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The defendant in an appeal; -- opposed to appellant.

To raise the value of; to increase the market price of; -- opposed to depreciate. [U.S.] Lest a sudden peace should appreciate the money. Ramsay.

A rise in value; -- opposed to depreciation.

ave no series of columns along their sides, but are either prostyle or amphiprostyle, and opposed to peripteral. R. Cyc.

Destitute of winglike membranous expansions, as a stem or petiole; -- opposed to atate.

ye.) -- Aqueous rocks (Geol.), those which are deposited from water and lie in strata, as opposed to volcanic rocks, which are of igneous origin; -- called also sedimentary rocks.

Hogging; -- opposed to sagging.

e bar at which it is raised, in beating time; the weak or unaccented part of the bar; - - opposed to thesis. Moore.

ing; artifice; craft. Madam, I swear I use no art at all. Shak. Animals practice art when opposed to their superiors in strength. Crabb.

asymmetrical and paired with the fourth digit, as in the hog, the sheep, and the ox; - - opposed to Perissodactyla.

To move upward; to mount; to go up; to rise; -- opposed to Ant: descend. Higher yet that star ascends. Bowring. I ascend unto my father and your father. John xx. 17.

es in genealogy or degrees of kindred; a relative in the ascending line; a progenitor; -- opposed to descendant. Ayliffe.

acent to water; to the shore; to the land; aground (when applied to a ship); -- sometimes opposed to aboard or afloat. Here shall I die ashore. Shak. I must fetch his necessaries ashore. Shak.

Roughness of surface; unevenness; -- opposed to smoothness. "The asperities of dry bodies." Boyle.

Asserting that a thing is; -- opposed to problematical and apodeictical.

n, a corporation, or an estate; as, the assets of a merchant or a trading association; -- opposed to liabilities.

One of a body of devoted Jews who opposed the Hellenistic Jews, and supported the Asmoneans.

Drawing together the tissues; binding; contracting; -- opposed to laxative; as, astringent medicines; a butter and astringent taste; astringent fruit.

Building up; constructive; -- opposed to destructive. [Obs.]

Not simultaneous; not concurrent in time; --opposed to synchronous.