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A name sometimes given to that dialect of the Celtic which is spoken in the Highlands of Scotland; -- called, by the Highlanders, Gaelic.

To absterge; to cleanse; to purge away. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

ing against, or in a contrary direction; opposed; contrary; opposite; conflicting; as, adverse winds; an adverse party; a spirit adverse to distinctions of caste.

In an adverse manner; inimically; unfortunately; contrariwise.

The quality or state of being adverse; opposition.

nd reproducing the primary sensation in positive, negative, or complementary form. The aftersensation may be continuous with the primary sensation or follow it after an interval.

Anniversary. [Obs.] Dryden.

rges; to tarnish in point of reputation or good name; to slander or calumniate; as, to asperse a poet or his writings; to asperse a man's character. With blackest crimes aspersed. Cowper.

Having an indefinite number of small charges scattered or strewed over the surface. Cussans.

One who asperses; especially, one who vilifies another.

Turned away or backward. [Obs.] The tracks averse a lying notice gave, And led the searcher backward from the cave. Dryden.

Backward; in a backward direction; as, emitted aversely.

The quality of being averse; opposition of mind; unwillingness.

An Egyptian clover (Trifolium alexandrinum) extensively cultivated as a forage plant and soil-renewing crop in the alkaline soils of the Nile valley, and now introduced into the southwestern United States. It is more succulent than other clovers or than alfalfa. Called also Egyptian clover.

One who fights as if frenzied, like a Berserker.

Complete overthrow; disorder; a turning upside down.

To dispute; to controvert. [Obs.] "Controversed causes." Hooker.

A disputant. [Obs.]

te intercourse; to commune; -- followed by with. To seek the distant hills, and there converse With nature. Thomson. Conversing with the world, we use the world's fashions. Sir W. Scott. But to converse with heaven -This is not easy. Wordsworth.

In a converse manner; with change of order or relation; reciprocally. J. S. Mill.