Word Meanings - MESIAD - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Toward, or on the side toward, the mesial plane; mesially; -- opposed to laterad.

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• PLANE TREE
  See PLANE
• OPPOSABILITY
  The condition or quality of being opposable. In no savage have I ever seen the slightest approach to opposability of the great toe, which is the essential distinguishing feature of apes. A. R. Wallace.
• TOWARD; TOWARDS
  1. In the direction of; to. He set his face toward the wilderness. Num. xxiv. 1. The waves make towards'' the pebbled shore. Shak. 2. With direction to, in a moral sense; with respect or reference to; regarding; concerning. His eye shall be evil
• OPPOSITIONIST
  One who belongs to the opposition party. Praed.
• TOWARDS
  See TOWARD
• MESIAL
  Middle; median; in, or in the region of, the mesial plane; internal; -- opposed to lateral. Mesial plane. See Meson.
• TOWARDNESS
  Quality or state of being toward.
• OPPOSITIVE
  Capable of being put in opposition. Bp. Hall.
• OPPOSELESS
  Not to be effectually opposed; irresistible. "Your great opposeless wills." Shak.
• PLANETULE
  A little planet. Conybeare.
• PLANE-PARALLEL
  Having opposite surfaces exactly plane and parallel, as a piece of glass.
• MESIALLY
  In, near, or toward, the mesial plane; mesiad.
• OPPOSITIFOLIOUS
  Placed at the same node with a leaf, but separated from it by the whole diameter of the stem; as, an oppositifolious peduncle.
• PLANETED
  Belonging to planets. Young.
• PLANETOIDAL
  Pertaining to a planetoid.
• OPPOSABLE
  1. Capable of being opposed or resisted. 2. Capable of being placed opposite something else; as, the thumb is opposable to the forefinger.
• TOWARDLY
  See DRYDEN
• OPPOSE
  1. To place in front of, or over against; to set opposite; to exhibit. Her grace sat down . . . In a rich chair of state; opposing freely The beauty of her person to the people. Shak. 2. To put in opposition, with a view to counterbalance
• OPPOSITISEPALOUS
  Placed in front of a sepal.
• TOWARDLINESS
  The quality or state of being towardly; docility; tractableness. The beauty and towardliness of these children moved her brethren to envy. Sir W. Raleigh.
• HYDROBIPLANE
  A hydro-aëroplane having two supporting planes.
• CONVEXO-PLANE
  Convex on one side, and flat on the other; plano-convex.
• DOORPLANE
  A plane on a door, giving the name, and sometimes the employment, of the occupant.
• CAPPING PLANE
  A plane used for working the upper surface of staircase rails.
• VOLPLANE
  To glide in a flying machine.
• INTERPLANETARY
  Between planets; as, interplanetary spaces. Boyle.