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of prayer made use of in the Roman Catholic Church in invocation of the Virgin. See Ave Maria.

A species of fern (Lomaria borealis), growing in Europe and Northwestern America.

has for its object the expression of an arbitrary, periodic function of two independent variables, in the proper form for a large class of physical problems, involving arbitrary data, over a spherical surface, and the deduction of solutions for every point of space. The functions employed in this method are called sph…

A sort of strawberry (Fragaria elatior).

A variant of -hood.

An order of Anthozoa; the Actinaria.

An East Indian stony coral now known to belong to the Alcyonaria; -- called also blue coral.

The dialect, formed with slight variations from the Attic, which prevailed among Greek writers after the time of Alexander.

definite purpose; irregularly. [Colloq.] Helter-skelter have I rode to thee. Shak. A wistaria vine running helter-skelter across the roof. J. C. Harris.

or reduced branchial apparatus. It includes the sticklebacks, the flutemouths, and Fistularia.

na, of Mexico and Yucatan. -- Sunn hemp, a fiber obtained from a leguminous plant (Crotalaria juncea). -- Water hemp, an annual American weed (Acnida cannabina), related to the amaranth.

A variety of the common gourd (Lagenaria vulgaris). Its fruit sometimes exceeds five feet in length. (c) The Angelica tree. See under Angelica. -- Hercules powder, an explosive containing nitroglycerin; -- used for blasting.

Variant of Hote. [Obs.] But one avow to greate God I hete. Chaucer.

A division of Lepidoptera, including the moths, and hawk moths, which have the antennæ variable in form.

heir being composed of different elements, or of like elements in different proportions; variation in structure from the normal form; -- opposed to homology.

One of those Arians who held that the Son was of a different substance from the Father.

ving the foot developed into a median fin. Some of the species are naked; others, as Carinaria and Atlanta, have thin glassy shells.

Variation in arrangement from that existing in a normal form; heterogenous arrangement or structure, as, in botany, the deviation in position of the organs of a plant, from the ordinary or typical arrangement.

Variant of Huke. [Obs.]

A variant of Height.