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drawn from the other sources, with a strict caution, howewer, against anything light and riant. Burke.

Contrary; opposed; antagonistic; inconsistent; contradictory. [R.] The struggles of contrariant factions. Coleridge.

Contrarily. [Obs.]

iables and coefficients shall be equal to the old function multiplied by a factor. An invariant is a like function involving only the coefficients of the quantic.

A poison which occasions a persistent delirium, or mental aberration (as belladonna).

Intoxicating.

An invariable quantity; specifically, a function of the coefficients of one or more forms, which remains unaltered, when these undergo suitable linear transformations. J. J. Sylvester.

Exuberant in growth; rank; excessive; very abundant; as, a luxuriant growth of grass; luxuriant foliage. Prune the luxuriant, the uncouth refine. Pope. Luxuriant flower (Bot.), one in which the floral envelopes are overdeveloped at the expense of the essential organs.

In a luxuriant manner.

The leaves of a flower generally, especially when the calyx and corolla are not readily distinguished.

The perianth.

Having one degree of freedom or variability.

Changeable; changing; fickle. [Obs.] He is variant, he abit [abides] nowhere. Chaucer.

Partaking of two natures, as the perianth of some endogenous plants, where the outer surface is calycine, and the inner petaloid.

, Damaras, Bechuanas, and many tribes whose names begin with Aba-, Ama-, Ba-, Ma-, Wa-, variants of the Bantu plural personal prefix Aba-, as in Ba-ntu, or Aba-ntu, itself a combination of this prefix with the syllable -ntu, a person. -- Ban"tu, a.

A variant of Chieftain. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Variant of Clasp [Obs.] Chaucer.

A variant of Dan, a title of honor. [Obs.] Chaucer.

variant of Dere, v. t. & n. [Obs.]

Relating to a dialect; dialectical; as, a dialectical variant.