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To renew; to reëstablish; as, to restore harmony among those who are variance.

To unite again; to join after separation or variance. Shak.

A composition irregular in form, like an improvisation; as, Liszt's "Hungarian Rhapsodies."

n this battle, . . . the Britons never more plainly manifested themselves to be right barbarians. Milton.

Growing along the banks of rivers; riparian.

The ova or spawn of fishes and amphibians, especially when still inclosed in the ovarian membranes. Sometimes applied, loosely, to the sperm and the testes of the male.

Any one of numerous species of Old World picarian birds of the family Coraciadæ. The name alludes to their habit of suddenly turning over or "tumbling" in flight.

Of or pertaining to the Sacramentarians.

A European mountain trout (Salvelinus alpinus); -- called also Bavarian charr.

A sanitarian.

A man of extreme, unfeeling, brutal cruelty; a barbarian.

nt; specifically, an explanatory comment on the text of a classic author by an early grammarian.

The calcareous or hornlike coral forming the central stem or axis of most compound alcyonarians; -- called also foot secretion. See Illust. under Gorgoniacea, and Coenenchyma. -- Scler`o*ba"sic, a.

The picarian birds, as distinguished from the singing birds.

A sertularian hydroid, especially Sertularia abietina, which branches like a miniature fir tree.

Sectarianism. [Obs.]

A sectarian; a member or adherent of a sect; a follower or disciple of some particular teacher in philosophy or religion; one who separates from an established church; a dissenter. I never knew that time in England when men of truest religion were not counted sectaries. Milton.

power, or happiness, without regarding those of others. Selfishness,- a vice utterly at variance with the happiness of him who harbors it, and, as such, condemned by self-love. Sir J. Mackintosh.

A septuagenarian.

o be. The Lord thy God will set thee on hihg. Deut. xxviii. 1. I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother. Matt. x. 35. Every incident sets him thinking. Coleridge.