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Like the figures found in ancient grottoes; grottolike; wildly or strangely formed; whimsical; extravagant; of irregular forms and proportions; fantastic; ludicrous; antic. "Grotesque design." Dryden. "Grotesque incidents." Macaulay.

In a grotesque manner.

Quality of being grotesque.

Grotesque action, speech, or manners; grotesque doings. "The sustained grotesquery of Feather-top." K. L. Bates.

A natural covered opening in the earth; a cave; also, an artificial recess, cave, or cavernlike apartment.

Artificial and ornamental rockwork in imitation of a grotto. Cowper.

A brother by one parent, but not by both.

A composition for infernal purposes; a magical preparation. Shak.

An insoluble, proteid substance, described by Schützenberger, formed when albumin is heated for some time with dilute sulphuric acid. It is apparently identical with antialbumid and dyspeptone.

Relating to, or characterized by, heterotaxy.

Variation in arrangement from that existing in a normal form; heterogenous arrangement or structure, as, in botany, the deviation in position of the organs of a plant, from the ordinary or typical arrangement.

A deviation from the natural position; -- a term applied in the case of organs or growths which are abnormal in situation.

A division of ciliated Infusoria, having fine cilia all over the body, and a circle of larger ones around the anterior end.

Having the embryo or ovule oblique or transverse to the funiculus; amphitropous. Gray.

Causing perspiration; diaphoretic or sudorific.

A receptacle for sacred objects.

A salt formed by the union of hydrotelluric acid and the base.

Formed by hydrogen and tellurium; as, hydrotelluric acid, or hydrogen telluride.

One of the calicles which, in some Hydroidea (Thecaphora), protect the hydrants. See Illust. of Hydroidea, and Campanularian.

A system of treating disease by baths and mineral waters.