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e or dark passage in a painting, engraving, or the like; as, the light and darks are well contrasted. The lights may serve for a repose to the darks, and the darks to the lights. Dryden.

A thin layer of peculiar contractile tissue directly beneath the skin of the scrotum.

e of paying taxes, duties, etc. To declare off, to recede from an agreement, undertaking, contract, etc.; to renounce. -- To declare one's self, to avow one's opinion; to show openly what one thinks, or which side he espouses.

on paper or parchment, duly executed and delivered, containing some transfer, bargain, or contract.

To fail in fulfilling a contract, agreement, or duty.

to the trial of mortal fight. Milton. I defy the enemies of our constitution to show the contrary. Burke.

A dissuader; an adviser to the contrary. [Obs.]

ossibility of doubt or denial. We can not demonstrate these things so as to show that the contrary often involves a contradiction. Tillotson.

The act of gainsaying, refusing, or disowning; negation; -- the contrary of affirmation. You ought to converse with so much sincerity that your bare affirmation or denial may be sufficient. Bp. Stillingfleet.

To declare not to be true; to gainsay; to contradict; -- opposed to affirm, allow, or admit.

endent and degraded, was again a power of the first rank. Macaulay. Dependent covenant or contract (Law), one not binding until some connecting stipulation is performed. -- Dependent variable (Math.), a varying quantity whose changes are arbitrary, but are regarded as produced by changes in another variable, which is…

part; to repeal partly; to restrict; to limit the action of; -- said of a law. By several contrary customs, . . . many of the civil and canon laws are controlled and derogated. Sir M. Hale.

An alteration of, or subtraction from, a contract for a sale of stocks.

efiance of; in spite of. See under Spite. "Seized my hand in despite of my efforts to the contrary." W. Irving. -- In your despite, in defiance or contempt of you; in spite of you. [Obs.]

bly and invincibly determined by motives. Its superior suitability to produce courage, as contrasted with scientific physical determinism, is obvious. F. P. Cobbe.

is rather an eternal outlaw, and in hostility with law past all atonement; both diagonal contraries, as much allowing one another as day and night together in one hemisphere. Milton.

und containing two amido groups united with one or more basic or positive radicals, -- as contrasted with a diamide.

ythmical expansion or dilatation of the heart and arteries; -- correlative to systole, or contraction.

nto two; especially, the division of a class into two subclasses opposed to each other by contradiction, as the division of the term man into white and not white.

Of various or contrary nature, form, or quality; partially or totally unlike; dissimilar; as, different kinds of food or drink; different states of health; different shapes; different degrees of excellence. Men are as different from each other, as the regions in which they are born are different. Dryden.…