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Arranged in many rows, or series, as the scales of a pine cone, or the leaves of the houseleek.

Resembling courses of bricks or stones in squareness and regular arrangement; as, a muriform variety of cellular tissue.

mfish, grunt, gizzard shad, etc. -- Musical glasses, glass goblets or bowls so tuned and arranged that when struck, or rubbed, they produce musical notes. CF. Harmonica, 1.

To disarrange, as clothing; to rumple. [Colloq. U.S.]

Disarranged; rumpled. [Colloq. U.S.]

To carry on negotiations concerning; to procure or arrange for by negotiation; as, to negotiate peace, or an exchange. Constantinople had negotiated in the isles of the Archipelago ... the most indispensable supplies. Gibbon.

The arrangement of nerves and veins, especially those of leaves; neuration. The outlines of the fronds of ferns, and their nervation, are frail characters if employed alone for the determination of existing genera. J. D. Hooker.

The arrangement or distribution of nerves, as in the leaves of a plant or the wings of an insect; nervation.

A systematic arrangement, or classification, of diseases.

The arrangement of the red blood corpuscles in rouleaux, like piles of coins, as when a drop of human blood is examined under the microscope.

raminifera, having a thin, flat, round shell, containing a large number of small chambers arranged spirally.

Patagonia. It is covered with blackish ocellated spots and blotches, which are variously arranged. The ground color varies from reddish gray to tawny yellow.

d by Origen in the 3d century, containing the Hebrew text and seven Greek versions of it, arranged in eight parallel columns.

The arrangement of music for an orchestra; orchestral treatment of a composition; -- called also instrumentation.

To set in order; to arrange according to rule; to regulate; to set; to establish. "Battle well ordained." Spenser. The stake that shall be ordained on either side. Chaucer.

Regular arrangement; any methodical or established succession or harmonious relation; method; system; as:

One who puts in order, arranges, methodizes, or regulates.

day, or that officer of a corps or regiment whose turn it is to supervise for the day the arrangements for food, cleanliness, etc. Farrow. -- Orderly room. (a) The court of the commanding officer, where charges against the men of the regiment are tried. (b) The office of the commanding officer, usually in the barracks…

Orderly arrangement; preparation; provision. [Obs.] Spenser. They had made their ordinance Of victual, and of other purveyance. Chaucer.

Disposition; arrangement; order. [R.] Angle of ordination (Geom.), the angle between the axes of coördinates.