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ark, or ship, in form. (b) A child's toy, consisting of an ark-shaped box containing many different wooden animals.

Fine lines ruled on glass in a series of groups of different closeness of line, and used to test the power of a microscope.

Indifferent; careless; cool.

In a nonchalant, indifferent, or careless manner; coolly.

Not in any manner or degree; in no way; noways. Others whose case is nowise different. Earle.

ect to number, or sameness in number; as, a thing is numerically the same, or numerically different.

Ready to obey; reverent; differential; also, servilely submissive.

Bot.) (a) A leaf twisted or inclined from the normal position. (b) A leaf having one half different from the other. -- Oblique line (Geom.), a line that, meeting or tending to meet another, makes oblique angles with it. -- Oblique motion (Mus.), a kind of motion or progression in which one part ascends or descends, w…

To meet in the way. [Obs.] Not to stir a step to obviate any of a different religion. Fuller.

Different from what is usual or common; unusual; singular; peculiar; unique; strange. "An odd action." Shak. "An odd expression." Thackeray. The odd man, to perform all things perfectly, is, in my poor opinion, Joannes Sturmius. Ascham. Patients have sometimes coveted odd things. Arbuthnot. Locke's Essay would be a ver…

d, at least, four to one odds against them. Swift. All the odds between them has been the different s "cope....given to their understandings to range in. Locke. Judging is balancing an account and determining on which side the odds lie. Locke.

Denoting a different direction; not on or towards: away; as, to look off.

A dish of stewed meat of different kinds. [Obs.] Besides a good olio, the dishes were trifling. Evelyn.

The aggregate value of the different stocks in which a loan to government is now usually funded. M'Culloch.

cannot be charged directly to any particular article manufactured or work done (as where different kinds of goods are produced), but must be allocated so that each kind of goods or work shall bear its proper share. [Brit.]

Pointing out a contrast, or denoting a particular thing or person different from some other specified; -- used as a correlative adjective, with or without the. From the one side of heaven unto the other. Deut. iv. 32.

Chalcedony in parallel layers of different shades of color. It is used for making cameos, the figure being cut in one layer with the next as a ground. Onyx marble, a banded variety of marble or calcium carbonate resembling onyx. It is obtained from Mexico.

Open time; -- applied to different things:

Applied to the other of two things which are entirely different; other; as, the opposite sex; the opposite extreme.

, or in quality, or in both; or between two propositions which have the same matter but a different form.