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An anvil; a stithy. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] He invented also pincers, hammers, iron crows, and the anvil, or stith. Holland.

A smith's shop; a smithy; a smithery; a forge. "As foul as Vulcan's stithy." Shak.

Not subjected tithes.

Expressing contrariety, opposition, or antithesis; as, an adversative conjunction (but, however, yet, etc. ); an adversative force. -- Ad*ver"sa*tive*ly, adv.

The profit which accrues to the priest, by reason of the altar, from the small tithes. Shipley.

An antithesis in which the members are repeated in inverse order.

The head or chief of a tithing, or borough (see 2d Borough); the headborough; a parish constable. Spelman.

The offense of violating the pledge given by every inhabitant of a tithing to keep the peace; breach of the peace. Burrill.

To infect or pollute; to corrupt. Addison. A tithe purloined canker the whole estate. Herbert.

ny, or a specific sum of money for conditional payments or allowances; as, commutation of tithes; commutation of fares; commutation of copyright; commutation of rations. Angle of commutation (Astron.), the difference of the geocentric longitudes of the sun and a planet. -- Commutation of tithes, the substitution of a…

diminish; as, to commute a sentence of death to one of imprisonment for life; to commute tithes; to commute charges for fares. The sounds water and fire, being once annexed to those two elements, it was certainly more natural to call beings participating of the first "watery", and the last "fiery", than to commute the…

Against the affirmative side; in opposition; on the negative side; -- The antithesis of pro, and usually in connection with it. See Pro.

A term or word which is the opposite of, or antithesis to, another; an antonym; -- the opposite of synonym; as, "foe" is the counterterm of "friend". C. J. Smith.

Same as Cumin. Ye pay tithe of mint, and cummin. Matt. xxiii. 23.

A tithing consisting of ten neighboring families. Burrill.

To take the tenth part of; to tithe. Johnson.

A tithing. [Obs.] State Trials (1630).

A tenth; a tenth part; a tithe. Ayliffe.

A saying in which two members of the sentence are contrasted; an antithetical proverb. [Obs.] Italy, a paradise for horses, a hell for women, as the diverb goes. Burton.

The style of the epigram. Antithesis, i. e., bilateral stroke, is the soul of epigram in its later and technical signification. B. Cracroft.