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Pertaining to, or derived from, antimony; -- said of those compounds of antimony in which this element has its highest equivalence; as, antimonic acid.

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

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

Those who live on the side of the globe diametrically opposite.

cted, or claims to be, pope in opposition to the pope canonically chosen; esp. applied to those popes who resided at Avignon during the Great Schism.

One opposed to the payment of rent; esp. one of those who in 1840-47 resisted the collection of rents claimed by the patroons from the settlers on certain manorial lands in the State of New York. -- An`ti*rent"ism, n.

Those who live under the same meridian, but on opposite parallels of latitude, north and south of the equator.

Earnestly desirous; as, anxious to please. He sneers alike at those who are anxious to preserve and at those who are eager for reform. Macaulay.

A depth of water so great that only those organisms can exist that do not assimilate.

Applied or put to some use. Those applicate sciences which extend the power of man over the elements. I. Taylor. Applicate number (Math.), one which applied to some concrete case. -- Applicate ordinate, right line applied at right angles to the axis of any conic section, and bounded by the curve.

ot perfectly accurate; as, approximate results or values. Approximate quantities (Math.), those which are nearly, but not, equal.

e space between the crystalline lens and the cornea. (See Eye.) -- Aqueous rocks (Geol.), those which are deposited from water and lie in strata, as opposed to volcanic rocks, which are of igneous origin; -- called also sedimentary rocks.

he species are confined mostly to South America and Australia. The wood cells differ from those of other in having the dots in their lateral surfaces in two or three rows, and the dots of contiguous rows alternating. The seeds are edible.

Steep and lofty, in a literal sense; hard to climb. Those arduous pats they trod. Pope.

in color or structure, as the spaces bounded by the nervures of the wings of insects, or those by the veins of leaves; an areola.

A species of shell (Cypræa argus), beautifully variegated with spots resembling those in a peacock's tail.

es or chief persons in a state; a privileged class or patrician order; (in a popular use) those who are regarded as superior to the rest of the community, as in rank, fortune, or intellect.

branches, such as engineers, medical corps, etc., besides the staff organizations such as those of the pay and subsistence departments.

A rude apparatus for pulverizing ores, esp. those containing free gold.

Pertaining to, or derived from, arsenic; -- said of those compounds of arsenic in which this element has its highest equivalence; as, arsenic acid.