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Not conformable; not lying in a parallel position; as, unconformable strata. -- Un`con*form"a*ble*ness, n. -- Un`con*form"a*bly, adv.

Want of parallelism between strata in contact.

n authorized habitual dress of officers and soldiers, but not full-dress uniform. Undress parade (Mil.), a substitute for dress parade, allowed in bad weather, the companies forming without arms, and the ceremony being shortened.

Not capable of being equaled or paralleled. [Obs.] Boyle.

es of the point on the curve can be expressed as rational algebraic functions of a single parameter th.

To deprive of happiness like that of paradise; to render unhappy. [R.] Young.

Having no paragon or equal; matchless; peerless. [R.] Your unparagoned mistress is dead. Shak.

Having no parallel, or equal; unequaled; unmatched. The unparalleled perseverance of the armies of the United States, under every suffering and discouragement, was little short of a miracle. Washington.

Amphibole resulting from the alternation of pyroxene by paramorphism. It is not uncommon in massive eruptive rocks.

The change of pyroxene to amphibole by paramorphism.

ct or process of whipping or stinging with nettles; -- sometimes used in the treatment of paralysis.

hich reduces to the form Math. Dict. -- Vanishing line (Persp.), the intersection of the parallel of any original plane and picture; one of the lines converging to the vanishing point. -- Vanishing point (Persp.), the point to which all parallel lines in the same plane tend in the representation. Gwilt. -- Vanishing…

etroleum, and consisting essentially of a mixture of several of the higher members of the paraffin series. It is used as an unguent, and for various purposes in the arts. See the Note under Petrolatum. [Written also vaselin.]

contain no chlorophyll, and live on organic matter. (Lichens are now believed to be fungi parasitic on included algæ.}

public. Macaulay took occasion to ventilate one of those starling, but not very profound, paradoxes. J. C. Shairp.

erally suspended from the edge of the projecting roof (see Verge, n., 4), and in position parallel to the gable wall. Called also bargeboard.

An extensive artificial division of the animal kingdom, including the parasitic worms, or helminths, together with the nemerteans, annelids, and allied groups. By some writers the branchiopods, the bryzoans, and the tunicates are also included. The name was used in a still wider sense by Linnæus and his followers.…

Having thickset tufts of parallel hairs, bristles, or branches.

The color green, represented in a drawing or engraving by parallel lines sloping downward toward the right.

A genus of parasitic shrubs, including the mistletoe of Europe.