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To overthrow or subvert. [Obs.] Glanvill.

Complete overthrow; disorder; a turning upside down.

d; having a contrary or opposite direction; hence; opposite or contrary in kind; as, the reverse order or method. "A vice reverse unto this." Gower.

d; changed to the contrary; specifically (Bot. & Zoöl.), sinistrorse or sinistral; as, a reversed, or sinistral, spiral or shell.

In a reversed way.

Irreversible. [R.] A. SEward.

In a reverse manner; on the other hand; on the opposite. Bp. Pearson.

One who reverses.

facts arrives at principles and definitions, or infers causes from effects. This is the reverse of a priori reasoning.

med, or which infers effects from causes previously known; deductive or deductively. The reverse of a posteriori.

A current which periodically changes or reverses its direction of flow.

of three syllables, the first two short, or unaccented, the last long, or accented; the reverse of the dactyl. In Latin d, and in English in-ter-vene, are examples of anapests.

so as to charge a small storage battery; when there is a deficiency of power the dynamo reverses and acts as an auxiliary motor. Sometimes called Pieper system. -- Automixte car, etc.

rrant, issued in another county, to apprehend an offender. -- To back water (Naut.), to reverse the action of the oars, paddles, or propeller, so as to force the boat or ship backward.

during the exhaust or the compression stroke, tending to drive the piston in a direction reverse to that in which it should travel; also, an explosion in the exhaust passages of such ah engine.

ything which brings misfortune upon one, or causes failure in an effort or enterprise; a reverse. [Scot.]

ng or reflex motion caused in badly fitting machinery by irregularities in velocity or a reverse of motion.

In a contrary or reverse manner, way, or direction; contrarily; as, to read backwards. We might have . . . beat them backward home. Shak.

maginary symbols and quantities of algebra. -- Integral calculus, a method which in the reverse of the differential, the primary object of which is to learn from the known ratio of the indefinitely small changes of two or more magnitudes, the relation of the magnitudes themselves, or, in other words, from having the d…

t is called single transfer; if the image is afterward transferred in order to give an unreversed print, the method is called double transfer.