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To engage in contradiction; to be in opposition. [Obs.] In strifeful terms with him to balk. Spenser.

To vote for or in opposition to. None of the competitors arriving to a sufficient number of balls, they fell to ballot some others. Sir H. Wotton.

An imposition; a cheat; a hoax. Garrick. To relieve the tediumbams. Prof. Wilson.

A deposit of ore or coal, worked by excavations above water level.

A book kept by a depositor, in which an officer of a bank enters the debits and credits of the depositor's account with the bank.

ing; one who, individually, or as a member of a company, keeps an establishment for the deposit or loan of money, or for traffic in money, bills of exchange, etc.

ich represent the various forms of the syllogism. It indicates a syllogism whose three propositions are universal affirmatives. Whately.

A form or mode of syllogism of which the first proposition is a universal affirmative, and the other two are particular negative.

Having a barrel; -- used in composition; as, a double-barreled gun.

Low in place or position. [Obs.] Shak.

A combining form, especially in anatomical and botanical words, to indicate the base or position at or near a base; forming a base; as, basibranchials, the most ventral of the cartilages or bones of the branchial arches; basicranial, situated at the base of the cranium; basifacial, basitemporal, etc.…

which two parties of players contest with each other to toss a large inflated ball into opposite goals resembling baskets.

The lowest part in a musical composition.

To sew loosely, or with long stitches; -- usually, that the work may be held in position until sewed more firmly. Shak.

A positive or nonacid constituent of compound, either elementary, or, if compound, performing the functions of an element.

Pertaining to, or having the nature of, a basyle; electro- positive; basic; -- opposed to chlorous. Graham.

Order of battle; disposition or arrangement of troops (brigades, regiments, battalions, etc.), or of a naval force, for action. A drawing up the armies in battalia. Jer. Taylor.

ed to open upon the enemy. -- Out of battery, or From battery, withdrawn, as a gun, to a position for loading.

A compartment in a barn, for depositing hay, or grain in the stalks.

. -- Raised beach, an accumulation of water-worn stones, gravel, sand, and other shore deposits, above the present level of wave action, whether actually raised by elevation of the coast, as in Norway, or left by the receding waters, as in many lake and river regions.