n.
The act of varying; a partial change in the form, position, state, or qualities of a thing; modification; alternation; mutation; diversity; deviation; as, a variation of color in different lights; a variation in size; variation of language.
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The result of such a work; a text established by critical revision; an edited version. →
n.
An isolated or protruding rock; a steep, rocky eminence; a bare place on the side of a mountain or steep bank of earth. →
n.
A genus of simple, stony corals; -- so called because they are usually flat and circular, with radiating plates, like the gills of a mushroom. Some of them are eighteen inches in diameter. →
v. i.
To grow, as plants, by nutriment imbibed by means of roots and leaves; to start into growth; to sprout; to germinate. →
v. i.
To rise and fall with alternate motions, as the lungs in heavy breathing, as waves in a heavy sea, as ships on the billows, as the earth when broken up by frost, etc.; to swell; to dilate; to expand; to distend; hence, to labor; to struggle. →