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The property of crystallizing in three forms fundamentally distinct, as is the case with titanium dioxide, which crystallizes in the forms of rutile, octahedrite, and brookite. See Pleomorphism.

In an utter manner; to the full extent; fully; totally; as, utterly ruined; it is utterly vain.

Power of seeing, either physically or mentally; reach or range of sight; extent of prospect. The walls of Pluto's palace are in view. Dryden.

and held his lands as a villain to his lord, his posterity also must do so, though accidentally they become noble. Jer. Taylor.

Unintentionally; accidentally. [Obs.] J. Dee.

A gambling or lottery device consisting of a wheel which is spun horizontally, articles or sums to which certain marks on its circumference point when it stops being distributed according to varying rules.

To the exclusion of other things; totally; fully. They employed themselves wholly in domestic life. Addison.

mps, set vertically in the ground, with one or two short rods, called bails, lying horizontally across the top.

-- Word square, a series of words so arranged that they can be read vertically and horizontally with like results.

The remain of anything ruined or fatally injured. To the fair haven of my native home, The wreck of what I was, fatigued I come. Cowper.

has from thirty to forty wires strung across a shallow sounding-board, which lies horizontally on a table before the performer, who uses both hands in playing on it.