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Dialect; a variant form of a language.

. J is the tenth letter of the English alphabet. It is a later variant form of the Roman letter I, used to express a consonantal sound, that is, originally, the sound of English y in yet. The forms J and I have, until a recent time, been classed together, and they have been used interchangeably.

A state of confusion or disorder; -- prob. variant of mess, but influenced by muss, a scramble. [Colloq. U.S.]

y odal estates and tenure exist in Orkney and Shetland, where it is usually called by the variant form udal.

salt and water, and the phases salt, ice, saturated solution, and vapor, the system is invariant, that is, there is only one set of conditions under which these four phases can exist in equilibrium. If only three phases be considered, the system is univariant, that is, the fixing of one condition, as temperature, dete…

A variant of Sovereign. [Poetic] On thy bald, awful head, O sovran Blanc. Coleridge.

A variant of Strait, a. [Obs. or R.] Egypt is a long country, but it is straight, that is to say, narrow. Sir J. Mandeville.

A variant of Straiten. [Obs. or R.]

A variant of Straitly. See 1st Straight.

A variant of Straitness.

A variant of Straight. [Obs.]

The quality or state of being variant; change of condition; variation.

erit (imperfect) and past participle by adding to the present the suffix - ed, -d, or the variant form -t; as in the verbs abash, abashed; abate, abated; deny, denied; feel, felt. See Strong, 19 (a).

A variant of 1st Wick.

Properly, a variant of the defective imperfect yode, but sometimes mistaken for a present. See the Note under Yede. [Obs.] Years yead away and faces fair deflower. Drant.