n. [ Heb. ariël, perh. confused with E. aërial. ] In the Cabala, a water spirit; in later folklore, a light and graceful spirit of the air. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

☞ In Zoology, ariel is used adjectively of certain birds noted for their graceful flight; as, the ariel toucan; the ariel petrel. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n., or /mhw>. [ Ar. aryil, ayyil, stag. ] (Zool.) (a) A variety of the gazelle (Antilope dorcas, or Gazella, dorcas), found in Arabia and adjacent countries. (b) A squirrel-like Australian marsupial, a species of Petaurus. (c) A beautiful Brazilian toucan Ramphastos ariel). [ 1913 Webster ]

‖ prop. n. [ L. ] 1. (Astron.) (a) The Ram; the first of the twelve signs in the zodiac, which the sun enters at the vernal equinox, about the 21st of March. (b) A constellation west of Taurus, drawn on the celestial globe in the figure of a ram. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Rom. Antiq.) A battering-ram. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ L. arietatus, p. p. of arietare, fr. aries ram. ] To butt, as a ram. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. arietatio. ] 1. The act of butting like a ram; act of using a battering-ram. [ Obs. ] Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Act of striking or conflicting. [ R. ] Glanvill. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ ‖ } n. [ It. arietta, dim. of aria; F. ariette. ] (Mus.) A short aria, or air. “A military ariette.” Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

p. p. Wearied. [ Poetic ] [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. pl. (Zool.) Feathers connecting the under surface of the wing and the body, and concealed by the closed wing. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ F. ] A vessel for holding hot water in which another vessel may be heated without scorching its contents; -- used for warming or preparing food or pharmaceutical preparations. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Pref. bi- + parietal. ] (Anat.) Of or pertaining to the diameter of the cranium, from one parietal fossa to the other. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ L., decay. ] (Med.) Ulceration of bone; a process in which bone disintegrates and is carried away piecemeal, as distinguished from necrosis, in which it dies in masses. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. all the people living at the same time or of approximately the same age.
Syn. -- coevals, generation. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. pl. [ Pl. of Contrary, n. ] (Logic) Propositions which directly and destructively contradict each other, but of which the falsehood of one does not establish the truth of the other. [ 1913 Webster ]

If two universals differ in quality, they are contraries; as, every vine is a tree; no vine is a tree. These can never be both true together; but they may be both false. I. Watts. [ 1913 Webster ]

pos>n.; pl. Contrarieties [ L. contrarietas: cf. F. contrariété. ] 1. The state or quality of being contrary; opposition; repugnance; disagreement; antagonism. [ 1913 Webster ]

There is a contrariety between those things that conscience inclines to, and those that entertain the senses. South. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Something which is contrary to, or inconsistent with, something else; an inconsistency. [ 1913 Webster ]

How can these contrarieties agree? Shak.

Syn. -- Inconsistency; discrepancy; repugnance. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Same as Deary. Dickens. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) See Harrier. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Anat.) Between the parietal bones or cartilages; as, the interparietal suture. -- n. The interparietal bone or cartilage. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Situated or occurring within an inclosure; shut off from public sight; private; secluded; retired. [ 1913 Webster ]

I have no Turkish proclivities, and I do not think that, after all, impaling is preferable as a mode of capital punishment to intraparietal hanging. Rolleston. [ 1913 Webster ]

interj. Marry. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. mariette, prop. dim. of Marie Mary. ] (Bot.) A kind of bellflower, Companula Trachelium, once called Viola Mariana; but it is not a violet. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having a nectary. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. omniparens all-producing; omnis all + parere to bring forth. ] Producing or bringing forth all things; all-producing. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. [ From NL. Onagra an old scientific name of the evening primrose (Œnothera), fr. Gr. 'ona`gra a kind of plant; of uncertain origin. ] (Bot.) Pertaining to, or resembling, a natural order of plants (Onagraceae or Onagrarieae), which includes the fuchsia, the willow-herb (Epilobium), and the evening primrose (Œnothera). [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n.; pl. Parietes [ See Parietes. ] (Zool.) The triangular middle part of each segment of the shell of a barnacle. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. parietalis, fr. paries, -ietis, a wall: cf. F. pariétal. Cf. Parietary, Pellitory. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. Of or pertaining to a wall; hence, pertaining to buildings or the care of them. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Resident within the walls or buildings of a college. [ 1913 Webster ]

At Harvard College, the officers resident within the college walls constitute a permanent standing committee, called the Parietal Committee. B. H. Hall (1856). [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Anat.) (a) Of or pertaining to the parietes. (b) Of, pertaining to, or in the region of, the parietal bones, which form the upper and middle part of the cranium, between the frontals and occipitals. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Bot.) Attached to the main wall of the ovary, and not to the axis; -- said of a placenta. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. (Anat.) One of the parietal bones. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Zool.) One of the special scales, or plates, covering the back of the head in certain reptiles and fishes. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. See Parietal, 2. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. parietaria, fr. parietarius parietal. Cf. Pellitory, Parietal. ] (Bot.) Any one of several species of Parietaria. See 1st Pellitory. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ L. paries a wall. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. (Anat.) The walls of a cavity or an organ; as, the abdominal parietes; the parietes of the cranium. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Bot.) The sides of an ovary or of a capsule. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Chem.) Pertaining to, or designating, an acid found in the lichen Parmelia parietina, and called also chrysophanic acid. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. parietinus parietal: cf. parietinae ruined walls. ] A piece of a fallen wall; a ruin. [ Obs. ] Burton. [ 1913 Webster ]

