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A small part of a different color from the main part, or from the ground upon which it is; as, the spots of a leopard; the spots on a playing card.

ing and the pilchard; -- called also garvie. The name is also applied to small herring of different kinds.

A natural spot of a color different from the gound. Swift trouts, diversified with crimson stains. Pope.

One step of a series for ascending or descending to a different level; -- commonly applied to those within a building.

having a bulb in the middle, used for finding the number of drops in equal quantities of different liquids. See Pipette. Sir D. Brewster.

Make; cast; form; character; as, a man of the same stamp, or of a different stamp. A soldier of this season's stamp. Shak.

A shaft, smaller and shorter than the principal one, joining different levels.

inguished by a more special name; -- chiefly applied to sales of the same property to two different persons, or selling that for one's own which belongs to another, etc. Erskine.

The lower part or basement of a building or pedestal; -- used loosely for several different forms of basement.

; descent; family. He is of a noble strain. Shak. With animals and plants a cross between different varieties, or between individuals of the same variety but of another strain, gives vigor and fertility to the offspring. Darwin.

A line or long mark of a different color from the ground; a stripe; a vein. What mean those colored streaks in heaven Milton.

A line, or long, narrow division of anything of a different color or structure from the ground; hence, any linear variation of color or structure; as, a stripe, or streak, of red on a green ground; a raised stripe.

Having stripes of different colors; streaked. Striped bass. (Zoöl.) See under Bass. -- Striped maple (Bot.), a slender American tree (Acer Pennsylvanicum) with finely striped bark. Called also striped dogwood, and moosewood. -- Striped mullet. (Zoöl.) See under Mullet, 2. -- Striped snake (Zoöl.), the garter snake.…

Miscellaneous; composed of different kinds.

Manner of organization; the arrangement of the different tissues or parts of animal and vegetable organisms; as, organic structure, or the structure of animals and plants; cellular structure.

Having a definite organic structure; showing differentiation of parts. The passage from a structureless state to a structured state is itself a vital process. H. Spencer.

not be justified in calling Galileo and Napier blockheads because they never heard of the differential calculus. Macaulay.

That which is suggested; an intimation; an insinuation; a hint; a different proposal or mention; also, formerly, a secret incitement; temptation. Why do I yield to that suggestion Shak.

Many different or small things; sundry things.

A raised shelf or stand on the back of an altar, on which different objects can be placed; a predella or gradino.