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e back or arms of a chair or sofa, etc., to prevent them from being soiled by macassar or other oil from the hair.

Opposition of one law or rule to another law or rule. Different commentators have deduced from it the very opposite doctrines. In some instances this apparent antinomy is doubtful. De Quincey.

istaste. Inveterate antipathies against particular nations, and passionate attachments to others, are to be avoided. Washington.

The response which one side of the choir makes to the other in a chant; alternate chanting or signing.

The putting of one case for another.

Believed to cause a revulsion of fluids or of humors from one part to another. [Obs.]

or parts; the first of which, called strophe, was sung in turning from east to west; the other, named antistrophe, in returning from west to east; then they stood before the altar, and sang the epode, which was the last part of the song. Abp. Potter.

of whatever kind, quantity, or number; as, are there any witnesses present are there any other houses like it "Who will show us any good" Ps. iv. 6.

Any object, act, state, event, or fact whatever; thing of any kind; something or other; aught; as, I would not do it for anything. Did you ever know of anything so unlucky A. Trollope. They do not know that anything is amiss with them. W. G. Sumner.

he Greek language, which expresses an action as completed in past time, but leaves it, in other respects, wholly indeterminate.

Separately, in regard to space or company; in a state of separation as to place; aside. Others apart sat on a hill retired. Milton. The Lord hath set apart him that is godly for himself. Ps. iv. 3.

A room in a building; a division in a house, separated from others by partitions. Fielding.

Open; ev [Archaic] Fotherby.

The diameter of the exposed part of the object glass of a telescope or other optical instrument; as, a telescope of four-inch aperture.

s of insects of the order Hymenoptera, including the common honeybee (Apis mellifica) and other related species. See Honeybee.

eived by some Christians as an authentic part of the Holy Scriptures, but are rejected by others.

One of the processes of the shell which project inwards and unite with one another, in the thorax of many Crustacea.

The apogeotropic tendency of some leaves, and other parts.

Something said or written in defense or justification of what appears to others wrong, or of what may be liable to disapprobation; justification; as, Tertullian's Apology for Christianity. It is not my intention to make an apology for my poem; some will think it needs no excuse, and others will receive none. Dryden.…

ples, or party, to which he before adhered; esp., one who has forsaken his religion for another; a pervert; a renegade.