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mmetry; proportional in parts; having its parts in due proportion as to dimensions; as, a symmetrical body or building.

Not symmetrical; wanting proportion; esp., not bilaterally symmetrical. Huxley.

Not having symmetry; asymmetrical; unsymmetrical.

Same as Monoclinic.

Not symmetrical; being without symmetry, as the parts of a flower when similar parts are of different size and shape, or when the parts of successive circles differ in number. See Symmetry.

Not symmetrically.

ical idea, or motive, rhythmically developed in consecutive single tones, so as to form a symmetrical and balanced whole, which may be sung by a single voice to the stanzas of a hymn or song, or even to plain prose, or played upon an instrument; a melody; a tune; an aria.

Not isometric; having unsymmetrical parts; -- said of crystals with three unequal axes. Dana.

One of the two halves of bilaterally symmetrical animals; one of any opposite symmetrical or homotypic parts in animals and plants.

number, and the third digit of each foot (corresponding to the middle finger in man) is asymmetrical and paired with the fourth digit, as in the hog, the sheep, and the ox; - - opposed to Perissodactyla.

Incommensurable; also, unsymmetrical. [Obs.] D. H. More.

Asymmetrical. [Obs.] Barrow.

e supposed to revolve; a line passing through a body or system around which the parts are symmetrically arranged.

re, causing delight in the beholder. Locke. The production of beauty by a multiplicity of symmetrical parts uniting in a consistent whole. Wordsworth. The old definition of beauty, in the Roman school, was, "multitude in unity;" and there is no doubt that such is the principle of beauty. Coleridge.

Blank window (Arch.), a depression in a wall of the size of a door or window, either for symmetrical effect, or for the more convenient insertion of a door or window at a future time, should it be needed. -- Blank indorsement (Law), an indorsement which omits the name of the person in whose favor it is made; it is us…

A class of Molluscoidea having a symmetrical bivalve shell, often attached by a fleshy peduncle.

c. See Catholic epistles, under Canholic. -- Canonical form (Math.), the simples or most symmetrical form to which all functions of the same class can be reduced without lose of generality. -- Canonical hours, certain stated times of the day, fixed by ecclesiastical laws, and appropriated to the offices of prayer and…

dalusite; -- called also macle. The tesselated apperance of a cross section is due to the symmetrical arrangement of impurities in the crystal.

Well-propotioned; symmetrical. [Poetic] Shak.

That which is required to supply a deficiency, or to complete a symmetrical whole. History is the complement of poetry. Sir J. Stephen.