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Opposition; contrariety. [Obs.] Wyclif. Adversity is not without comforts and hopes. Bacon.

o give forth; to supply, yield, or produce as the natural result, fruit, or issue; as, grapes afford wine; olives afford oil; the earth affords fruit; the sea affords an abundant supply of fish.

presenting various tints in the same specimen. Its colors are delicately arranged in stripes or bands, or blended in clouds.

A stove for heating a current of air which is directed against its surface by means of pipes, and then distributed through a building.

er plant (Hibiscus cannabinus), or its fiber, which is used throughout India for making ropes, cordage, and a coarse canvas and sackcloth; --called also brown Indian hemp.

Anything resembling an amphitheater in form; as, a level surrounded by rising slopes or hills, or a rising gallery in a theater.

render larger, more extended, or more intense, and the like; -- used especially of telescopes, microscopes, etc.

The spiritual meaning or application; esp. the application of the types and allegories of the Old Testament to subjects of the New.

Same as Anapest, Anapestic.

Having some portion of the floral envelopes attached to the pericarp to form the fruit, as in the checkerberry, the mulberry, and the pineapple.

, in the larval state, are very destructive to woolen goods, fur, etc. The common "museum pest" is A. varius; the carpet beetle is A. scrophulariæ. The larvæ are commonly confounded with moths.

Resembling man; -- applied especially to certain apes, as the ourang or gorilla. -- n.

The suborder of primates which includes the monkeys, apes, and man.

The manlike, or anthropoid, apes.

ng the figure of, or resemblance to, a man; as, an anthromorphous plant. "Anthromorphous apes." Darwin.

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

mana. The higher forms, the gorilla, chimpanzee, and ourang, are often called anthropoid apes or man apes.

One who apes.

A place where apes are kept. [R.] Kingsley.

it is by taking advantage of this fact that the best aplanatic object glasses of microscopes are constructed.