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happen; instinctive prevision; foretaste; antepast; as, the anticipation of the joys of heaven. The happy anticipation of renewed existence in company with the spirits of the just. Thodey.

ed in connection with the receiving apparatus for reading wireless signals. The electric waves falling on this contrivance increase its resistance several times. The anticoherer can be used in conjunction with a telephone.

Changing the direction in the spiral sequence of leaves on a stem.

Opposition of one law or rule to another law or rule. Different commentators have deduced from it the very opposite doctrines. In some instances this apparent antinomy is doubtful. De Quincey.

Having a natural contrariety, or constitutional aversion, to a thing; characterized by antipathy; -- often followed by to. Fuller.

Contrariety or opposition in feeling; settled aversion or dislike; repugnance; distaste. Inveterate antipathies against particular nations, and passionate attachments to others, are to be avoided. Washington.

Tending to interrupt or destroy social intercourse; averse to society, or hostile to its existence; as, antisocial principles.

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

A cavern. [Obs.] Shak.

A cavern or cavity, esp. an anatomical cavity or sinus. Huxley.

A tense in the Greek language, which expresses an action as completed in past time, but leaves it, in other respects, wholly indeterminate.

An aversion to the company of men; a love of solitude.

spair." Macaulay. A certain apathy or sluggishness in his nature which led him . . . to leave events to take their own course. Prescott. According to the Stoics, apathy meant the extinction of the passions by the ascendency of reason. Fleming.

y. "How he apes his sire." Addison. The people of England will not ape the fashions they have never tried. Burke.

Having no petals, or flower leaves. [See Illust. under Anther].

ein nearest the surface. [U.S.] Apex of the earth's motion (Astron.), that point of the heavens toward which the earth is moving in its orbit.

Turning away from the sun; -- said of leaves, etc. Darwin.

To shorten by aphesis. These words . . . have been aphetized. New Eng. Dict.

Destitute of leaves, as the broom rape, certain euphorbiaceous plants, etc.

Mammals which have no placenta.