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white or greenish. It is a silicate of magnesia with some iron. Bronzite is a ferriferous variety.

Counting, or reckoning up, one by one. Enumerative of the variety of evils. Jer. Taylor.

A separate incident, story, or action, introduced for the purpose of giving a greater variety to the events related; an incidental narrative, or digression, separable from the main subject, but naturally arising from it.

sed representation of anything. An epitome of English fashionable life. Carlyle. A man so various that he seemed to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome. Dryden.

One of the artificial group of invertebrates of various kinds, which live parasitically upon the exterior of other animals; an ectozoön. Among them are the lice, ticks, many acari, the lerneans, or fish lice, and other crustaceans.

Uniform in action or intensity; not variable or changing; -- said of the feelings or temper.

Not variable; equable; uniform; even; as, an equal movement. "An equal temper." Dryden.

Increasing by equal increments; as, an equicrescent variable.

A disease of the skin, in which a diffused inflammation forms rose-colored patches of variable size.

A colorless crystalline substance, C20H22O10, extracted from certain lichens, as the various species of Rocella. It is a derivative of orsellinic acid. So called because of certain red compounds derived from it. Called also erythric acid.

odor, and hot burning taste. They are used in essences, perfumery, etc., and include many varieties of compounds; as lemon oil is a terpene, oil of bitter almonds an aldehyde, oil of wintergreen an ethereal salt, etc.; -- called also volatile oils in distinction from the fixed or nonvolatile.

Cinnamon stone, a variety of garnet. See Garnet.

A variant of Eddish. [Obs.] Mortimer.

A white, crystalline hydrocarbon, regarded as a polymeric variety of ethylene, obtained in heavy oil of wine, the residue left after making ether; -- formerly called also concrete oil of wine.

An oily hydrocarbon regarded as a polymeric variety of ethylene, produced with etherin.

A black substance; -- formerly applied to various preparations of a black or very dark color. [Written also Æthiops.] [Obs.] Ethiops martial (Old Chem.), black oxide of iron. -- Ethiops mineral (Old Chem.), black sulphide of mercury, obtained by triturating mercury with sulphur. -- Ethiops per se (Old Chem.), mercury…

A principle or mixture of principles extracted from various species of Eupatorium.

An instrument in which are combined the characteristic tones of the organ and various other instruments. [R.]

A principle, or mixture of principles, derived from various species of Euphorbia.

A limpid, oily liquid obtained by the destructive distillation of various vegetable and animal substances; -- specifically, an oil consisting largely of the higher hydrocarbons of the paraffin series. [Written also eupion.]