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on in feeling; settled aversion or dislike; repugnance; distaste. Inveterate antipathies against particular nations, and passionate attachments to others, are to be avoided. Washington.

Good against gout. -- n.

Good against burns or pyrosis. -- n.

Good against the rickets.

A remedy against excessive salivation.

Good against spasms. -- n.

Good as a remedy against disease of the spleen. -- n.

The retort or turning of an adversary's plea against him.

Good against scrofulous disorders. Johnson. Wiseman.

Efficacious against syphilis. -- n.

An articular surface on the ilium of birds against which the great trochanter of the femur plays.

Good against venereal poison; antisyphilitic.

ating conspicuous or warning colors or structures indicative of special means of defense against enemies, as in the skunk.

To impeach; to accuse; to asperse; to inform against; to reproach. [Obs.] And oft of error did himself appeach. Spenser.

To charge with a crime; to accuse; to institute a private criminal prosecution against for some heinous crime; as, to appeal a person of felony.

Capable of being appealed against; that may be removed to a higher tribunal for decision; as, the cause is appealable.

gment as to the character of a person or a thing, an act or a state; as, appearances are against him. There was upon the tabernacle, as it were, the appearance of fire. Num. ix. 15. For man looketh on the outward appearance. 1 Sam. xvi. 7. Judge not according to the appearance. John. vii. 24.

One who appealed to a general council against the bull Unigenitus.

The person who is appealed against, or accused of crime; -- opposed to appellor. Blackstone.

n, or other significant sign. I would applaud thee to the very echo, That should applaud again. Shak.