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e formed by a right line with a curved line. -- Oblique angle, one acute or obtuse, in opposition to a right angle. -- Obtuse angle, one greater than a right angle, or more than 90º. -- Optic angle. See under Optic. -- Rectilineal or Right-lined angle, one formed by two right lines. -- Right angle, one formed by a…

Violent hatred leading to active opposition; active enmity; energetic dislike. Macaulay.

An electro-negative element, or the element which, in electro- chemical decompositions, is evolved at the anode; -- opposed to cation. Faraday.

Having ankles; -- used in composition; as, well-ankled. Beau. & Fl.

eak in length, while those of the female Culex are very short. They also assume different positions when resting, Culex usually holding the body parallel to the surface on which it rests and keeping the head and beak bent at an angle, while Anopheles holds the body at an angle with the surface and the head and beak in…

To be opposite, or to act in opposition.

Opposition of action; counteraction or contrariety of things or principles.

A muscle which acts in opposition to another; as a flexor, which bends a part, is the antagonist of an extensor, which extends it.

To act in opposition.

Contest; opposition; antagonism. [Obs.] Antagony that is between Christ and Belial. Milton.

Opposition to government in general. [R.]

A Latin preposition and prefix; akin to Gr. anti, Goth. and-, anda- (only in comp.), AS. and-, ond-, (only in comp.: cf. Answer, Along), G. ant-, ent- (in comp.). The Latin ante is generally used in the sense of before, in regard to position, order, or time, and the Gr. opposite, or in the place of.…

The first or conditional part of a hypothetical proposition; as, If the earth is fixed, the sun must move.

The arrangement of flowers in a cluster; the science of the relative position of flowers; inflorescence.

A prefix meaning against, opposite or opposed to, contrary, or in place of; -- used in composition in many English words. It is often shortened to ant-; as, antacid, antarctic.

Opposition to imperialism; -- applied specif., in the United States, after the Spanish-American war (1898), to the attitude or principles of those opposing territorial expansion; in England, of those, often called Little Englanders, opposing the extension of the empire and the closer relation of its parts, esp. in matt…

Opposition to, or hatred of, Semites, esp. Jews. -- An`ti- Sem"ite (#), n. -- An`ti-Sem*it"ic (#), a.

Opposition or contrariety to the Christian religion.

Opposition to the body politic of citizens. [Obs.] Carlyle.

Opposition to Freemasonry.