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Any one of many species of long-legged dipterous insects belonging to Tipula and allied genera. They have long and slender bodies. See Crane fly, under Crane.

Of or pertaining to the tipulas.

On tiptoe; eagerly expecting. We all feel a-tiptoe with hope and confidence. F. Harrison.

Opposed to the pope or to popery. Milton.

Running in a contrary direction. Hammond.

Straight lines or planes which make angles in some respect opposite in character to those made by parallel lines or planes.

Good against paralysis. -- n.

Antiparalytic.

The Sunday after Easter; Low Sunday.

Having a natural contrariety, or constitutional aversion, to a thing; characterized by antipathy; -- often followed by to. Fuller.

Belonging to antipathy; opposite; contrary; allopathic.

One who has an antipathy. [R.] "Antipathist of light." Coleridge.

To feel or show antipathy. [R.]

Having a natural contrariety; adverse; antipathetic. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl.

or opposition in feeling; settled aversion or dislike; repugnance; distaste. Inveterate antipathies against particular nations, and passionate attachments to others, are to be avoided. Washington.

A product of gastric and pancreatic digestion, differing from hemipeptone in not being decomposed by the continued action of pancreatic juice.

A remedy possessing the property of preventing the return of periodic paroxysms, or exacerbations, of disease, as in intermittent fevers.

Opposed to, or checking motion; acting upward; -- applied to an inverted action of the intestinal tube.

Opposition by which the quality opposed asquires strength; resistance or reaction roused by opposition or by the action of an opposite principle or quality.

Pertaining to antiperistasis.