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Of the contrary name or character; -- opposed to analogous. Antilogous pole (Eccl.), that pole of a crystal which becomes negatively electrified when heated.

The posterior opening of the alimentary canal, through which the excrements are expelled.

or estimation so obtained; an immediate apprehension or insight, appreciative rather than analytic.

To suit; to agree; to have some connection, agreement, or analogy; as, this argument applies well to the case.

A group of Turbellaria in which there is no anal aperture.

Without an anal office.

A canal or passage; as, the aqueduct of Sylvius, a channel connecting the third and fourth ventricles of the brain.

ingular, indicative mode, present tense, of the substantive verb Be; but formed after the analogy of the plural are, with the ending -t, as in thou shalt, wilt, orig. an ending of the second person sing. pret. Cf. Be. Now used only in solemn or poetical style.

Of or pertaining to a main channel (resembling an artery), as a river, canal, or railroad. Arterial blood, blood which has been changed and vitalized (arterialized) during passage through the lungs.

y colicky pains and diarrhea, caused by the presence of ascarids in the gastrointestinal canal.

The act or process of testing, esp. of analyzing or examining metals and ores, to determine the proportion of pure metal.

hearing, or to the sense or organs of hearing; as, the auditory nerve. See Ear. Auditory canal (Anat.), the tube from the auditory meatus or opening of the ear to the tympanic membrane.

, and pyrrol by replacement of the CH group by nitrogen; as, furo-monazole. Names exactly analogous to those for the azines are also used; as, oxazole, diazole, etc.

A bacchanal; a reveler. Croly.

A female bacchanal.

Bacchanalian.

off from the main body; as a compartment containing water for a wheel; the portion of a canal just outside of the gates of a lock, etc.

r the hinge of a bivalve. (e) The prolongation of certain univalve shells containing the canal.

loon, the braced wooden ring attached to the suspension ropes at the bottom, functionally analogous to the keel of a ship.

interference of sound waves of slightly different periods of vibrations; applied also, by analogy, to other kinds of wave motions; the pulsation or throbbing produced by the vibrating together of two tones not quite in unison. See Beat, v. i., 8.