Variegatae 
Variegatae ( va ri-c-^i'tc.), ./>'. [XL. ( 
IHfiL'), foil. pi. of 1,1,. riinn/iiliis : -,co i-in-ni/iilt. \ 
An important group "^ "octuid nioths. belong- 
ing to tin' division t t >iinilrijiil:i; and incliidin;; 
eight of (InencV's families. I lie most important 
lieing till' I'luxiitlir. liny Iliivr the tly Blllllll (ir "f 
moderate sixe, tlie proboscis lonk' or iiiilcnitc, p.ilpi well 
ti-vrlnpcil, the fort- \VJNL'* HK-tallir .i with A silky In -ti i, 
or with 'In- iimtT lior.lrr niiKiiliir or denticulate, and the 
hintl wind's ol one color, ocntsiiinally pale or yellow with 
a 'lark Ixinirr. Sri- cut inulci I'luiria. 
variegate (va'ri-e-gat), v. t.; pret. and pp. va- 
riii/ii/id, ppr. rarii'iiiitiinj. [= Sp, Pg. variega- 
</<>, < 1,1,. i-iirii-i/iilim, pp. of rarirf/are, make of 
various sorts or colors, < I,, mriiix, various (see 
rarioax), + ii/ji-n-, make, do.] To diversify by 
means of different tints or lines; murk with 
different colors in irregular patches; spot, 
streak, dapple, etc. : as. to variegate a floor with 
marble of different colors. 
Each particular thing is variegated, or wean a mottled 
coat. Bacon, Fable of Pan. 
variegated (vii'ri-e-ga-ted), p. a. Varied in col- 
or; irregularly marked with different colors. 
Variegated copper, same as barnitt. Variegated 
monkey, the done, Xrtnnmtithecu* nenuewt. Variegat- 
ed pebbleware. Hee peMeicare. - Variegated sand- 
stone. Same as iVew Red Samlntoite (which sec, un- 
der tandtfone). Variegated Sheldrake, Tailnrna varie- 
ffata.- Variegated sole, s nfes.- Variegated spi- 
der-monkey, Atrle* ramffahm. Variegated tanager, 
thrush, etc. .See the nouns. 
variegation (va'ri-e-ga'shon), n. [= Pg. va- 
nci/iii-iiii : as nn-iii/uli' + -inn.] 1. Varied col- 
oration ; the conjunction of various colors or 
color-marks; party-coloration. 2. In hot. : (a) 
The conjunction of two or more colors in the 
petals, leaves, and other parts of plants. (6) A 
condition of plants in which the leaves become 
partially white or of a very light color, from 
suppression or modification of the chlorophyl. 
Plants showing this unnatural condition may be otherwise 
quite healthy, and are often prized on account of their 
peculiar appearance. The cause is not well known. It 
sometimes occurs in a single branch of a tree, and may 
be thence propagated by grafting. As a permanent and 
often congenital peculiarity It is to be distinguished from 
ehlorontt (which compare). 
variegator (va'n-e-ga-tor), n. [< variegate + 
-or 1 .} One who or that which variegates. 
varier (va'ri-er), . JX vary + -er-.] One who 
varies ; one who deviates. 
Pious variers from the church. Tennyson, Sea Dreams. 
varietal (va-ri'e-tal), a. [< vnriet-y + -al.] In 
biol., having the character of a zoological or 
botanical variety; subspecific, or of the char- 
acter of a subspecies; racial, with reference 
to geographical variation; of or pertaining to 
varieties ; variational : as, varietal characters ; 
varietal differences or distinctions. See varia- 
bility, 2, variation, 8, and variety, 6. 
varietally (va-ri'e-tal-i), adv. In biol., in a 
varietal manner or relation ; as a variety; to a 
varietal extent only; sulispecifically. J. W. 
Dawson, Nature and the Bible, p. 174. 
variety (va-ri'e-ti), n. ; pi. varieties (-tiz). [Ear- 
ly mod. E. also varietie, varicte; < OF. varietc, 
P. variiti = Sp. variedad = Pg. varicdade = It. 
varittd, < L. varieta(t-)s, difference, diversity, 
< varius, different, various: see various.] 1. 
