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A tropical wind blowing steadily in a direction opposite to the trade wind.

Facing toward the axis of the flower, as in the introrse anthers of the water lily.

ony; -- said of those compounds of antimony in which this element has an equivalence next lower than the highest; as, antimonious acid.

The Sunday after Easter; Low Sunday.

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

Diametrically opposite. His antipodal shadow." Lowell.

Checking the flow of saliva.

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

Resisting blows; hard. [Obs.] Cudworth.

A vassal or voluntary follower of Frankish princes in their enterprises.

Expressing an indefinite comparison; -- with as or like. [Colloq. or Lowx] I fear your girl will grow as proud as anything. Richardson.

To mimic, as an ape imitates human actions; to imitate or follow servilely or irrationally. "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].

A nonmotile gamete, found in certain lower algæ.

A follower of Apollinaris, Bishop of Laodicea in the fourth century, who denied the proper humanity of Christ.

The small hollow curvature given to the top or bottom of the shaft of a column where it expands to meet the edge of the fillet; -- called also the scape. Parker.

nts; to cover with something ornamental; to deck; to embellish; as, trees appareled with flowers, or a garden with verdure. Appareled in celestial light. Wordsworth.

rt for a rehearing or review on account of alleged injustice or illegality in the trial below. We say, the cause was appealed from an inferior court.

ing the time it occupies from that; a short auxiliary or grace note one degree above or below the principal note unless it be of the same harmony; -- generally indicated by a note of smaller size, as in the illustration above. It forms no essential part of the harmony.

An allowance to a person, esp. to a public officer; a perquisite; -- properly only in the plural. [Obs.] An expense proportioned to his appointments and fortune is necessary. Chesterfield.