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The state or quality of being abnormal; variation; irregularity. Darwin.

Over or upon different parts of; through or over in various directions; here and there in; to and fro in; throughout. Lampoons . . . were handed about the coffeehouses. Macaulay. Roving still about the world. Milton.

One who abuses [in the various senses of the verb].

ving the style spring from the base, instead of from the apex, as is the case in certain ovaries.

Methyl ketol; also, any of various homologues of the same.

That variety of either the Bessemer or the open-hearth process in which the converter or hearth is lined with acid, that is, highly siliceous, material. Opposed to basic process.

An instrument for measuring and recording the variations in the actinic or chemical force of rays of light. Nichol.

A bright green variety of amphibole occurring usually in fibrous or columnar masses.

imbleness; agility; vigorous action or operation; energy; active force; as, an increasing variety of human activities. "The activity of toil." Palfrey.

The act of adducing or bringing forward. An adduction of facts gathered from various quarters. I. Taylor.

A disease endemic in various parts of tropical Asia, due to a specific microörganism which produces chronic ulcers on the limbs. It is often fatal. Called also Cochin China ulcer, Persian ulcer, tropical ulcer, etc.

iving heat. -- Ad`i*a*bat`ic*al*ly, adv. Adiabatic line or curve, a curve exhibiting the variations of pressure and volume of a fluid when it expands without either receiving or giving out heat. Rankine.

A cultivated variety of the Asiatic gram, now introduced into the United States.

A transparent or translucent variety of common feldspar, or orthoclase, which often shows pearly opalescent reflections; -- called by lapidaries moonstone.

The observation of the state and variations of the atmosphere.

into images by the Chinese, and hence called figure stone, and pagodite. It is probably a variety of pinite.

A semipellucid, uncrystallized variety of quartz, presenting various tints in the same specimen. Its colors are delicately arranged in stripes or bands, or blended in clouds.

Applied to a kind of variegated glass beads of ancient manufacture; as, aggry beads are found in Ashantee and Fantee in Africa.

isturb or excite; to perturb; as, he was greatly agitated. The mind of man is agitated by various passions. Johnson.

those places where the magnetic needle points to the true north; the line of no magnetic variation. There is one such line in the Western hemisphere, and another in the Eastern hemisphere.