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k-line game, any of eight spaces, 7 inches by 3½, lying along a cushion and bisected transversely by a balk line. Object balls in an anchor space are treated as in balk.

Experienced; versed. [Obs.] Though [he] was the youngest brother, yet he was the most ancient in the business of the realm. Berners.

Remarks by way of criticism and usually of censure; adverse criticism; reproof; blame. He dismissed their commissioners with severe and sharp animadversions. Clarendon.

One versed in the knowledge of animalcules. Keith.

against; as, antagonistic forces. -- An*tag`o*nis"tic*al*ly, adv. They were distinct, adverse, even antagonistic. Milman.

A description or definition contrary to that which is given by the adverse party. [R.]

Assuming man as the center or ultimate end; -- applied to theories of the universe or of any part of it, as the solar system. Draper.

One who is versed in anthropology.

One who is versed in anthropotomy, or human anatomy.

Having to opposite curvatures, that is, curved longitudinally in one direction and transversely in the opposite direction, as the surface of a saddle.

An antithesis in which the members are repeated in inverse order.

Having a natural contrariety; adverse; antipathetic. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl.

A verse said before and after the psalms. Shipley.

Tending to interrupt or destroy social intercourse; averse to society, or hostile to its existence; as, antisocial principles.

The repetition of words in an inverse order; as, the master of the servant and the servant of the master.

ajesty is used for a king, or when, instead of Aristotle, we say, the philosopher; or, conversely, the use of a proper name instead of an appellative, as when a wise man is called a Solomon, or an eminent orator a Cicero.

One not well versed in a subject; a tyro.

One well versed in the Arabic language or literature; also, formerly, one who followed the Arabic system of surgery.

One who is versed in, or studies, arachnology.

One who makes trees his study, or who is versed in the knowledge of trees. Howell.