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One of the antipodes; anything exactly opposite. In tale or history your beggar is ever the just antipode to your king. Lamb.

Pertaining to the antipodes, or the opposite side of the world; antipodal.

Those who live on the side of the globe diametrically opposite.

The opposite pole; anything diametrically opposed. Geo. Eliot.

of the earth, living on different sides of the equator, whose shadows at noon are cast in opposite directions. The inhabitants of the north and south temperate zones are always Antiscians. Brande & C.

Opposite to the sun; -- said of the point in the heavens 180º distant from the sun.

A prominence on the lower posterior portion of the concha of the external ear, opposite the tragus. See Ear.

Those who live under the same meridian, but on opposite parallels of latitude, north and south of the equator.

A word of opposite meaning; a counterterm; -- used as a correlative of synonym. [R.] C. J. Smith.

That point of a planet's or comet's orbit which is most distant from the sun, the opposite point being the perihelion.

Want of love to mankind; -- the opposite of philanthropy. Coxe.

To place opposite or before; to put or apply (one thing to another). The nymph herself did then appose, For food and beverage, to him all best meat. Chapman.

A genus of trees of the Olive family, having opposite pinnate leaves, many of the species furnishing valuable timber, as the European ash (Fraxinus excelsior) and the white ash (F. Americana). Prickly ash (Zanthoxylum Americanum) and Poison ash (Rhus venenata) are shrubs of different families, somewhat resembling the t…

Anticlinal axis (Geol.), a line or ridge from which the strata slope downward on the two opposite sides. -- Synclinal axis, a line from which the strata slope upward in opposite directions, so as to form a valley. -- Axis cylinder (Anat.), the neuraxis or essential, central substance of a nerve fiber; -- called also…

A transverse bar or shaft connecting the opposite wheels of a car or carriage; an axletree.

A bar or beam of wood or iron, connecting the opposite wheels of a carriage, on the ends of which the wheels revolve.

The part opposite to, or most remote from, that which fronts the speaker or actor; or the part out of sight, or not generally seen; as, the back of an island, of a hill, or of a village.

l, unfavorable, or defective, either physically or morally; evil; vicious; wicked; -- the opposite of good; as a bad man; bad conduct; bad habits; bad soil; bad health; bad crop; bad news.

Equipoise between the weights in opposite scales.

lt, sometimes richly ornamented, worn over one shoulder, across the breast, and under the opposite arm; less properly, any belt. [Also spelt bawdrick.] A radiant baldric o'er his shoulder tied Sustained the sword that glittered at his side. Pope.