a. [ L. tessella a small square piece, a little cube, dim. of tessera a square piece of stone, wood, etc., a die. ] Formed of tesserae, as a mosaic. [ 1913 Webster ]
‖n. pl. [ NL. See Tessellate. ] (Zool.) A division of Crinoidea including numerous fossil species in which the body is covered with tessellated plates. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. [ L. tesselatus. ] Tessellated. [ 1913 Webster ]
v. t.
The floors are sometimes of wood, tessellated after the fashion of France. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]
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n. The act of tessellating; also, the mosaic work so formed. J. Forsyth. [ 1913 Webster ]
‖n.;
a. Diversified by squares; done in mosaic; tessellated. [ Obs. ] Sir R. Atkyns (1712). [ 1913 Webster ]
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a. (Crystallog.) Tesseral. [ 1913 Webster ]