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Counteractive of bilious complaints; tending to relieve biliousness.

Of or pertaining to an antitype; explaining the type. -- An`ti*typ"ic*al*ly, adv.

Clear or manifest to the understanding; plain; evident; obvious; known; palpable; indubitable. It is apparent foul play. Shak.

Plainly; clearly; manifestly; evidently. If he should scorn me so apparently. Shak.

Plainness to the eye or the mind; visibleness; obviousness. [R.] Sherwood.

a connecting word between them; as, I admire Cicero, the orator. Here, the second noun explains or characterizes the first. Growth by apposition (Physiol.), a mode of growth characteristic of non vascular tissues, in which nutritive matter from the blood is transformed on the surface of an organ into solid unorganized…

To tell, declare, explain, or interpret; to divine; to guess; as, to aread a riddle or a dream. [Obs.] Therefore more plain aread this doubtful case. Spenser.

figuratively, purity, innocence, beauty, or gentleness; -- represented in engraving by a plain white surface. Weale.

A thick plain silk, generally black, and used for clerical. Simmonds.

a prisoner at the bar of a court to answer to the matter charged in an indictment or complaint. Blackstone.

he act of calling and setting a prisoner before a court to answer to an indictment or complaint.

; sincere; guileless; ingenuous; honest; as, an artless mind; an artless tale. They were plain, artless men, without the least appearance of enthusiasm or credulity about them. Porteus. O, how unlike the complex works of man, Heaven's easy, artless, unencumbered plan! Cowper.

Prognostication by inspection of the entrails of victims slain sacrifice.

To affirm; to declare with assurance, or plainly and strongly; to state positively; to aver; to asseverate. Nothing is more shameful . . . than to assert anything to be done without a cause. Ray.

One who explains the higher functions and relations of the soul by the association of ideas; e. g., Hartley, J. C. Mill.

Plainness; freedom from adornment; severe simplicity. Partly owing to the studied austerity of her dress, and partly to the lack of demonstration in her manners. Hawthorne.

To defeat or evade; to invalidate. Thus, in a replication, the plaintiff may deny the defendant's plea, or confess it, and avoid it by stating new matter. Blackstone.

ard to the nature of the case; to adjudge; as, the arbitrators awarded damages to the complainant. To review The wrongful sentence, and award a new. Dryden.

whose truth is so evident as first sight that no reasoning or demonstration can make it plainer; a proposition which it is necessary to take for granted; as, "The whole is greater than a part;" "A thing can not, at the same time, be and not be."

A coarse woolen stuff with a long nap; -- usually dyed in plain colors. A new black baize waistcoat lined with silk. Pepys.