The state or character of being varied or va- 
rious; intermixture of different things, or of 
things different in form, or a succession of dif- 
ferent things; diversity; multifariousness; 
absence of monotony or uniformity; dissimili- 
tude. 
Their Oathes (especially of their Emperors) are of 
many cuts, and varietie of fashion. 
Parctias, Pilgrimage, p. 295. 
Variety I ask not ; give me One 
To live perpetually upon. 
COM*")/. The Mistress, Resolved to be Beloved, I. 
Variety 's the very spice of life, 
That gives it all its flavor. 
Cowper, Task, ii. 008. 
2. Exhibition of different characteristics by 
one individual; many-sidedness; versatility. 
Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale 
Her infinite variety ; other women cloy 
The appetites they feed. Shale.. A.andC.,ii.2.241. 
3f. Variation; deviation; change. 
Hee also declared certeyne thynges as concerninge the 
oariete of the northe pole. 
Peter Martyr (tr. in Eden's First Books on America, ed. 
[Arber, p. 90X 
Immouable, no way obnoxious to varietie or change. 
Heywood, Hierarchy of Angels, p. 95. 
4. A collection of different things; a varied 
assortment. 
Two Crucifixes of inestimable worth, beset with won- 
derful variety of precious stones, as Carbuncles, Rubies, 
Diamonds. Coryat, Crudities, I. 45. 
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5. Something differing from others of the 
same general kind; one of ninny things which 
agree in I heir general features; a sort ; a kind: 
;is. ni i -i, In .1 of rock, of wood, of land, of soil; to 
prefer one /./</// ,,f cloth to another. 6. In 
/mi/., with special reference to classification : 
(a) A subspecies; a subdivision of a species; 
an individual animal or plant which differs, or 
col lectively those individuals which differ, from 
the rest of its or their species, in certain r< g- 
ni/.able particulars which are transmissible, 
and constant to a degree, yet which are not 
specifically distinctive, since they intergrade 
with the characters of other members of the 
same species; a race, especially a climatic or 
geographical race which arises without man's 
interference. See species, 5. As the biological con- 
ception of species excludes the notion of special creation, 
or of any original fixation of specific distinctions, so the 
same conception regards varieties as simply nascent spe- 
cies which may or may not be established ; if established, 
varieties have become specie* In the process, as soon as 
the steps of that process axe obliterated. A variety has 
In itself the making of a species, and all species are 
supposed to have thus been made. The distinction 
being always in degree only, and never in kind, the actual 
recognition of both varieties and species for the pur- 
poses of classification, nomenclature, and description is 
largely a matter of tact and experience, tteetrinomialitin. 
(b) A race, as of cultivated plants or domestic 
animals; a stock; a strain; a sport; a breed: 
a general terra, covering all the modifications 
which may be impressed upon animals and 
plants by artificial selection. See the more dis- 
tinctive words, especially race, n., 5 (6). Varie- 
ties of this grade seldom reach the permanence of those 
attributed to natural selection, and tend to revert if 
left to themselves, though the actual differences may be 
greater than those marking natural varieties. (See Dyo- 
dus.) In like manner the term variety is applied to itior- 
ganic substances of the same kind which are susceptible 
of claasincation, to note differences in color, structure, 
crystallization, and the like, all the varieties being refer- 
able to some one species which is assumed as the typically 
perfect standard : as, varieties of quartz or of diamond. 
>.-.- M, AX,,.., /,,. Climatic variety,:! n;inn:.i v.-ni.-u ,,i 
any species produced by climatic influences, or specially af- 
fected by such influences, or regarded with particular ref- 
erence to climate. As climate itself is largely a matter 
of geography, a climatic variety is almost necessarily a 
geographical variety, and the terms are interchangeable. 
