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t symmetrical; being without symmetry, as the parts of a flower when similar parts are of different size and shape, or when the parts of successive circles differ in number. See Symmetry.

A vessel of various forms, usually a vase furnished with a foot or pedestal, employed for different purposes, as for holding liquids, for ornamental uses, for preserving the ashes of the dead after cremation, and anciently for holding lots to be drawn. A rustic, digging in the ground by Padua, found an urn, or earthen…

ustacean, especially one of the posterior ones, which are often larger than the rest, and different in structure, and are used chiefly in locomotion. See Illust. of Crustacea, and Stomapoda.

The time, fixed variously by the usage between different countries, when a bill of exchange is payable; as, a bill drawn on London at one usance, or at double usance.

Born of the same mother, but by a different father. Walter Pope, uterine brother to Dr. Joh. WilkiWood.

The place of meeting of two slopes of a roof, which have their plates running in different directions, and form on the plan a reëntrant angle.

Varying in from, character, or the like; variable; different; diverse.

To alter; to make different; to vary.

g; modification; alternation; mutation; diversity; deviation; as, a variation of color in different lights; a variation in size; variation of language. The essences of things are conceived not capable of any such variation. Locke.

To diversify in external appearance; to mark with different colors; to dapple; to streak; as, to variegate a floor with marble of different colors. The shells are filled with a white spar, which variegates and adds to the beauty of the stone. Woodward.

Having marks or patches of different colors; as, variegated leaves, or flowers. Ladies like variegated tulips show. Pope.

The act of variegating or diversifying, or the state of being diversified, by different colors; diversity of colors.

The quality or state of being various; intermixture or succession of different things; diversity; multifariousness. Variety is nothing else but a continued novelty. South. The variety of colors depends upon the composition of light. Sir I. Newton. For earth this variety from heaven. Milton. There is a variety in the te…

Having different shapes or forms.

Formed with different shapes; having various forms; variform.

To make different; to vary; to variegate. [R.] Sylvester.

Containing notes by different persons; -- applied to a publication; as, a variorum edition of a book.

Different; diverse; several; manifold; as, men of various names; various occupations; various colors. So many and so various laws are given. Milton. A wit as various, gay, grave, sage, or wild. Byron.

In various or different ways.

An imperfection on the inside of the hind leg in horses, different from a curb, but at the same height, and frequently injuring the sale of the animal by growing to an unsightly size. Craig.