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Acute or sharp; -- opposed to grave or low; as, a high note.

y, honorable pride; of or pertaining to elevated principles and feelings; magnanimous; -- opposed to mean. High-minded, manly recognition of those truths. A. Norton.

In the rear; -- opposed to front; of or pertaining to the part or end which follows or is behind, in opposition to the part which leads or is before; as, the hind legs or hind feet of a quadruped; the hind man in a procession.

ation; composed entirely of germinal matter, the whole of the yolk undergoing fission; -- opposed to meroblastic.

lly administered in minute doses. This system was founded by Dr. Samuel Hahnemann, and is opposed to allopathy, or heteropathy. [Written also homoepathy.]

the tail nearly or quite symmetrical, the vertebral column terminating near its base; -- opposed to heterocercal.

Having all the teeth similar in front, as in the porpoises; -- opposed to heterodont.

the ganglia of the nervous system symmetrically arranged, as in certain invertebrates; -- opposed to heterogangliate.

e same kind of nature; consisting of similar parts, or of elements of the like nature; -- opposed to heterogeneous; as, homogeneous particles, elements, or principles; homogeneous bodies.

imal or plant, running through the same cycle of existence as the parent; gamogenesis; -- opposed to heterogenesis.

held that the Son was of like, but not the same, essence or substance with the Father; -- opposed to homoousian.

The possession, in one species of plants, of only one kind of flowers; -- opposed to heteromorphism, dimorphism, and trimorphism.

Having the same name or designation; standing in the same relation; -- opposed to heteronymous.

creed, and maintained that the Son had the same essence or substance with the Father; -- opposed to homoiousian.

Now used for plain harmony, note against note, as opposed to polyphonic harmony, in which the several parts move independently, each with its own melody.

Plain harmony, as opposed to polyphony. See Homophonous.

aving much sensible heat; exciting the feeling of warmth in a great degree; very warm; -- opposed to cold, and exceeding warm in degree; as, a hot stove; hot water or air. "A hotvenison pasty." Shak.

Nevertheless; notwithstanding; yet; still; though; as, I shall not oppose your design; I can not, however, approve of it. In your excuse your love does little say; You might howe'er have took a better way. Dryden.

for a member of the conservative section of the Democratic party in New York; hence, one opposed to progress in general; a fogy. [Political Cant, U.S.]

rtaining to the motions of fluids, or the forces which produce or affect such motions; -- opposed to hydrostatic. Sir W. Thomson.