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A prominence on the lower posterior portion of the concha of the external ear, opposite the tragus. See Ear.

Opposition or resistance of matter to force. [R.] Sir W. Hamilton.

Opposition to vaccination. London Times.

Opposition to vivisection.

Preventing fermentation or decomposition. -- n.

Those who live under the same meridian, but on opposite parallels of latitude, north and south of the equator.

A word of opposite meaning; a counterterm; -- used as a correlative of synonym. [R.] C. J. Smith.

A state of restlessness and agitation, often with general indisposition and a distressing sense of oppression at the epigastrium. Dunglison.

character, or as a matter of thought; separately; independently; as, consider the two propositions apart.

That point of a planet's or comet's orbit which is most distant from the sun, the opposite point being the perihelion.

Want of love to mankind; -- the opposite of philanthropy. Coxe.

A prefix from a Greek preposition. It usually signifies from, away from, off, or asunder, separate; as, in apocope (a cutting off), apostate, apostle (one sent away), apocarpous.

A deposit formed in a liquid extract of a vegetable substance by exposure to the air.

The position of being heir apparent.

r for the purpose, of censure or commendation; to arraign. [Obs.] Appoint not heavenly disposition. Milton.

To place opposite or before; to put or apply (one thing to another). The nymph herself did then appose, For food and beverage, to him all best meat. Chapman.

Placed in apposition; mutually fitting, as the mandibles of a bird's beak.

To anticipate; esp., to anticipate with anxiety, dread, or fear; to fear. The opposition had more reason than the king to apprehend violence. Macaulay.

; approach; also, the result of approximating. The largest capacity and the most noble dispositions are but an approximation to the proper standard and true symmetry of human nature. I. Taylor.

A natural or acquired disposition or capacity for a particular purpose, or tendency to a particular action or effect; as, oil has an aptitude to burn. He seems to have had a peculiar aptitude for the management of irregular troops. Macaulay.