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A colorless liquid hydrocarbon, C7H14, of the ethylene series; also, any one of its isomers. Called also heptene.

Having styles of two or more distinct forms or lengths. Darwin.

A hexastyle portico or temple.

A colorless, liquid hydrocarbon, C6H12, of the ethylene series, produced artificially, and found as a natural product of distillation of certain coals; also, any one several isomers of hexylene proper. Called also hexene.

Having only one form of pistils; -- said of the flowers of some plants. Darwin.

Destitute of honey. Shak.

Same as Hylæosaur.

Resting upon columns; constructed by means of columns; -- especially applied to the great hall at Karnak.

To style. [Obs.] Crashaw.

ng joy; unenjoyable. -- Joy"less*ly, adv. -- Joy"less*ness, n. With downcast eyes the joyless victor sat. Dryden. Youth and health and war are joyless to him. Addison. [He] pining for the lass, Is joyless of the grove, and spurns the growing grass. Dryden.

A Berber, as in Algiers or Tunis. See Berber.

A game; ninepins. [Prov Eng.] Carew.

A variety of the boomerang.

See Melene.

A salt of mesitylenic acid.

A colorless, fragrant liquid, C6H3(CH3)3, of the benzene series of hydrocarbons, obtained by distilling acetone with sulphuric acid. -- Me*sit`y*len"ic, a.

That variety of xylene, or dimethyl benzene, in which the two methyl groups occupy the meta position with reference to each other. It is a colorless inf

regarded as an essential residue and component of certain derivatives of methane; as, methylene bromide, CH2Br2; -- formerly called also methene. Methylene blue (Chem.), an artificial dyestuff consisting of a complex sulphur derivative of diphenyl amine; -- called also pure blue.

An opening in the membranes surrounding the ovum, by which nutrition is assisted and the entrance of the spermatozoa permitted.

Destitute of money; penniless; impecunious. Swift.