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terpoint sung above the plain song of the tenor; a variation of an air; a variation by ornament of the main subject or plain song.

Resembling, or having the characteristics of, a ligament; ligamentous.

The science which treats of the ligaments. [R.]

A will or testament, conveying real estate; the clause of a will making a gift of real property. Fines upon devises were still exacted. Bancroft.

A Linnæan class of plants whose stamens are united into two bodies or bundles by their filaments.

Of or pertaining to the class Diadelphia; having the stamens united into two bodies by their filaments (said of a plant or flower); grouped into two bundles or sets by coalescence of the filaments (said of stamens).

Originally, an ornamental head band or fillet, worn by Eastern monarchs as a badge of royalty; hence (later), also, a crown, in general. "The regal diadem." Milton.

A pointed projection, like a four-sided pyramid, used for ornament in lines or groups.

A Linnæan class of plants having two stamens.

Of or pertaining to the class Diandria; having two stamens.

To ornament with figures, etc., arranged in the pattern called diaper, as cloth in weaving. "Diapered light." H. Van Laun. Engarlanded and diapered With in wrought flowers. Tennyson.

A continuous narrative arranged from the first four books of the New Testament.

To ornament with squares, diamonds, or cubes.

The condition of certain species of plants, in which the stamens and pistil do not mature simultaneously, so that these plants can never fertilize themselves.

An ornamenting in squares or cubes.

Having the stamens and pistils in separate flowers. Gray.

An arbitrament or award.

A Linnæan class of plants having four stamens disposed in pairs of unequal length.

Of or pertaining to the Didynamia; containing four stamens disposed in pairs of unequal length.

The interbrain or thalamencephalon; -- sometimes abbreviated to dien. See Thalamencephalon.