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The state or practice of having several wives at the same time; marriage to several wives. H. Spenser.

A mineral usually occurring in fibrous masses, of a brick-red color, being tinged with iron, and consisting chiefly of the sulphates of lime, magnesia, and soda.

Having many sides, as a solid body. Polyhedral angle, an angle bounded by three or more plane angles having a common vertex.

A polyscope, or multiplying glass.

Polyhedral.

One versed in various learning. [R.]

The Muse of lyric poetry.

A iodide having more than one atom of iodine in the molecule.

Talkativeness. [R.]

Garrulous; loquacious. [R.]

The condition of having more than two mammæ, or breasts.

Pertaining to polymathy; acquainted with many branches of learning.

One versed in many sciences; a person of various learning.

The knowledge of many arts and sciences; variety of learning. Johnson.

Having numerous facets; -- said of the compound eyes of insects and crustaceans.

Any one of two or more substances related to each other by polymerism; specifically, a substance produced from another substance by chemical polymerization. [Formerly also written polymere.]

th; thus, cyanic acid (CNOH), fulminic acid (C2N2O2H2), and cyanuric acid (C3N3O3H3), are polymeric with each other.

The state, quality, or relation of two or more polymeric substances.

The act or process of changing to a polymeric form; the condition resulting from such change.

To cause polymerization of; to produce polymers from; to increase the molecular weight of, without changing the atomic proportions; thus, certain acids polymerize aldehyde.