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To place in front of, or over against; to set opposite; to exhibit. Her grace sat down . . . In a rich chair of state; opposing freely The beauty of her person to the people. Shak.

n of a heavenly body with respect to another when in the part of the heavens directly opposite to it; especially, the position of a planet or satellite when its longitude differs from that of the sun 180º; -- signified by the symbol as, .

Common; customary; usual. Shak. Method is not less reguisite in ordinary conversation that in writing. Addison.

int in which the three perpendiculars let fall from the angles of a triangle upon the opposite sides, or the sides produced, mutually intersect.

e rapid flow from the thinner to the thicker fluid was then called endosmose, and the opposite, slower current, exosmose. Both are, however, results of the same force. Osmose may be regarded as a form of molecular attraction, allied to that of adhesion.

one by dilute acid; in embryonic tissue, the substance in which the mineral salts are deposited to form bone; -- called also ostein. Chemically it is the same as collagen.

ocess, in the growth of an animal, by which inorganic material (mainly lime salts) is deposited in cartilage or membrane, forming bony tissue; ostosis.

A place where the bones of the dead are deposited; a charnel house. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

A hard substance, somewhat like bone, which is sometimes deposited within the pulp cavity of teeth.

Not this, but the contrary; opposite; as, the other side of a river.

The quality or state of being other or different; alterity; oppositeness.

That which goes out, or is paid out; outlay; expenditure; -- the opposite of Ant: income. Lowell.

A rope used for hauling out a sail upon a spar; -- opposite of inhaul.

From one person or place to another regarded as on the opposite side of a space or barrier; -- used with verbs of motion; as, to sail over to England; to hand over the money; to go over to the enemy. "We will pass over to Gibeah." Judges xix. 12. Also, with verbs of being: At, or on, the opposite side; as, the boat is…

Having a transverse position; placed or situated across; hence, opposite. "Our overthwart neighbors." Dryden.

A genus of composite plants (Buphthalmum) with large yellow flowers.

s; a place in a tidal river or other water on or near the seashore, where oysters are deposited to grow and fatten for market. See lst Scalp, n. -- Oyster catcher (Zoöl.), any one of several species of wading birds of the genus Hæmatopus, which frequent seashores and feed upon shellfish. The European species (H. ostra…

Two members of opposite parties or opinion, as in a parliamentary body, who mutually agree not to vote on a given question, or on issues of a party nature during a specified time; as, there were two pairs on the final vote. [Parliamentary Cant]

ring religious votary; especially, one who bore a branch of palm as a token that he had visited the Holy Land and its sacred places. Chaucer. Pilgrims and palmers plighted them together. P. Plowman. The pilgrim had some home or dwelling place, the palmer had none. The pilgrim traveled to some certain, designed place or…

The doctrine that all organisms must come from living parents; biogenesis; -- the opposite of Ant: spontaneous generation.