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Having many forms, shapes, or appearances. A plastic and multiform unit. Hare.

The quality of being multiform; diversity of forms; variety of appearances in the same thing. Purchas.

Converted into a mummy or a mummylike substance; having the appearance of a mummy; withered.

pecks or filaments apparently seen moving or glinding about in the field of vision. Their appearance is often a symptom of disease of the eye, or of disorder of the nervous system.

Having the appearance or form of a moss.

Resembling marrow in appearance or consistency; as, a myeloid tumor.

The appearance of muscæ volitantes. See Muscæ volitantes, under Musca.

A disease producing a peculiar cretinoid appearance of the face, slow speech, and dullness of intellect, and due to failure of the functions of the thyroid gland. -- Myx`o*dem"a*tous (#), a., Myx`o*dem"ic (#), a.

A cloudy appearance in the urine. [Obs.]

Of, pertaining to, or having the appearance of, a nebula; nebular; cloudlike. -- Neb"u*lous*ly, adv. -- Neb"u*lous*ness, n.

A failure to attend; omission of attendance; nonappearance.

lly appearing suddenly, shining for a brief period, and then sinking into obscurity. Such appearances are supposed to result from cosmic collisions, as of a dark star with interstellar nebulosities. The most important modern novæ are: -- No"va Co*ro"næ Bo`re*a"lis [1866]; No"va Cyg"ni [1876]; No"va An*dro"me*dæ [1885];…

ate; pernicious; corrupting to morals; as, noxious practices or examples. Too frequent an appearance in places of public resort is noxious to spiritual promotions. Swift.

A cloudy object or appearance in urine. Dunglison.

Having the appearance or form of a coin. "Nummular sputa." Sir T. Watson.

Sight; show; appearance; aspect. [Obs.] Shak. He, advancing close Up to the lake, past all the rest, arose In glorious object. Chapman.

Fig.: The state of being occult. The reappearance of such an author after those long periods of occultation. Jeffrey. Circle of perpetual occultation. See under Circle.

Resembling an ogre; having the character or appearance of an ogre; suitable for an ogre. "An ogreish kind of jocularity." Dickens.

Covered with oil; greasy; hence, resembling oil; as, an oily appearance.

Of, pertaining to, or like, opal in appearance; having changeable colors like those of the opal.