Search the Dictionary

ncluding but a single species (Leipoa ocellata), about the size of a turkey. Its color is variegated, drown, black, white, and gray. Called also native pheasant.

Variegated like marble; covered or overlaid with marble. [R.]

Covered with spots; speckled; variegated. [Obs.]

a purpurea) having handsome, funnel- shaped flowers, usually red, pink, purple, white, or variegated, sometimes pale blue. See Dextrorsal.

taining to the style of work called mosaic; formed by uniting pieces of different colors; variegated; tessellated; also, composed of various materials or ingredients. A very beautiful mosaic pavement. Addison. Florentine mosaic. See under Florentine. -- Mosaic gold. (a) See Ormolu. -- (b) Stannic sulphide, SnS2, obta…

Variegated in color; consisting of different colors; dappled; party-colored; as, a motley coat.

Marked with spots of different colors; variegated; spotted; as, mottled wood. "The mottled meadows." Drayton.

A species of ichneumon (Herpestes nyula). Its fur is beautifully variegated by closely set zigzag markings.

s, and its branches are the emblems of peace. The wood is yellowish brown and beautifully variegated.

nch worn on the helmet; any military plume, or ornamental group of feathers. A panache of variegated plumes. Prescott.

-- Partridge shell (Zoöl.), a large marine univalve shell (Dolium perdix), having colors variegated like those of the partridge. -- Partridge wood (a) A variegated wood, much esteemed for cabinetwork. It is obtained from tropical America, and one source of it is said to be the leguminous tree Andira inermis. Called a…

Colored with different tints; variegated; as, a party-colored flower. "Parti-colored lambs." Shak.

Variegated; striped. [Obs.] Evelyn.

one species (Perilla ocimoides, or P. Nankinensis) is often cultivated for its purple or variegated foliage.

flowers, and P. nyctaginiflora, with white flowers. There are also many hybrid forms with variegated corollas.

Variegated with spots of different colors; party-colored; spotted; piebald. "Pied coats." Burton. "Meadows trim with daisies pied." Milton. Pied antelope (Zoöl.), the bontebok. -- Pied-billed grebe (Zoöl.), the dabchick. -- Pied blackbird (Zoöl.), any Asiatic thrush of the genus Turdulus. -- Pied finch (Zoöl.) (a) T…

Not variegated, dyed, or figured; as, plain muslin.

Mottled with various colors; variegated; spotted; -- said of certain rocks.

A valuable cabinet wood of a dark red color, streaked and variegated with black, obtained from several tropical leguminous trees of the genera Dalbergia and Machærium. The finest kind is from Brazil, and is said to be from the Dalbergia nigra. African rosewood, the wood of the leguminous tree Pterocarpus erinaceus. --…

Marked with small spots; variegated with spots; speckled; of a sandy color, as a hound. Shak.