Ovary :: Ovary (n.) The essential female reproductive organ in which the ova are produced. See Illust. of Discophora.

Parovarium :: Parovarium (n.) A group of tubules, a remnant of the Wolffian body, often found near the ovary or oviduct; the epoophoron..

Prevaricate :: Prevaricate (v. i.) To shift or turn from one side to the other, from the direct course, or from truth; to speak with equivocation; to shuffle; to quibble; as, he prevaricates in his statement..

Prevaricate :: Prevaricate (v. i.) To collude, as where an informer colludes with the defendant, and makes a sham prosecution..

Prevaricate :: Prevaricate (v. i.) To undertake a thing falsely and deceitfully, with the purpose of defeating or destroying it..

Prevaricate :: Prevaricate (v. t.) To evade by a quibble; to transgress; to pervert.

Prevaricated :: Prevaricated (imp. & p. p.) of Prevaricat.

Prevaricating :: Prevaricating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Prevaricat.

Prevarication :: Prevarication (n.) The act of prevaricating, shuffling, or quibbling, to evade the truth or the disclosure of truth; a deviation from the truth and fair dealing..

Prevarication :: Prevarication (n.) A secret abuse in the exercise of a public office.

Prevarication :: Prevarication (n.) The collusion of an informer with the defendant, for the purpose of making a sham prosecution..

Prevarication :: Prevarication (n.) A false or deceitful seeming to undertake a thing for the purpose of defeating or destroying it.

Prevaricator :: Prevaricator (n.) One who prevaricates.

Prevaricator :: Prevaricator (n.) A sham dealer; one who colludes with a defendant in a sham prosecution.

Prevaricator :: Prevaricator (n.) One who betrays or abuses a trust.

Pseudovaries :: Pseudovaries (pl. ) of Pseudovar.

Pseudovary :: Pseudovary (n.) The organ in which pseudova are produced; -- called also pseudovarium.

Salivary :: Salivary (a.) Of or pertaining to saliva; producing or carrying saliva; as, the salivary ferment; the salivary glands; the salivary ducts, etc..

Samovar :: Samovar (n.) A metal urn used in Russia for making tea. It is filled with water, which is heated by charcoal placed in a pipe, with chimney attached, which passes through the urn..

Subvariety :: -ties (pl. ) of Subvariet.

Unvariable :: Unvariable (a.) Invariable.

Vara :: Vara (n.) A Spanish measure of length equal to about one yard. The vara now in use equals 33.385 inches.

Varan :: Varan (n.) The monitor. See Monitor, 3..

Varangian :: Varangian (n.) One of the Northmen who founded a dynasty in Russia in the 9th century; also, one of the Northmen composing, at a later date, the imperial bodyguard at Constantinople..

Varanus :: Varanus (n.) A genus of very large lizards native of Asia and Africa. It includes the monitors. See Monitor, 3..

Vare :: Vare (n.) A wand or staff of authority or justice.

Vare :: Vare (n.) A weasel.

Varec :: Varec (n.) The calcined ashes of any coarse seaweed used for the manufacture of soda and iodine; also, the seaweed itself; fucus; wrack..

Vari :: Vari (n.) The ringtailed lemur (Lemur catta) of Madagascar. Its long tail is annulated with black and white.

Variability :: Variability (n.) The quality or state of being variable; variableness.

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