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Straight lines or planes which make angles in some respect opposite in character to those made by parallel lines or planes.

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

A musical response; alternate singing or chanting. See Antiphony, and Antiphone.

The response which one side of the choir makes to the other in a chant; alternate chanting or signing.

A book of antiphons. Chaucer.

A musical response; also, antiphonal chanting or signing.

Character of an antiquary; study or love of antiquities. Warburton.

Pertaining to, or characterized by, antonomasia. -- An`to*no*mas"tic*al*ly, adv.

One of the orders of amphibians characterized by the absence of a tail, as the frogs and toads. [Written also anoura.]

motragus tragelaphus) having a long mane on the breast and fore legs. It is, perhaps, the chamois of the Old Testament.

Paid; pleased. [Obs.] Chaucer.

To impair or become impaired; to injure. [Obs.] Chaucer.

In a state of separation, of exclusion, or of distinction, as to purpose, use, or character, or as a matter of thought; separately; independently; as, consider the two propositions apart.

A dupe. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Of, pertaining to, or designating, the Apennines, a chain of mountains extending through Italy.

Open; ev [Archaic] Fotherby.

An opening; an open space; a gap, cleft, or chasm; a passage perforated; a hole; as, an aperture in a wall. An aperture between the mountains. Gilpin. The back aperture of the nostrils. Owen.

r flakes in the mouth, on the lips, etc., terminating in white sloughs. They are commonly characteristic of thrush.

Pertaining to, or caused by, aphthæ; characterized by aphtæ; as, aphthous ulcers; aphthous fever.

Trimmed. [Obs.] Full fresh and new here gear apiked was. Chaucer.