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

In a reversed way.

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

A rustic; a countryman or laborer. "A peasant or churl." Spenser. Your rank is all reversed; let men of cloth Bow to the stalwart churls in overalls. Emerson.

one method, the film is sensitized with potassium dichromate and exposed to light under a reversed negative. After the dichromate has been washed out, the film is soaked in glycerin and water. As this treatment causes swelling in those parts of the film which have been acted on by light, a plate results from which impr…

, a. Etym: [L. conversus, p.p. of convertere. See Convert.] Turned about; reversed in order or relation; reciprocal; as, a converse proposition.

Capable of being converted or reversed. Hammond.

To march back, or to march in reversed order. The two armies marched and countermarched, drew near and receded. Macaulay.

Turned upside down from its proper position; inverted; reversed.

-- In force, or Of force, of unimpaired efficacy; valid; of full virtue; not suspended or reversed. "A testament is of force after men are dead." Heb. ix. 17. -- Metabolic force (Physiol.), the influence which causes and controls the metabolism of the body. -- No force, no matter of urgency or consequence; no account…

spended, as from the top of a wall. -- Hook motion (Steam Engin.), a valve gear which is reversed by V hooks. -- Hook squid, any squid which has the arms furnished with hooks, instead of suckers, as in the genera Enoploteuthis and Onychteuthis. -- Hook wrench, a wrench or spanner, having a hook at the end, instead o…

A figure in which the natural order of sense is reversed; hysterology; as, valet atque vivit, "he is well and lives."

Opposite in order, relation, or effect; reversed; inverted; reciprocal; -- opposed to direct.

A change by inverted order; a reversed position or arrangement of things; transposition. It is just the inversion of an act of Parliament; your lordship first signed it, and then it was passed among the Lords and Commons. Dryden.

Changed to a contrary or counterchanged order; reversed; characterized by inversion.

Incapable of being reversed or turned about or back; incapable of being made to run backward; as, an irreversible engine.

ly to the temperature of the cold chamber into which it is finally exhausted. This cycle, reversed, is used in refrigerating machines.

table connecting bar, called the link, in such a way that the motion of the engine can be reversed, or the cut-off varied, at will; -- used very generally in locomotives and marine engines.

e the weather by the arts of magic. -- Medicine seal, a small gem or paste engraved with reversed characters, to serve as a seal. Such seals were used by Roman physicians to stamp the names of their medicines.

A hardened steel roller having a design in relief, used for imprinting a reversed copy of the design in a softer metal, as copper.