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A change in the letters or syllables of a word.

A word having more than one form of the root.

Slender rods or tubes of colored glass fused together and embedded in clear glass; -- used for paperweights and other small articles.

A soft Tertiary sandstone; -- applied to a rock occurring in Switzerland. See Chart of Geology.

The thick, brown or dark colored, viscid, uncrystallizable sirup which drains from sugar, in the process of manufacture; any thick, viscid, sweet sirup made from vegetable juice or sap, as of the sorghum or maple. See Treacle.

A monoplastic element.

That has one form, or retains its primary form, as, a monoplastic element.

The restoration of lost parts of the body.

Mica; muscovite. See Mica.

A narration of mere fable.

A spermatocyte or spermoblast.

Of or pert. to Neo-Scholasticism.

The modern revival of the Scholastic philosophy, esp. of that of Thomas Aquinas, with critical revision to suit the exigencies of the general advance in learning. The Neo-Scholastic movement received a great impetus from Leo XIII.'s interest in it.

Belonging to, or designating, the modern revival of classical, esp. Greco-Roman, taste and manner of work in architecture, etc.

All that architecture which, since the beginning of the Italian Renaissance, about 1420, has been designed with deliberate imitation of Greco-Roman buildings.

Growth or development of new material; neoplasty.

A new formation or tissue, the product of morbid action.

of or pertaining to neoplasty, or neoplasia.

Restoration of a part by granulation, adhesive inflammation, or autoplasty.

Not having elasticity.