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A variety of altered iolite of a green color and greasy luster.

The act of prefiguring, or the state of being prefigured. A variety of prophecies and prefigurations. Norris.

ng a proverb. Book of Proverbs, a canonical book of the Old Testament, containing a great variety of wise maxims.

Falsely hypertrophic; as, pseudo-hypertrophic paralysis, a variety of paralysis in which the muscles are apparently enlarged, but are really degenerated and replaced by fat.

A massive subcolumnar variety of topaz.

A variety of pyroxene; -- called also fassaite.

A variety of garnet, of a poppy or blood-red color, frequently with a tinge of orange. It is used as a gem. See the Note under Garnet.

; also, shaped like quills. "A sharp- quilled porcupine." Shak. Quilled suture (Surg.), a variety of stitch in which the threads after being passed deeply through the edges of a wound are secured about two quills or bodies of similar shape, in order to produce a suitable degree of pressure.

A variety of such fixed character that it may be propagated by seed.

A variety of the game of tennis played with peculiar long-handled rackets; -- chiefly in the plural. Chaucer.

A name given to a variety or to varieties of a plant of the turnip kind, grown for seeds and herbage. The seeds are used for the production of rape oil, and to a limited extent for the food of cage birds.

To raise up something in; to introduce a contrast or variety into; to remove the monotony or sameness of. The poet must . . . sometimes relieve the subject with a moral reflection. Addison.

A soft, compact variety of talc,, being an altered pyroxene. It is often worked in a lathe into inkstands and other articles.

A species or variety which, in any region, takes the place of a similar one in another region.

illing Edward's blood. Shak. In orchards and gardens, we do not so much respect beauty as variety of ground for fruits, trees, and herbs. Bacon.

A translucent variety of serpentine, of a honey yellow or greenish yellow color, having a waxy resinlike luster.

A variety of the mineral cyanite.

A variety of dolomite.

See Ribbon. Riband jasper (Min.), a variety of jasper having stripes of different colors, as red and green.

A rockling. -- Rock cork (Min.), a variety of asbestus the fibers of which are loosely interlaced. It resembles cork in its texture. -- Rock crab (Zoöl.), any one of several species of large crabs of the genus Cancer, as the two species of the New England coast (C. irroratus and C. borealis). See Illust. under Cancer…