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species of Asiatic pheasants of the genus Ceriornis. They are brilliantly colored with a variety of tints, the back and breast are usually covered with white or buff ocelli, and the head is ornamented with two bright-colored, fleshy wattles. The crimson tragopan, or horned pheasant (C. satyra), of India is one of the…

acle, or theriac. -- Treacle water, a compound cordial prepared in different ways from a variety of ingredients, as hartshorn, roots of various plants, flowers, juices of plants, wines, etc., distilled or digested with Venice treacle. It was formerly regarded as a medicine of great virtue. Nares. Venice treacle. (Old…

An amorphous variety of manna obtained from the nests and cocoons of a Syrian coleopterous insect (Larinus maculatus, L. nidificans, etc.) which feeds on the foliage of a variety of thistle. It is used as an article of food, and is called also nest sugar.

A white variety of amphibole, or hornblende, occurring in long, bladelike crystals, and coarsely fibrous masses.

A variety of anhydrite composed of contorted plates fancied to resemble pieces of tripe.

A variety of the domestic pigeon.

frican anthropoid ape allied to the gorilla and chimpanzee, and by some considered only a variety of the chimpanzee. It is noted for building large, umbrella-shaped nests in trees. Called also tscheigo, tschiego, nschego, nscheigo.

in the internal organs, and especially in the lungs, where it constitutes the most common variety of pulmonary consumption.

r provided with, tubes. Tubular boiler. See under Boiler. -- Tubular breathing (Med.), a variety of respiratory sound, heard on auscultation over the lungs in certain cases of disease, resembling that produced by the air passing through the trachea. -- Tubular bridge, a bridge in the form of a hollow trunk or tube, m…

A variety of the domestic pigeon remarkable for its habit of tumbling, or turning somersaults, during its flight.

A variety of the domestic pigeon, remarkable for its short beak.

A variety of pigeon; a tumbler.

A variety of monazite.

the uniformity of sides in a regular figure; beauty is said to consist in uniformity with variety.

, having a strong acid taste, and an odor of old cheese. Active valeric acid, a metameric variety which turns the plane of polarization to the right, although formed by the oxidation of a levorotatory amyl alcohol.

A wanderer; one who strays in search of variety. [Poetic] Pious variers from the church. Tennyson.

Of or pertaining to a variety; characterizing a variety; constituting a variety, in distinction from an individual or species. Perplexed in determining what differences to consider as specific, and what as varietal. Darwin.

A variety; -- used in giving scientific names, and often abbreviated to var.

An old French variety of pear, of little value.

A scaly granular variety of anhydrite of a grayish white color, used for ornamental purposes.