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Throw :: Throw (v. t.) To twist two or more filaments of, as silk, so as to form one thread; to twist together, as singles, in a direction contrary to the twist of the singles themselves; -- sometimes applied to the whole class of operations by which silk is prepared for the weaver..

Counterplead :: Counterplead (v. t.) To plead the contrary of; to plead against; to deny.

Oxymoron :: Oxymoron (n.) A figure in which an epithet of a contrary signification is added to a word; e. g., cruel kindness; laborious idleness..

Eddy :: Eddy (n.) A current of air or water running back, or in a direction contrary to the main current..

Retrograde :: Retrograde (a.) Apparently moving backward, and contrary to the succession of the signs, that is, from east to west, as a planet..

Unfathered :: Unfathered (a.) Having no father; fatherless; hence, born contrary to nature..

Unnature :: Unnature (n.) The contrary of nature; that which is unnatural.

Estoppel :: Estoppel (n.) A stop; an obstruction or bar to one's alleging or denying a fact contrary to his own previous action, allegation, or denial; an admission, by words or conduct, which induces another to purchase rights, against which the party making such admission can not take a position inconsistent with the admission..

Subcontraries :: Subcontrary (a.) Denoting the relation of opposition between the particular affirmative and particular negative. Of these both may be true and only one can be false.

Counternatural :: Counternatural (a.) Contrary to nature.

Crossgrained :: Crossgrained (a.) Perverse; untractable; contrary.

Antipodes :: Antipodes (n.) Anything exactly opposite or contrary.

Counter :: Counter (adv.) In the wrong way; contrary to the right course; as, a hound that runs counter..

Ill :: Ill (n.) Whatever is contrary to good, in a moral sense; wickedness; depravity; iniquity; wrong; evil..

Cynic :: Cynic (n.) One who holds views resembling those of the Cynics; a snarler; a misanthrope; particularly, a person who believes that human conduct is directed, either consciously or unconsciously, wholly by self-interest or self-indulgence, and that appearances to the contrary are superficial and untrustworthy..

Countermove :: Countermove (v. t. & i.) To move in a contrary direction to.

Disgospel :: Disgospel (v. i.) To be inconsistent with, or act contrary to, the precepts of the gospel; to pervert the gospel..

Absurd :: Absurd (a.) Contrary to reason or propriety; obviously and fiatly opposed to manifest truth; inconsistent with the plain dictates of common sense; logically contradictory; nonsensical; ridiculous; as, an absurd person, an absurd opinion; an absurd dream..

Smuggle :: Smuggle (v. t.) To import or export secretly, contrary to the law; to import or export without paying the duties imposed by law; as, to smuggle lace..

Renverse :: Renverse (a.) Reversed; set with the head downward; turned contrary to the natural position.

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