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Having marks or patches of different colors; as, variegated leaves, or flowers. Ladies like variegated tulips show. Pope.

The act of variegating or diversifying, or the state of being diversified, by different colors; diversity of colors.

A wanderer; one who strays in search of variety. [Poetic] Pious variers from the church. Tennyson.

Of or pertaining to a variety; characterizing a variety; constituting a variety, in distinction from an individual or species. Perplexed in determining what differences to consider as specific, and what as varietal. Darwin.

A variety; -- used in giving scientific names, and often abbreviated to var.

The quality or state of being various; intermixture or succession of different things; diversity; multifariousness. Variety is nothing else but a continued novelty. South. The variety of colors depends upon the composition of light. Sir I. Newton. For earth this variety from heaven. Milton. There is a variety in the te…

A stage entertainment of successive separate performances, usually songs, dances, acrobatic feats, dramatic sketches, exhibitions of trained animals, or any specialties. Often loosely called vaudeville show.

Having different shapes or forms.

Formed with different shapes; having various forms; variform.

To make different; to vary; to variegate. [R.] Sylvester.

The smallpox.

Variolous.

Inoculation with smallpox.

(Geol.) A spherule of a variolite.

Variolous.

A kind of diorite or diabase containing imbedded whitish spherules, which give the rock a spotted appearance.

Of, pertaining to, or resembling, variolite.

Resembling smallpox; pertaining to the disease called varioloid.

rtaining to the smallpox; having pits, or sunken impressions, like those of the smallpox; variolar; variolic.

An instrument for comparing magnetic forces, esp. in the earth's magnetic field.