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A set; a kind or description, species or variety. She had lost one class energies. Macaulay.

cal compounds of water, silica, and aluminia, as halloysite, bole, etc. -- Fire clay , a variety of clay, entirely free from lime, iron, or an alkali, and therefore infusible, and used for fire brick. -- Porcelain clay, a very pure variety, formed directly from the decomposition of feldspar, and often called kaolin.…

A variety of albite, white and lamellar in structure.

g, in the eye of the law, clerici, or clerks. This privilege was abridged and modified by various statutes, and finally abolished in the reign of George IV. (1827). -- Regular clergy, Secular clergy See Regular, n., and Secular, a.

The condition of a place in relation to various phenomena of the atmosphere, as temperature, moisture, etc., especially as they affect animal or vegetable life.

To mark with, or darken in, veins or sports; to variegate with colors; as, to cloud yarn. And the nice conduct of a clouded cane. Pope.

Marked with veins or sports of dark or various hues, as marble.

ed for fastening clouts to axletrees, plowshares, etc., also for studding timber, and for various purposes.

A short, variously distorted foot; also, the deformity, usually congenital, which such a foot exhibits; talipes.

A large roundish variety of the cultivated hazelnut.

One of the round variety of bacteria, a vegetable organism, generally less than a thousandth of a millimeter in diameter.

A granular variety of pyroxene, green or white in color.

A large variety of the domestic fowl, originally from Cochin China (Anam).

The Russian variety of bagatelle.

low, the legs short or of medium length, and the coat fine and silky, wavy but not curly. Various colors are bred, as black, liver, red, black and white, black and tan, etc.

A plant (Celosia cristata), of many varieties, cultivated for its broad, fantastic spikes of brilliant flowers; -- sometimes called garden cockscomb. Also the Pedicularis, or lousewort, the Rhinanthus Crista-galli, and the Onobrychis Crista-galli.

A variety of Cratægus, or hawthorn (C. Crus-galli), having long, straight thorns; -- called also Cockspur thorn.

in the West India Islands. It is used in cabinetmaking, for the handles of tools, and for various fancy articles.

The common tissue which unites the various zooids of a bryozoan.

A plant of several species of the Mint family, cultivated for its bright-colored or variegated leaves.