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Pertaining to the antipodes; situated on the opposite side of the globe.

One of the antipodes; anything exactly opposite. In tale or history your beggar is ever the just antipode to your king. Lamb.

Pertaining to the antipodes, or the opposite side of the world; antipodal.

Those who live on the side of the globe diametrically opposite.

The opposite pole; anything diametrically opposed. Geo. Eliot.

he earth, living on different sides of the equator, whose shadows at noon are cast in opposite directions. The inhabitants of the north and south temperate zones are always Antiscians. Brande & C.

Opposite to the sun; -- said of the point in the heavens 180º distant from the sun.

A prominence on the lower posterior portion of the concha of the external ear, opposite the tragus. See Ear.

Those who live under the same meridian, but on opposite parallels of latitude, north and south of the equator.

A word of opposite meaning; a counterterm; -- used as a correlative of synonym. [R.] C. J. Smith.

That point of a planet's or comet's orbit which is most distant from the sun, the opposite point being the perihelion.

Want of love to mankind; -- the opposite of philanthropy. Coxe.

An allowance to a person, esp. to a public officer; a perquisite; -- properly only in the plural. [Obs.] An expense proportioned to his appointments and fortune is necessary. Chesterfield.

To place opposite or before; to put or apply (one thing to another). The nymph herself did then appose, For food and beverage, to him all best meat. Chapman.

crystalline lens and the cornea. (See Eye.) -- 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.

salt from which cream of tartar is prepared. It exists in the juice of grapes, and is deposited from wines on the sides of the casks. Ure.

A place where arms and instruments of war are deposited for safe keeping.

A genus of trees of the Olive family, having opposite pinnate leaves, many of the species furnishing valuable timber, as the European ash (Fraxinus excelsior) and the white ash (F. Americana). Prickly ash (Zanthoxylum Americanum) and Poison ash (Rhus venenata) are shrubs of different families, somewhat resembling the t…

The felonious removal of goods from the place where they were deposited.

In an authentic manner; with the requisite or genuine authority.