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In an irreversible manner.

m facts arrives at principles and definitions, or infers causes from effects. This is the reverse of a priori reasoning.

umed, or which infers effects from causes previously known; deductive or deductively. The reverse of a posteriori.

A current which periodically changes or reverses its direction of flow.

g of three syllables, the first two short, or unaccented, the last long, or accented; the reverse of the dactyl. In Latin d, and in English in-ter-vene, are examples of anapests.

ies in the progeny of its varieties; resemblance to remote rather than to near ancestors; reversion to the original form.

To agree to become tenant to one to whom reversion has been granted.

ri Pieper, a Belgian) of driving automobiles employing a gasoline engine and an auxiliary reversible dynamo. When there is an excess of power the dynamo is driven by the engine so as to charge a small storage battery; when there is a deficiency of power the dynamo reverses and acts as an auxiliary motor. Sometimes call…

arrant, issued in another county, to apprehend an offender. -- To back water (Naut.), to reverse the action of the oars, paddles, or propeller, so as to force the boat or ship backward.

during the exhaust or the compression stroke, tending to drive the piston in a direction reverse to that in which it should travel; also, an explosion in the exhaust passages of such ah engine.

nything which brings misfortune upon one, or causes failure in an effort or enterprise; a reverse. [Scot.]

ing or reflex motion caused in badly fitting machinery by irregularities in velocity or a reverse of motion.

In a contrary or reverse manner, way, or direction; contrarily; as, to read backwards. We might have . . . beat them backward home. Shak.

imaginary symbols and quantities of algebra. -- Integral calculus, a method which in the reverse of the differential, the primary object of which is to learn from the known ratio of the indefinitely small changes of two or more magnitudes, the relation of the magnitudes themselves, or, in other words, from having the…

it is called single transfer; if the image is afterward transferred in order to give an unreversed print, the method is called double transfer.

of cassation, the highest court of appeal in France, which has power to quash (Casser) or reverse the decisions of the inferior courts.

A rustic; a countryman or laborer. "A peasant or churl." Spenser. Your rank is all reversed; let men of cloth Bow to the stalwart churls in overalls. Emerson.

one method, the film is sensitized with potassium dichromate and exposed to light under a reversed negative. After the dichromate has been washed out, the film is soaked in glycerin and water. As this treatment causes swelling in those parts of the film which have been acted on by light, a plate results from which impr…

A piece of apparatus used for reversing the direction of an electrical current; an attachment to certain electrical machines, by means of which alternating currents are made to be continuous or to have the same direction.

the first "watery", and the last "fiery", than to commute the terms, and call them by the reverse. J. Harris The utmost that could be obtained was that her sentence should be commuted from burning to beheading. Macaulay.