See below. Geographical variety, a natural variety 
of any species whose range of distribution Is coincident 
with a given geographical region, and whose varietal pe- 
culiarities have been caused by, or are dependent for their 
perpetuity upon, local influences, especially climate ; a 
climatic variety ; a local race. Animals and plants which 
have a wide geographical distribution are almost always 
found to run into geographical races, which may be so 
strongly marked that there is great difference of opinion 
among naturalists respecting their full specific or only 
varietal valuation. The principal exceptions are in those 
formswhose individuals may be wide-ranging, through un- 
usual powers of locomotion, as those birds which perform 
extensive annnal migrations, and are therefore not con- 
tinually subjected to modifying local Influences. Geo- 
graphical variation, under any given degree of climatic 
difference, is strongly favored by insulation, or anything 
which tends to a sort of natural in-and-in breeding of com- 
paratively few individuals, as is well Illustrated in the 
fauna and flora of islands, where geographical varieties 
tend to develop speedily into species distinct from those 
of neighboring islands. Mountain-ranges and desert areas 
always develop a fauna and flora of a fades peculiar to 
themselves. The main climatic factors In the evolution 
of geographical varieties are relative temperature and 
relative humidity. Variety hybrid, a mongrel resulting 
from crossing individuals of opposite sexes of different 
varieties of the same species. They are much more nu- 
merous than hybrids between different species, and are 
usually very easy to bring about with proper selection of 
the stocks from which to breed. They are also usually fer- 
tile, which as a rule is not the case with the progeny of 
thoroughly distinct species. 
variety-planer (va-ri'e-ti-pla'ner), n. See 
molding-machine, 1. 
variety-shpw ( va-ri'e-ti-sho), n . An entertain- 
ment consisting of dances, songs, negro-min- 
strelsy, gymnastics, or specialties of any kind, 
sometimes including farces or short sketches 
written to exhibit the accomplishments of the 
company. 
variety-theater (va-rj'e-ti-the'a-ter), * A 
theater devoted to variety-shows. 
variform (va'ri-fonn), a. [= It. variformt, < 
L. varius, various, + forma, form.] Varied 
in form; having different shapes; diversi- 
form. 
variformed (va'ri-f6rmd), a. [< variform + 
-ed 2 .] Same as variform. 
varify (va'ri-fi), v. t.; pret. and pp. ratified, 
ppr. varifyinff. [< L. varius, various, -I- -ficarc, 
< facere, make, do (see -fy).] To diversify; 
variegate ; color variously. [Rare.] 
May Is seen, 
Suiting the Lawns in all her pomp and pride 
Of liuely Colours, louely varijied. 
Sylvester, tr. of Du Bartas's Weeks, 11., The Magnificence. 
variola (va-ri'o-la), i. [= F. variole = Sp. n- 
ruela, < ML. variola, also variolas, smallpox, < L. 
varioloid 
1-iirin-. various. spotted : si-. MffOMI ] 1. Small- 
pox; a specific contagions disease cluiractcr- 
i/.eil 1 >y an erupt ion of papules, In-coming \ 
nlar and then pustular, and attended l>y high 
fever, racking pains in the head and spine, and 
severe constitutional disturbance. TI>, crnpiin 
In Its vesicular stage Is umhlllcatod, and It Is apt to leave 
a number i'f mim-li-li ik-preued tears, the pita r pock- 
marks. See nnalliK'X 
2. [<<'/>.} [NL. (Swainson, IHili)).] A ..!, u~ ..' 
fishes Variola confluens, discrete, baamorrha- 
glca. Same as confluent, ilixrrcte, hfinnrrhatjie rmalti*'j 
Bee tmaUptac. Variola inserta, n !-m:ill|>"\ i>i<"hn<<i 
by Inoculation. Variola ovlna, nheep-pox. 
variolar (yf-rl'^-ljr), ". [< rnrmin + -nr :t .] 
Same ;i-. i-iirinlimn. 
