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exterior and one interior; as, quincuncial æstivation. Quincuncial phyllotaxy (Bot.), an arrangement of five leaves in a spiral, each leaf two fifths of a circle from the next.

An arrangement of things by fives in a square or a rectangle, one being placed at each corner and one in the middle; especially, such an arrangement of trees repeated indefinitely, so as to form a regular group with rows running in various directions.

Arranged in five vertical rows; pentastichous. Gray.

Arranged in a raceme, or in racemes.

A frame on which articles are deposited for keeping or arranged for display; as, a clothes rack; a bottle rack, etc.

n internal-combustion engine of a certain type (the radial type) having several cylinders arranged radially like the spokes of a complete wheel. The semiradial engine has radiating cylinders on only one side of the crank shaft.

An extensive artificial group of invertebrates, having all the parts arranged radially around the vertical axis of the body, and the various organs repeated symmetrically in each ray or spheromere.

Formed of, or arranged like, rays or radii; having parts or markings diverging, like radii, from a common center or axis; as, a radiated structure; a radiated group of crystals.

Arranged systematically, or according to classes or subjects; as, a catalogue raisonné. See under Catalogue.

To come into orderly arrangement; to renew order, or united effort, as troops scattered or put to flight; to assemble; to unite. The Grecians rally, and their powers unite. Dryden. Innumerable parts of matter chanced just then to rally together, and to form themselves into this new world. Tillotson.…

rocess of branching, or the development or offshoots from a stem; also, the mode of their arrangement.

To dispose in a classified or in systematic order; to arrange regularly; as, to range plants and animals in genera and species.

Arrangement. [Obs.] Waterland.

That which separates or arranges; specifically, a sieve. [Obs.] "The tamis ranger." Holland.

One who ranks, or disposes in ranks; one who arranges.

Order; arrangement. [Obs.] Thus sat they all around in seemly rate. Spenser.

Array; order; arrangement; dress. [Obs.] And spoiling all her gears and goodly ray. Spenser.

To adjust or settle again; to put in a different order or relation; to rearrange.

Fitted or arranged for immediate use; causing no delay for lack of being prepared or furnished. "Dinner was ready." Fielding. My oxen and my fatlings are killed, and all things are ready: come unto the marriage. Matt. xxii. 4.

To arrange and present the reasons for or against; to examine or discuss by arguments; to debate or discuss; as, I reasoned the matter with my friend. When they are clearly discovered, well digested, and well reasoned in every part, there is beauty in such a theory. T. Burnet.