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oducts of combustion, esp. of all the plates or sheets that are exposed to water on their opposite surfaces; -- called also fire surface.

The bank of a canal opposite, and corresponding to, that of the towpath; berm. [U. S.]

hips. -- To shift the helm, to bear the tiller over to the corresponding position on the opposite side of the vessel. Ham. Nav. Encyc.

Moving in opposite directions; -- said of a lever, pulley, etc., in which the resistance and the actuating force are on opposite sides of the fulcrum or axis.

Having different names or designations; standing in opposite relations. J. Le Conte. -- Het"er*on"y*mous*ly, adv.

That mode of treating diseases, by which a morbid condition is removed by inducing an opposite morbid condition to supplant it; allopathy.

lives on the other side of them; -- so called because at noon the shadows always fall in opposite directions (the one northward, the other southward).

The formation and development of organic tissues; histogeny; -- the opposite of histolysis.

hooked at the end, attempt to drive any small object (as a ball or a bit of wood) toward opposite goals.

obtuse angle in the upper surface of any member, as of a timber laid horizontally; -- the opposite of camber.

Similarly in arrangement of parts; -- the opposite of heterotaxy.

rests. -- Hook and eye, one of the small wire hooks and loops for fastening together the opposite edges of a garment, etc. -- Hook bill (Zoöl.), the strongly curved beak of a bird. -- Hook ladder, a ladder with hooks at the end by which it can be suspended, as from the top of a wall. -- Hook motion (Steam Engin.),…

Spur gearing having teeth slanting across the face of the wheel, sometimes slanting in opposite directions from the middle.

A genus of shrubby plants bearing opposite leaves and large heads of showy flowers, white, or of various colors. H. hortensis, the common garden species, is a native of China or Japan.

s equal to a given distance. See Focus. If the cutting plane be produced so as to cut the opposite cone, another curve will be formed, which is also an hyperbola. Both curves are regarded as branches of the same hyperbola. See Illust. of Conic section, and Focus.

A condition of overgrowth or excessive development of an organ or part; -- the opposite of atrophy.

h several things are mentioned that seem to make against the argument, or in favor of the opposite side, each of them being refuted in order.

The side of a right-angled triangle that is opposite to the right angle.

r, has long been merely to obtain further time to plead, answer to the allegations of the opposite party.

One who is in office; -- the opposite of Ant: out.