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Relating to, or characterized by, heterotaxy.

Variation in arrangement from that existing in a normal form; heterogenous arrangement or structure, as, in botany, the deviation in position of the organs of a plant, from the ordinary or typical arrangement.

A deviation from the natural position; -- a term applied in the case of organs or growths which are abnormal in situation.

A division of ciliated Infusoria, having fine cilia all over the body, and a circle of larger ones around the anterior end.

Having the embryo or ovule oblique or transverse to the funiculus; amphitropous. Gray.

One who makes much or overmuch of æsthetics. [Recent]

An officer who presided over the great public games in Greece.

See Behight. [Obs.] Chaucer.

o be introduced into the bladder through the urethra to draw off the urine. Eustachian catheter. See under Eustachian. -- Prostatic catheter, one adapted for passing an enlarged prostate.

The operation of introducing a catheter.

To operate on with a catheter. Dunglison.

Marked or measured by crotchets; having musical notation. Harmar (1587).

Same as Æsthete, Æsthetic, Æsthetical, Æsthetics, etc.

An accountant; under Constantine, an officer of the empire; a receiver of revenue; an administrator of a department.

A large heavy knife resembling a broadsword, often two or three feet in length, -- used by the inhabitants of Spanish America as a hatchet to cut their way through thickets, and for various other purposes. J. Stevens.

A lawgiver. [R.]

Of or pertaining to the Oligochæta.

Same as Perichæth.

A female prophet.

To shoot. [Obs.] Chaucer.