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or familiar, as the result of experience, study, practice, etc.; skilled; practiced. Deep versed in books and shallow in himself. Milton. Opinions . . . derived from studying the Scriptures, wherein he was versed beyond any person of his age. Southey. These men were versed in the details of business. Macaulay.…

The versed sine of the complement of an arc or angle. See Illust. of Functions.

Turned aside. [Obs.]

Perversely. [Obs.]

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

In a reversed way.

One versed in acoustics. Tyndall.

One fully skilled or well versed in anything; a proficient; as, adepts in philosophy.

One versed in aëography: an aërologist.

One versed in aërology.

Of or Pertaining to æsthetics; versed in æsthetics; as, æsthetic studies, emotions, ideas, persons, etc. -- Æs*thet"ic*al*ly, adv.

One versed in æsthetics.

One versed or engaged in agriology.

One versed in agronomy; a student of agronomy.

One versed in algebra.

Experienced; versed. [Obs.] Though [he] was the youngest brother, yet he was the most ancient in the business of the realm. Berners.

One versed in the knowledge of animalcules. Keith.

One who is versed in anthropology.

One who is versed in anthropotomy, or human anatomy.

One not well versed in a subject; a tyro.