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A machine consisting of many pulleys; specifically, an apparatus formerly used for reducing luxations.

Containing many seeds; as, a polyspermous capsule or berry. Martyn.

Fullness of sperm, or seed; the passage of more than one spermatozoön into the vitellus in the impregnation of the ovum.

Containing many spores.

A division of trematode worms having more two suckers. Called also Polystomea and Polystoma.

Having many mouths.

aving many columns; -- said of a building, especially of an interior part or court; as, a polystyle hall. -- n.

A sulphide having more than one atom of sulphur in the molecule; -- contrasted with monosulphide.

A polysulphide. [Obsoles.]

Pertaining to a polysyllable; containing, or characterized by, polysyllables; consisting of more than three syllables.

Polysyllabism.

Polysyllabism.

The quality or state of being polysyllabic.

A word of many syllables, or consisting of more syllables than three; -- words of less than four syllables being called monosyllables, dissyllables, and trisyllables.

Characterized by polysyndeton, or the multiplication of conjunctions. -- Pol`y*syn*det"ic*al*ly, adv.

A figure by which the conjunction is often repeated, as in the sentence, "We have ships and men and money and stores." Opposed to asyndeton.

The act or process of combining many separate elements into a whole.

Characterized by polysynthesis; agglutinative. Polysynthetic twinning (Min.), repeated twinning, like that of the triclinic feldspar, producing fine parallel bands in alternately reversed positions.

Polysynthesis.

Comprehending, or relating to, many arts and sciences; -- applied particularly to schools in which many branches of art and science are taught with especial reference to their practical application; also to exhibitions of machinery and industrial products.