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Clouded with indistinct color markings, as an animal.

An act or instance of negligence or carelessness. remarking his beauties, ... I must also point out his negligences and defects. Blair.

The act of noting, remarking, or observing; observation by the senses or intellect; cognizance; note. How ready is envy to mingle with the notices we take of other persons ! I. Watts.

tts. Notion, again, signifies either the act of apprehending, signalizing, that is, the remarking or taking note of, the various notes, marks, or characters of an object which its qualities afford, or the result of that act. Sir W. Hamilton.

s of ichneumon (Herpestes nyula). Its fur is beautifully variegated by closely set zigzag markings.

Scarcely distinct; -- applied to the markings of insects.

An instrument for marking or laying off the outlines of teeth of gear wheels.

Cloth treated with oil or paint, and used for marking garments, covering flooors, etc.

The marking or numbering of the pages of a book.

.), a common American freshwater tortoise (Chrysemys picta), having bright red and yellow markings beneath.

side, like the body of a violin; fiddle-shaped; as, a panduriform leaf; panduriform color markings of an animal.

One of the imaginary circles on the surface of the earth, parallel to the equator, marking the latitude; also, the corresponding line on a globe or map.

One of the pins used for marking points on a cribbage board.

A pointed pale, used in marking fences.

, the hard outer wood of the cocoa palm; -- so called because, when cut horizontally, the markings of the wood resemble the quills of a porcupine.

A red pigment used in marking sheep, and in some mechanical processes; ruddle. "A ruddle of rouge." Thackeray.

Formed of, or arranged like, rays or radii; having parts or markings diverging, like radii, from a common center or axis; as, a radiated structure; a radiated group of crystals.

Radiating organs, or color-markings, of the radiates.

ter day, a day that is fortunate or auspicious; -- so called in allusion to the custom of marking holy days, or saints' days, in the old calendars with red letters.

Act of remarking or attentively noticing; notice or observation. The cause, though worth the search, may yet elude Conjecture and remark, however shrewd. Cowper.