(Anat.) A combining form used to indicate connection with, or relation to, the parietal bones or the parietal segment of the skull; as, the parieto-mastoid suture. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Receiving a salary; paid by a salary; having a salary attached; as, a salaried officer; a salaried office. [ 1913 Webster ]

(Geol.) The formation belonging to the middle of the three subdivisions of the Corniferous period in the American Devonian system; -- so called from Schoharie, in New York, where it occurs. See the Chart of Geology. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state of being solitary; solitariness. [ Obs. ] Cudworth. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. -ties A subordinate variety, or a division of a variety. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Not wearied; not fatigued or tired; hence, persistent; not tiring or wearying; indefatigable. -- Un*wea"ried*ly, adv. -- Un*wea"ried*ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Changed; altered; various; diversified; as, a varied experience; varied interests; varied scenery. -- Va"ried*ly, adv. [1913 Webster]

The varied fields of science, ever new. Cowper. [1913 Webster]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Variegated p. pr. & vb. n. Variegating. ] [ L. variegatus, p. p. of variegare to variegate; varius various + agere to move, make. See Various, and Agent. ] To diversify in external appearance; to mark with different colors; to dapple; to streak; as, to variegate a floor with marble of different colors. [ 1913 Webster ]

The shells are filled with a white spar, which variegates and adds to the beauty of the stone. Woodward. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having marks or patches of different colors; as, variegated leaves, or flowers. [ 1913 Webster ]

Ladies like variegated tulips show. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of variegating or diversifying, or the state of being diversified, by different colors; diversity of colors. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From Vary. ] A wanderer; one who strays in search of variety. [ Poetic ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Pious variers from the church. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to a variety; characterizing a variety; constituting a variety, in distinction from an individual or species. [ 1913 Webster ]

Perplexed in determining what differences to consider as specific, and what as varietal. Darwin. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ L. ] A variety; -- used in giving scientific names, and often abbreviated to var. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Varieties [ L. varietas: cf. F. variété. See Various. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. The quality or state of being various; intermixture or succession of different things; diversity; multifariousness. [ 1913 Webster ]

Variety is nothing else but a continued novelty. South. [ 1913 Webster ]

The variety of colors depends upon the composition of light. Sir I. Newton. [ 1913 Webster ]

For earth hath this variety from heaven. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

There is a variety in the tempers of good men. Atterbury. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. That which is various. Specifically: -- [ 1913 Webster ]

(a) A number or collection of different things; a varied assortment; as, a variety of cottons and silks. [ 1913 Webster ]

He . . . wants more time to do that variety of good which his soul thirsts after. Law. [ 1913 Webster ]

(b) Something varying or differing from others of the same general kind; one of a number of things that are akin; a sort; as, varieties of wood, land, rocks, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

(c) (Biol.) An individual, or group of individuals, of a species differing from the rest in some one or more of the characteristics typical of the species, and capable either of perpetuating itself for a period, or of being perpetuated by artificial means; hence, a subdivision, or peculiar form, of a species. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Varieties usually differ from species in that any two, however unlike, will generally propagate indefinitely (unless they are in their nature unfertile, as some varieties of rose and other cultivated plants); in being a result of climate, food, or other extrinsic conditions or influences, but generally by a sudden, rather than a gradual, development; and in tending in many cases to lose their distinctive peculiarities when the individuals are left to a state of nature, and especially if restored to the conditions that are natural to typical individuals of the species. Many varieties of domesticated animals and of cultivated plants have been directly produced by man. [ 1913 Webster ]

(d) In inorganic nature, one of those forms in which a species may occur, which differ in minor characteristics of structure, color, purity of composition, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ These may be viewed as variations from the typical species in its most perfect and purest form, or, as is more commonly the case, all the forms, including the latter, may rank as Varieties. Thus, the sapphire is a blue variety, and the ruby a red variety, of corundum; again, calcite has many Varieties differing in form and structure, as Iceland spar, dogtooth spar, satin spar, and also others characterized by the presence of small quantities of magnesia, iron, manganese, etc. Still again, there are varieties of granite differing in structure, as graphic granite, porphyritic granite, and other varieties differing in composition, as albitic granite, hornblendic, or syenitic, granite, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Theaters) Such entertainment as in given in variety shows; the production of, or performance in, variety shows. [ Cant ] [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

Geographical variety (Biol.), a variety of any species which is coincident with a geographical region, and is usually dependent upon, or caused by, peculiarities of climate. --
Variety hybrid (Biol.), a cross between two individuals of different varieties of the same species; a mongrel. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Diversity; difference; kind. -- Variety, Diversity. A man has a variety of employments when he does many things which are not a mere repetition of the same act; he has a diversity of employments when the several acts performed are unlike each other, that is, diverse. In most cases, where there is variety there will be more or less of diversity, but not always. One who sells railroad tickets performs a great variety of acts in a day, while there is but little diversity in his employment. [ 1913 Webster ]

All sorts are here that all the earth yields!
Variety without end. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

But see in all corporeal nature's scene,
What changes, what diversities, have been! Blackmore. [ 1913 Webster ]

. A stage entertainment, live or televised, of successive separate performances, usually songs, dances, acrobatic feats, dramatic sketches, exhibitions of trained animals, or any specialties. When performed live in a theater, it was often called a vaudeville show, but when television became a dominant form of entertainment live vaudeville performances almost completely ceased. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. +PJC ]

. a retail store selling a wide variety of items, especially of low price, as in a five and ten. [ PJC ]