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A fissure or fracture on the side opposite to that which received the blow, or at some distance from it. Coxe.

Pertaining to the sending of two messages in opposite directions at the same time.

A placing over against; opposite position. [Obs.] F. Potter.

(adv. In a contrary manner; in opposition; on the other side; in opposite ways.

Contrarily; oppositely. Shak.

On the contrary; oppositely; on the other hand. Not rendering evil for evil, or railing for railing; but contrariwise, blessing. 1 Pet. iii. 9.

Opposite; in an opposite direction; in opposition; adverse; as, contrary winds. And if ye walk contrary unto me, and will not hearken unto me. Lev. xxvi. 21. We have lost our labor; they are gone a contrary way. Shak.

A turning to the opposite side; antistrophe. Congreve.

A concussion or shock produced by a blow or other injury, in a part or region opposite to that at which the blow is received, often causing rupture or disorganisation of the parts affected.

A dance in which the partners are arranged face to face, or in opposite lines.

Turning or looking opposite ways. [Obs.] The temple of Janus, with his two controversal faces. Milton.

usion or inference. Thus, if two sides of a sides of a triangle are equal, the angles opposite the sides are equal; and the converse is true, i.e., if these angles are equal, the two sides are equal.

; a vessel to receive gifts of charity; a treasury of the church, where offerings are deposited.

A genus of herbaceous composite plants, having the achenes two- horned and remotely resembling some insect; tickseed. C. tinctoria, of the Western plains, the commonest plant of the genus, has been used in dyeing.

Rising or setting with the sun; -- the opposite of acronycal.

barter; charge; expense; hence, whatever, as labor, self-denial, suffering, etc., is requisite to secure benefitt. One day shall crown the alliance on 't so please you, Here at my house, and at my proper cost. Shak. At less cost of life than is often expended in a skirmish, [Charles V.] saved Europe from invasion. Pres…

n couché is one which emerges from one side of the escutcheon and has its apex on the opposite side, or at the fess point.

A prefix meaning contrary, opposite, in opposition; as, counteract, counterbalance, countercheck. See Counter, adv. & a.

A brace, in a framed structure, which resists a strain of a character opposite to that which a main brace is designed to receive.

Lying down, with their heads in opposite directions; -- said of animals borne in a coat of arms.