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An ambiguous term; a word susceptible of different significations. Coleridge.

In an essential manner or degree; in an indispensable degree; really; as, essentially different.

nd distinctly evidenced. Glanvill. Had we . . . estranged ourselves from them in things indifferent. Hooker.

icals; as, amyl ether; valeric ether. Complex ether, Mixed ether (Chem.), an oxide of two different radicals in the same molecule; as, ethyl methyl ether, C2H5.O.CH3. -- Compound ether (Chem.), an ethereal salt or a salt of some hydrocarbon as the base; an ester. -- Ether engine (Mach.), a condensing engine like a st…

or condition of having strong reproductive powers; generation with full fertility between different species or races, specif. between hybrids of the first generation.

4th century A. D.), who held that Christ was not God but a created being, having a nature different from that of the Father. -- a.

Alliance, an alliance for mutual strengthening and common work, comprising Christians of different denominations and countries, organized in Liverpool, England, in 1845. -- Evangelical Church. (a) The Protestant Church in Germany. (b) A church founded by a fusion of Lutherans and Calvinists in Germany in 1817. -- Ev…

roduct of human activity. The agencies and laws of the process are variously explained by different philosophrs. Evolution is to me series with development. Gladstone.

meaning attributed to anything by one who explains it; definition; inerpretation; sense. Different explanations [of the Trinity]. Bp. Burnet.

essential; accidental; accompanying; superficial. The external circumstances are greatly different. Trench.

Away from the leaves, or inserted in a different place from them; as, extrafoliaceous prickles. Loudon.

n; -- often in the plural: things at an extreme distance from each other, the most widely different states, etc.; as, extremes of heat and cold, of virtue and vice; extremes meet. His parsimony went to the extreme of meanness. Bancroft.

To line near the edge, esp. with a different material; as, to face the front of a coat, or the bottom of a dress.

The finishing of any face of a wall with material different from that of which it is chiefly composed, or the coating or material so used.

Having the power to live under different conditions; as, a facultative parasite, a plant which is normally saprophytic, but which may exist wholly or in part as a parasite; -- opposed to obligate.

ith; to be subordinate to in the way of classification; as, these substances fall under a different class or order. -- To fall upon. (a) To attack. [See To fall on.] (b) To attempt; to have recourse to. "I do not intend to fall upon nice disquisitions." Holder. (c) To rush against.

ball, a ball in which porsons appear in fanciful dresses in imitation of the costumes of different persons and nations. -- Fancy fair, a fair at which articles of fancy and ornament are sold, generally for some charitable purpose. -- Fancy goods, fabrics of various colors, patterns, etc., as ribbons, silks, laces, e…

Widely different in nature or quality; opposite in character. He was far from ill looking, though he thought himself still farther. F. Anstey.

Whig and Tory have been pressed to the service of many successions of parties, with very different ideas fastened to them. Swift.

A measure of quantity, differing for different commodities. [Obs.] Hebert.