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Having perfect and staminate flowers on different plants. -- An`dro*di*o"cism, -di*e"cism (#), n.

The difference of direction of two lines. In the lines meet, the point of meeting is the vertex of the angle.

etimes intermediate groupings, all in regular subordination, but variously arranged by different writers.

Of a different tincture from the animal itself; -- said of the eyes of a rapacious animal. Brande & C.

Having unequal stamens; having stamens different in number from the petals.

Not isotropic; having different properties in different directions; thus, crystals of the isometric system are optically isotropic, but all other crystals are anisotropic.

Oaths . . . in some sense almost annuals; . . . and I myself can remember about forty different sets. Swift.

A space contained between the circumferences of two circles, one within the other.

g the beak in length, while those of the female Culex are very short. They also assume different positions when resting, Culex usually holding the body parallel to the surface on which it rests and keeping the head and beak bent at an angle, while Anopheles holds the body at an angle with the surface and the head and b…

Not the same; different. He winks, and turns his lips another way. Shak.

A figure which consists in repeating the same word in a different sense; as, Learn some craft when young, that when old you may live without craft.

Pertaining to anthology; consisting of beautiful extracts from different authors, especially the poets. He published a geographical and anthological description of all empires and kingdoms . . . in this terrestrial globe. Wood.

ranch of anthropology which treats of the actual distribution of the human race in its different divisions, as distinguished by physical character, language, institutions, and customs, in contradistinction to ethnography, which treats historically of the origin and filiation of races and nations. P. Cyc.…

Measurement of the height and other dimensions of human beings, especially at different ages, or in different races, occupations, etc. Dunglison.

Opposition of one law or rule to another law or rule. Different commentators have deduced from it the very opposite doctrines. In some instances this apparent antinomy is doubtful. De Quincey.

The inhabitants of the earth, living on different sides of the equator, whose shadows at noon are cast in opposite directions. The inhabitants of the north and south temperate zones are always Antiscians. Brande & C.

One indifferently, out of an indefinite number; one indefinitely, whosoever or whatsoever it may be.

Void of feeling; not susceptible of deep emotion; passionless; indifferent.

e body or the mind. As applied to the mind, it is a calmness, indolence, or state of indifference, incapable of being ruffled or roused to active interest or exertion by pleasure, pain, or passion. "The apathy of despair." Macaulay. A certain apathy or sluggishness in his nature which led him . . . to leave events to t…

Having two or more parts of different curvatures, so combined as to remove spherical aberration; -- said of a lens. Aplanatic focus of a lens (Opt.), the point or focus from which rays diverging pass the lens without spherical aberration. In certain forms of lenses there are two such foci; and it is by taking advantage…