Variolaria (va"ri-o-la'ri-ii), w. [NL., so called 
because the shields of these plants resemble 
the eruptive spots of smallpox ; < MI., rurinln, 
smallpox: see variola.] An old pseudogenus 
of lichens, the species of which are variously 
disposed. 
variolarine (va'ri-o-la'rin),n. [< I'nrinliiriii + 
-mi '.] In lint., of or pertaining to the genus 
I'nii'ilaria; pustulate. 
variolarioid(va'ri-o-la'ri-oid),a. [< Variohin.t 
+ -oirf.] In hot,, resembling or pertaining to 
the genus f'ariolaria. 
variolate (va'ri-6-lat), a. [< ML,, rarioln + 
-ate 1 .] 1. In entom., resembling a scar of small- 
pox: noting impressions or fovete when they 
have a central prominence. 2. In hot., thick- 
ly marked with pustules or pits, as in small- 
pox. 
variolated (va'ri-o-la-ted), a. [< variolate + 
' ''-'.] Inoculated with the virus of smallpox. 
variolation (va'ri-o-la'shon), n. [< variola + 
-ation.] Inoculation with tne virus of smallpox. 
See inoculation, 2. Also tariolteation Bovine 
variolation. Inoculation of a cow with the virus of small 
pox, for the purpose of obtaining vaccine virus from the 
eruption resulting. 
vanole (va'ri-61), . [< F. variolc,< ML. variola, 
smallpox: see variola.] 1. In ;ool., a shallow 
pit, or slightly pitted marking, like the pitting 
of a smallpox-pustule; afoveole. 2. Inlitkol., 
a spheruhte of the rock called variolite. 
The sphernlitea or nzrtofar [of the variollte-dlabase from 
the Durance) are grouped or drawn out in hands parallel 
to the surface, being In some place* almost microscopic, 
in others & centim. in diameter. 
Cole and Gregory, quart. Jour. Oeol. Hoc., X I. VI. 312. 
variolic (va-ri-ol'ik), a. [= F. rariolique; as 
variola + -if.] Variolous. 
variolite (va'ri-o-lit), . [< variola + -ite"*.] A 
rock in which there is a more or less distinctly 
concretionary arrangement, giving rise to pus- 
tular or pea-like forms which are disseminated 
through a finely crystalline ground-mass, and 
which, from their resemblance as seen on wea- 
thered surfaces to smallpox-pustules, have for 
hundreds of years made this rock an object of 
curiosity. In India variolite has been held in high re- 
spect as a preventive of or cure for smallpox, being worn as 
an amulet suspended from theneck, or used in ot her similar 
ways. The name by which It has been known there Is ga- 
wiaicw. From the time of Aldrovandi till now, variolite 
has occupied the attention of geologists and lithologists. 
The best-known locality, by far, of this curious rock is 
the region of the river Durance, near the border of France 
and Italy. A rock very similar in character to the vario- 
lite of the Durance Is found in the district of olonetz 
in Russia. Variolite is now most generally regarded as 
a product of contact-metamorphism. The varioles or 
spherulito of this rock seem rather variable in composi- 
tion, but chiefly made up of a triclinlc feldspar. The Du* 
ranee variolite is defined by Its latest investigators (Mewra. 
Cole and Uregory) as being " a devitrifled spbernlitic tachy- 
lyte, typically coarse in structure." 
variolitic (va'ri-o-lit'ik), a. [< variolite + 
-ic.] In lithol., pertaining to, resembling, or 
containing variolite. 
variolitism (va'ri-o-lit-izm), n. [< variolitf + 
-ism.] A less correct form of varioliti:ation. 
Loswinson-Lcssing seems inclined Ui abandon variolite 
as the name of a rock-species In favor of sphernlitlc augitc- 
porphyrite, retaining it, however, in the form of vanolit- 
utm for that of a process. 
Quart. Jour. Gent. Soc., XLVI. 330. 
variolitization (va'ri-6-lit-i-za'shon), n. [< 
variolite + -i:e + -ation.] In lithol., conversion 
into variolite; change in a rock of such a char- 
acter as to give rise to the peculiar structure 
denominated variolitic. Quart. Jour. (leol. Soc., 
XLVI. 330. 
variollzation (va-ri-ol-i-za'shon), H. [< rariola 
+ -ire + -ation.] Same as variolation. 
varioloid (va'ri-o-loid), a. and . [= Sp. va- 
rioloide; < ML. variola, smallpox, + Or. tioof, 
form.] I. a. 1. Resembling variola or small- 
pox. 2. Resembling measles ; having the ap- 
pearance of measles, as the skin of diseased 
pigs. 
