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A nonconformist. [Obs.]

Want of conformity; incongruity; inconsistency. South.

To decompose, or resolve into parts; to destroy the form of; to unmake. [R.] Good.

Decomposed, or resolved into parts; having the form destroyed.

Having the form of a claw or claws.

Having always the same form, manner, or degree; not varying or variable; unchanging; consistent; equable; homogenous; as, the dress of the Asiatics has been uniform from early ages; the temperature is uniform; a stratum of uniform clay. Whewell.

Uniform. [Obs.] Herrick.

The doctrine of uniformity in the geological history of the earth; -- in part equivalent to uniformitarianism, but also used, more broadly, as opposed to catastrophism.

One who accepts uniformitarianism, or the uniformitarian doctrine.

The uniformitarian doctrine.

The quality or state of being uniform; freedom from variation or difference; resemblance to itself at all times; sameness of action, effect, etc., under like conditions; even tenor; as, the uniformity of design in a poem; the uniformity of nature.

In a uniform manner; without variation or diversity; by a regular, constant, or common ratio of change; with even tenor; as, a temper uniformly mild. To vary uniformly (Math.), to vary with the ratio of the corresponding increments constant; -- said of two dependent quantities with regard to each other.…

Want of reformation; state of being unreformed. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.

Having the shape of a bear.

Existing in a vaporous form or state; as, steam is a vaporiform substance.

Resembling a varix.

Having different shapes or forms.

Formed with different shapes; having various forms; variform.

Having the form of a vessel, or duct. Vasiform tissue (Bot.), tissue containing vessels, or ducts.

Concerned in the development and formation of blood vessels and blood corpuscles; as, the vasoformative cells.