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Deviating from ordinary forms or rules; irregular; anomalous; abnormal.

Deviating from the normal, perfect, or mature form; having different forms at different stages of existence, or in different individuals of the same species; -- applied especially to insects in which there is a wide difference of form between the larva and the adult, and to plants having more than one form of flower.…

at existing in a normal form; heterogenous arrangement or structure, as, in botany, the deviation in position of the organs of a plant, from the ordinary or typical arrangement.

A deviation from the natural position; -- a term applied in the case of organs or growths which are abnormal in situation.

A title borne by the princes or governors of Moldavia and Wallachia before those countries were united as Roumania.

The name also given to Scilla Peruviana, a Mediterranean plant, one variety of which produces white, and another blue, flowers; -- called also, from a mistake as to its origin, Hyacinth of Peru.

An abbreviation of hypochonaria; -- usually in plural. [Colloq.] Heaven send thou hast not got the hyps. Swift.

In the same place; -- abbreviated ibid. or ib.

A native, or one of the Scandinavian people, of Iceland.

The language of the Icelanders. It is one of the Scandinavian group, and is more nearly allied to the Old Norse than any other language now spoken.

The same; the same as above; -- often abbreviated id.

A symbol used for convenience, or for abbreviation; as, 1, 2, 3, +, -,

uality of being idle (in the various senses of that word); uselessness; fruitlessness; triviality; inactivity; laziness.

Same as Vesuvianite.

Abbreviation of Latin id est, that is.

Subject; matter. [Obs.] Upon importance of so slight and trivial a nature. Shak.

To deviate from a line, direction, or course, toward an object; to lean; to tend; as, converging lines incline toward each other; a road inclines to the north or south.

Not considerable; unworthy of consideration or notice; unimportant; small; trivial; as, an inconsiderable distance; an inconsiderable quantity, degree, value, or sum. "The baser scum and inconsiderable dregs of Rome." Stepney. -- In`con*sid"er*a*ble*ness, n. -- In`con*sid"er*a*bly, adv.

Not direct; not straight or rectilinear; deviating from a direct line or course; circuitous; as, an indirect road.

Deviation from an upright or straightforward course; unfairness; dishonesty. W. Montagu.