Word Meanings - MESIAD - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Toward, or on the side toward, the mesial plane; mesially; -- opposed to laterad.
Related words: (words related to MESIAD)
- 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-aƫroplane 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.