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A platform of a staircase where the stair turns back in exactly the reverse direction of the lower flight. See Quarterpace.

uman body; the bodily feeling experienced on exposure to fire, the sun's rays, etc.; the reverse of cold.

n speech or in writing, of that which one does not intend to say; -- frequently the very reverse of the thought which is present to consciousness. R. G. White.

pended, as from the top of a wall. -- Hook motion (Steam Engin.), a valve gear which is reversed by V hooks. -- Hook squid, any squid which has the arms furnished with hooks, instead of suckers, as in the genera Enoploteuthis and Onychteuthis. -- Hook wrench, a wrench or spanner, having a hook at the end, instead of…

e direction of the earth's revolution, the stars and planets passing through them in the reverse order every twenty- four hours.

A figure in which the natural order of sense is reversed; hysterology; as, valet atque vivit, "he is well and lives."

n; an illative word, as then, therefore, etc. Illative conversion (Logic), a converse or reverse statement of a proposition which in that form must be true because the original proposition is true. -- Illative sense (Metaph.), the faculty of the mind by which it apprehends the conditions and determines upon the correc…

The measure of the distance; as, an indentation of one em, or of two ems. Hanging, or Reverse, indentation, indentation of all the lines of a paragraph except the first, which is a full line.

Opposite in order, relation, or effect; reversed; inverted; reciprocal; -- opposed to direct.

A change by inverted order; a reversed position or arrangement of things; transposition. It is just the inversion of an act of Parliament; your lordship first signed it, and then it was passed among the Lords and Commons. Dryden.

o turn over; to put upside down; to upset; to place in a contrary order or direction; to reverse; as, to invert a cup, the order of words, rules of justice, etc. That doth invert the attest of eyes and ears, As if these organs had deceptious functions. Shak. Such reasoning falls like an inverted cone, Wanting its prope…

Changed to a contrary or counterchanged order; reversed; characterized by inversion.

r assigned; the multiplication of a quantity into itself a given number of times; -- the reverse of evolution.

Incapable of being reversed or turned about or back; incapable of being made to run backward; as, an irreversible engine.

y to the temperature of the cold chamber into which it is finally exhausted. This cycle, reversed, is used in refrigerating machines.

able connecting bar, called the link, in such a way that the motion of the engine can be reversed, or the cut-off varied, at will; -- used very generally in locomotives and marine engines.

the weather by the arts of magic. -- Medicine seal, a small gem or paste engraved with reversed characters, to serve as a seal. Such seals were used by Roman physicians to stamp the names of their medicines.

A prefix meaning between, with, after, behind, over, about, reversely; as, metachronism, the error of placing after the correct time; metaphor, lit., a carrying over; metathesis, a placing reversely.

A hardened steel roller having a design in relief, used for imprinting a reversed copy of the design in a softer metal, as copper.

t of such repeated additions; also, the rule by which the operation is performed; -- the reverse of division.