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Designating certain compounds of titanium in which that element has a lower valence as contrasted with titanic compounds.

kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity. 2 Pet. i. 5,6,7. I have a king's oath to the contrary. Shak. Numbers were crowded to death. Clarendon. Fate and the dooming gods are deaf to tears. Dryden. Go, buckle to the law. Dryden.

Specifically, the allowance of religious opinions and modes of worship in a state when contrary to, or different from, those of the established church or belief.

The state of healty tension or partial contraction of muscle fibers while at rest; tone; tonus.

Cylindrical with alternate swellings and contractions; having the surface covered with rounded prominences.

Any civil wrong or injury; a wrongful act (not involving a breach of contract) for which an action will lie; a form of action, in some parts of the United States, for a wrong or injury. Executor de son tort. See under Executor. -- Tort feasor (Law), a wrongdoer; a trespasser. Wharton.

A colloquial contraction of the other, and formerly a contraction for that other. See the Note under That, 2. The tothir that was crucifield with him. Wyclif(John xix. 32)

ost of the species are brilliantly colored with red, yellow, white, and black in striking contrast.

unt is not quantitatively determined in an analysis;-hence, in stating an analysis, often contracted to tr.

ity, progress, or freedom, as a net or shackle. [They] disdain the trammels of any sordid contract. Jeffrey.

An agreement so made; specifically, an agreement, league, or contract between two or more nations or sovereigns, formally signed by commissioners properly authorized, and solemnly ratified by the several sovereigns, or the supreme power of each state; an agreement between two or more independent states; as, a treaty of…

A hybrid whose parents differ by three pairs of contrasting Mendelian characters.

Of, pertaining to, or characterized by, trimorphism; -- contrasted with monomorphic, dimorphic, and polymorphic.

e same species of having three different shapes or proportions of corresponding parts; -- contrasted with polymorphism, and dimorphism. Heterogonous trimporphism (Bot.), that condition in which flowers of plants of the same species have three different lengths of stamens, short, medium, and long, the blossoms of one in…

mon name, not describing the structure and from which the structure cannot be deduced; -- contrasted with systematic name.

To contract; to draw together. [Obs.]

A contraction of it was.

A short, spastic contraction of the fibers or muscles; a simple muscular contraction; as, convulsive twitches; a twitch in the side.

Offensive to the sight; contrary to beauty; being of disagreeable or loathsome aspect; unsightly; repulsive; deformed. The ugly view of his deformed crimes. Spenser. Like the toad, ugly and venomous. Shak. O, I have passed a miserable night, So full of ugly sights, of ghastly dreams. Shak.

al. Those ultimate truths and those universal laws of thought which we can not rationally contradict. Coleridge.