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A turning from with dislike; aversion. [Obs.or Archaic] Some men have a natural aversation to some vices or virtues, and a natural affection to others. Jer. Taylor.

Turned away or backward. [Obs.] The tracks averse a lying notice gave, And led the searcher backward from the cave. Dryden.

Backward; in a backward direction; as, emitted aversely.

The quality of being averse; opposition of mind; unwillingness.

A turning away. [Obs.] Adhesion to vice and aversion from goodness. Bp. Atterbury.

A variety of paralysis, peculiar to India and the Malabar coast; -- considered by many to be the same as beriberi in chronic form.

A controversy (1886 --93) between Great Britain and the United States as to the right of Canadians not licensed by the United States to carry on seal fishing in the Bering Sea, over which the United States claimed jurisdiction as a mare clausum. A court of arbitration, meeting in Paris in 1893, decided against the clai…

d now introduced into the southwestern United States. It is more succulent than other clovers or than alfalfa. Called also Egyptian clover.

One who fights as if frenzied, like a Berserker.

See Bristle. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A liquor, generally spirituous in which a bitter herb, leaf, or root is steeped.

Anything which is bittersweet.

A blustering, talkative fellow. [Local slang, U. S.] Barllett.

Vexatious; causing bother; causing trouble or perplexity; troublesome.

Complete overthrow; disorder; a turning upside down.

See Legislature, Switzerland.

The state or privileges of a burgher.

The office of a butler.

An instrument, usually resembling a pair of dividers or compasses with curved legs, for measuring the diameter or thickness of bodies, as of work shaped in a lathe or planer, timber, masts, shot, etc.; or the bore of firearms, tubes, etc.; -- called also caliper compasses, or caliber compasses. Caliper square, a draugh…

See Calipers.