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Containing notes by different persons; -- applied to a publication; as, a variorum edition of a book.

Different; diverse; several; manifold; as, men of various names; various occupations; various colors. So many and so various laws are given. Milton. A wit as various, gay, grave, sage, or wild. Byron.

In various or different ways.

An apple-green mineral occurring in reniform masses. It is a hydrous phosphate of alumina.

An imperfection on the inside of the hind leg in horses, different from a curb, but at the same height, and frequently injuring the sale of the animal by growing to an unsightly size. Craig.

A uneven, permanent dilatation of a vein.

Preventing the contagion of smallpox.

ovetousness; cupidity. To desire money for its own sake, and in order to hoard it up, is avarice. Beattie.

Actuated by avarice; greedy of gain; immoderately desirous of accumulating property.

Of or pertaining to Bavaria. -- n.

The bones of the cranium; more especially, the bones of the domelike upper portion.

A mock serenade of discordant noises, made with kettles, tin horns, etc., designed to annoy and insult.

A function involving the coefficients and the variables of a quantic, and such that when the quantic is lineally transformed the same function of the new variables and coefficients shall be equal to the old function multiplied by a factor. An invariant is a like function involving only the coefficients of the quantic.…

To diverge; to be divaricate. Woodward.

With divarication.

A separation into two parts or branches; a forking; a divergence.

One of the muscles which open the shell of brachiopods; a cardinal muscle. See Illust. of Brachiopoda.

The quality of being invariable; invariableness; constancy; uniformity.

Not given to variation or change; unalterable; unchangeable; always uniform. Physical laws which are invariable. I. Taylor. -- In*va"ri*a*ble*ness, n. -- In*va"ri*a*bly, adv.

The property of remaining invariable under prescribed or implied conditions. J. J. Sylvester.