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Applied to the other of two things which are entirely different; other; as, the opposite sex; the opposite extreme.

To burn entirely; to be consumed. Shak.

Utterly; entirely. [Obs.] Chaucer.

To quench entirely; to extinguish. "The candlelight outquenched." Spenser.

allelism; involving parallelism. The antithetic or parallelistic form of Hebrew poetry is entirely lost. Milman.

Those who live within a polar circle, whose shadows, during some summer days, will move entirely round, falling toward every point of the compass.

imming larva of the coelenterates. It usually has a flattened oval or oblong form, and is entirely covered with cilia.

sometimes reach, a condition in which both representation and traditional decoration are entirely abolished and a work of art becomes a purely subjective expression in an arbitrary and personal language.

Completely; wholly; entirely; totally; perfectly; as, the work is not quite done; the object is quite accomplished; to be quite mistaken. Man shall not quite be lost, but saved who will. Milton. The same actions may be aimed at different ends, and arise from quite contrary principles. Spectator.

es. (b) A strong tackle from a wharf to a careened vessel, to prevent her from going over entirely, and to assist in righting her. Totten. Craig.

chiefly in the plural. "The remains of old Rome." Addison. When this remain of horror has entirely subsided. Burke.

Such a change of anything as destroys it, or entirely defeats its object, or unfits it for use; destruction; overthrow; as, the ruin of a ship or an army; the ruin of a constitution or a government; the ruin of health or hopes. "Ruin seize thee, ruthless king!" Gray.

Having the two flexor tendons of the toes entirely separate, and the flexor hallicus going to the first toe only.

natural science, and physical science. Voltaire hardly left a single corner of the field entirely unexplored in science, poetry, history, philosophy. J. Morley.

s of venomous aquatic snakes of the family Hydrophidæ, having a flattened tail and living entirely in the sea, especially in the warmer parts of the Indian and Pacific Oceans. They feed upon fishes, and are mostly of moderate size, but some species become eight or ten feet long and four inches broad.…

ling a number of one's assailants. -- To sell (anything) out, to dispose of it wholly or entirely; as, he had sold out his corn, or his interest in a business.

are abundant in nearly all parts of the world except the arctic regions, and feed almost entirely on vegetation; a land sanil.

Wholly; entirely; absolutely; quite; as, stark mind. Shak. Held him strangled in his arms till he was stark dead. Fuller. Stark naked, wholly naked; quite bare. Strip your sword stark naked. Shak.

lip-stop, or a front-stop, etc., as in p, t, d, etc.), or (b) so as to obstruct, but not entirely cut off, the passage, as in l, n, etc.; also, any of the consonants so formed. H. Sweet. Stop bead (Arch.), the molding screwed to the inner side of a window frame, on the face of the pulley stile, completing the groove i…

Entirely; totally. [Colloq.]