Noah Webster's New International Dictionary of the English Language

1. (n.) Change of condition; variation.

2. (n.) Difference that produce dispute or controversy; disagreement; dissension; discord; dispute; quarrel.

3. (n.) A disagreement or difference between two parts of the same legal proceeding, which, to be effectual, ought to agree, -- as between the writ and the declaration, or between the allegation and the proof.