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a thing that has not its equal. It is given as a name to various objects, as to a choice variety of apple, a species of medic (Medicago lupulina), a variety of pottery clay, etc.

ty, and strength, with the use of the semicircular arch, heavy round columns, and a great variety of ornaments, among which the zigzag and spiral or cable-formed ornaments were prominent.

A variety of siliceous slate, of which hones are made; razor stone; Turkey stone; hone stone; whet slate.

A white variety of domestic pigeons having a veil of feathers covering the head.

, from, or out from; proceeding from; belonging to; relating to; concerning; -- used in a variety of applications; as:

Any one of a great variety of unctuous combustible substances, not miscible with water; as, olive oil, whale oil, rock oil, etc. They are of animal, vegetable, or mineral origin and of varied composition, and they are variously used for food, for solvents, for anointing, lubrication, illumination, etc. By extension, an…

A variety of hone slate, or whetstone, used for whetting tools when lubricated with oil.

g clusters of fragrant red or white flowers. It is native of the East Indies, but the red variety has become common in the south of Europe. Called also rosebay, rose laurel, and South-sea rose.

A common name of the yellowish green mineral chrysolite, esp. the variety found in eruptive rocks.

ameos, the figure being cut in one layer with the next as a ground. Onyx marble, a banded variety of marble or calcium carbonate resembling onyx. It is obtained from Mexico.

A variety of limestone, consisting of small round grains, resembling the roe of a fish. It sometimes constitutes extensive beds, as in the European Jurassic. See the Chart of Geology.

A fragrant variety of black tea having somewhat the flavor of green tea. [Written also oulong.]

An orange-yellow variety of the mineral thorite, found in Norway.

A large music box imitating a variety of orchestral instruments.

A bright-colored domesticated variety of the id. See Id.

The natural or wild species from which a domesticated or cultivated variety has been derived; as, the wolf is thought by some to be the original of the dog, the blackthorn the original of the plum.

A variety of the plum. See under Plum. [Eng.]

A variety of brass made to resemble gold by the use of less zinc and more copper in its composition than ordinary brass contains. Its golden color is often heightened by means of lacquer of some sort, or by use of acids. Called also mosaic gold. Ormolu varnish, a varnish applied to metals, as brass, to give the appeara…

A variety of allanite occurring in slender prismatic crystals.

Connection with, or affinity to, one variety of isomerism, characteristic of the benzene compounds; -- contrasted with meta- or para-; as, the ortho position; hence, designating any substance showing such isomerism; as, an ortho compound.