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A failure to deposit or throw down.

Absence of necessity; the quality or state of being unnecessary.

Not sensitive; wanting sense or perception; not easily affected.

Rhythm; harmony; flow. [Obs.] The numerosity of the sentence pleased the ear. S. Parr.

The state or quality of being obese; incumbrance of flesh.

Obtuseness. Lond. Quart. Rev.

Frequently; often. [Obs.] For whom I sighed have so oftensith. Gascoigne.

The state or quality of being oily or fat; fatness. [R.] B. Jonson.

Laboriousness. [R.] Bp. Hall.

Placed over against; standing or situated over against or in front; facing; -- often with to; as, a house opposite to the Exchange.

In a situation to face each other; in an opposite manner or direction; adversely. Winds from all quarters oppositely blow. May.

The quality or state of being opposite.

ame node with a leaf, but separated from it by the whole diameter of the stem; as, an oppositifolious peduncle.

an attempt to check, restrain, or defeat; resistance. The counterpoise of so great an opposition. Shak. Virtue which breaks through all opposition. Milton.

One who belongs to the opposition party. Praed.

Placed in front of a petal.

Placed in front of a sepal.

Capable of being put in opposition. Bp. Hall.

Leisure; indolence; idleness; ease. [R.] Thackeray.

To remain sitting, or in session, longer than, or beyond the time of; to outstay.