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Not straitened as to money matters; as, the market is easy; -- opposed to tight. Honors are easy (Card Playing), said when each side has an equal number of honors, in which case they are not counted as points.

The reflux or flowing back of the tide; the return of the tidal wave toward the sea; -- opposed to flood; as, the boats will go out on the ebb. Thou shoreless flood which in thy ebb and flow Claspest the limits of morality! Shelley.

The reflux of tide water; the retiring tide; -- opposed to flood tide.

oinciding, either in whole or in part, as to area or volume, have not the same center; -- opposed to concentric.

Toward the outside or surface; -- opposed to entad. B. G. Wilder.

Pertaining to, or situated near, the surface; outer; -- opposed to ental. B. G. Wilder.

Any parasite which lives on the exterior of animals; -- opposed to endoparasite. -- Ec`to*par`a*sit"ic, a.

are conveyed by the motor or efferent nerves from the central nervous organ outwards; -- opposed to afferent.

is egested or thrown off from the body by the various excretory channels; excrements; -- opposed to ingesta.

l experiences, whether held to be directly known or the product of reflective thought; -- opposed to non-ego.

self; the habit of regarding one's self as the center of every interest; selfishness; -- opposed to altruism.

nother; prior in years; senior; earlier; older; as, his elder brother died in infancy; -- opposed to Ant: younger, and now commonly applied to a son, daughter, child, brother, etc. The elder shall serve the younger. Gen. xxv. 23. But ask of elder days, earth's vernal hour. Keble. Elder hand (Card Playing), the hand pla…

Negative; nonmetallic; acid; -- opposed to positive, metallic, or basic.

Serving to refute; refutative; -- applied to indirect modes of proof, and opposed to deictic.

One of the natives of France who were opposed to the first Revolution, and who left their country in consequence.

light are all brought accurately and without undue effort to a focus upon the retina; -- opposed to hypermetropia, myopia, an astigmatism.

r resulting from, experience, or experiment; following from empirical methods or data; -- opposed to nativistic.

Having a head; -- said of most Mollusca; -- opposed to acephalous.

especially, to meet in opposition or with hostile intent; to engage in conflict with; to oppose; to struggle with; as, to encounter a friend in traveling; two armies encounter each other; to encounter obstacles or difficulties, to encounter strong evidence of a truth. Then certain philosophers of the Epicureans, and o…

d of a field, line, pole, road; the end of a year, of a discourse; put an end to pain; -- opposed to Ant: beginning, when used of anything having a first part. Better is the end of a thing than the beginning thereof. Eccl. vii. 8.