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Widely different in nature or quality; opposite in character. He was far from ill looking, though he thought himself still farther. F. Anstey.

reaches from the curtain to the face, and defends the curtain, the flank and face of the opposite bastion; any part of a work defending another by a fire along the outside of its parapet. See Illust. of Bastion.

In a flat manner; directly; flatly. Sin is flat opposite to the Almighty. Herbert.

Having alternate curvatures in opposite directions; bent in a zigzag manner.

A page of a book; (Bookkeeping) a page in an account book; sometimes, two opposite pages bearing the same serial number.

Over against; opposite to. [Now dialectic] The land forenenst the Greekish shore. Fairfax.

A species of tenure in fee simple, being the opposite of ancient demesne, or copyhold. Burrill.

Certain or honorable; the opposite of base; as, free service; free socage. Burrill.

The doctrine or practice of consorting with the opposite sex, at pleasure, without marriage.

, or to be directed forward; the fore or forward part; the foremost rank; the van; -- the opposite to back or rear; as, the front of a house; the front of an army. Had he his hurts before Ay, on the front. Shak.

f a kind and a pair. -- Full moon. (a) The moon with its whole disk illuminated, as when opposite to the sun. (b) The time when the moon is full. -- Full organ (Mus.), the organ when all or most stops are out. -- Full score (Mus.), a score in which all the parts for voices and instruments are given. -- Full sea, hi…

The hook on the end of an eccentric rod opposite the strap. See. Illust. of Eccentric.

The lashing or iron band by which the bowsprit of a vessel is secured to the stem to opposite the lifting action of the forestays. Gammoning fashion, in the style of gammoning lashing, that is, having the turns of rope crossed. -- Gammoning hole (Naut.), a hole cut through the knee of the head of a vessel for the purp…

tion of offspring by the union of parents of different sexes; sexual reproduction; -- the opposite of agamogenesis.

Any one of a genus (Gentiana) of herbaceous plants with opposite leaves and a tubular four- or five-lobed corolla, usually blue, but sometimes white, yellow, or red. See Illust. of Capsule.

zontal upper and lower bars connected by a series of diagonal bars sloping alternately in opposite directions so as to divide the space between the bars into a series of triangles. Knight. -- Sandwich girder, a girder consisting of two parallel wooden beams, between which is an iron plate, the whole clamped together b…

hemisphere, the point of sight being taken in the axis produced beyond the surface of the opposite hemisphere a distance equal to the radius of the sphere into the sine of 45º. -- Globular sailing, sailing on the arc of a great circle, or so as to make the shortest distance between two places; circular sailing.…

f a fore-and-aft sail when the vessel is steered off the wind until the sail fills on the opposite side. [Also jibe.]

A subordinary of triangular form having one of its angles at the fess point and the opposite aide at the edge of the escutcheon. When there is only one gyron on the shield it is bounded by two linea drawn from the fess point, one horizontally to the dexter side, and one to the dexter chief corner.

the that holds the revolving spindle and its attachments; -- also called poppet head, the opposite corresponding part being called a tailstock.