Emily Dickinson Lexicon

various, adj. [L. vari-us, changing, different, diverse, variegated.] (webplay: change, curling, customs, giv'n, itself, kinds, lies, light, love, many, reason, size, sort, unlike, ways).

1. Variegated; striped; banded; multi-colored.
2. Multiple; diverse; different; more than one; one of many.
3. Changeable; mutable; shifting; not fixed.