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a poem characterized by sustained noble sentiment and appropriate dignity of style. Hangs odes upon hawthorns and elegies on brambles. Shak. O! run; prevent them with thy humble ode, And lay it lowly at his blessed feet. Milton. Ode factor, one who makes, or who traffics in, odes; -- used contemptuously.…

A little or short ode.

The lower house of the Norwegian Storthing. See Legislature.

mitted their works to the approval of the public, and contended for prizes; -- hence, in modern usage, the name of a hall for musical or dramatic performances.

See Odeon.

Act of waiting; delay. [Obs.] Shak. And with her fled away without abode. Spenser.

A foreboding; an omen. [Obs.] "Abodements must not now affright us." Shak.

Dextrin not colorable by iodine. See Dextrin.

An isolated point not upon a curve, but whose coördinates satisfy the equation of the curve so that it is considered as belonging to the curve.

According to the fashion or prevailing mode. "Alamode beef shops." Macaulay.

Not apodeictic; undemonstrable. [R.]

The positive pole of a voltaic battery.

The positive pole of an electric battery, or more strictly the electrode by which the current enters the electrolyte on its way to the other pole; -- opposed to cathode.

The part of a vacuum tube opposite the cathode. Upon it the cathode rays impinge.

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.

contrary. Can there be a greater contrariety unto Christ's judgment, a more perfect antipodes to all that hath hitherto been gospel Hammond.

An alkaloid, , prepared from codeine. In its effects it resembles apomorphine.

One of certain animals that have no feet or footlike organs; esp. one of certain fabulous birds which were said to have no feet.

Self-evident; intuitively true; evident beyond contradiction. Brougham. Sir Wm. Hamilton.