grooves in a record.
2a. A pointed implement for engraving, drawing, writing, etc;

Form: style (also)
2b. A type of ancient writing implement that has one pointed end for inscribing characters in wax tablets and a flat blunted end for making corrections and erasures.

Form: style (also)

Etymology: 17c: from Latin stilus, which was incorrectly altered to stylus, a stake or pointed writing implement.