appose
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Last week, as the bandages came off after a minor operation, Terry could appose his thumb well enough to hold his fork in his left hand.
From Time Magazine Archive
The nymph herself did then appose, For food and beverage, to him all best meat.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Webster, Noah
In a will of James I.'s reign, the curate of a parish is to appose the children of a charity-school.
From A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 9 by Various
To appose him without any accuser, and that secretly.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Webster, Noah
It seems to be abbreviated from the old verb "to appose;" which meant, to set a task, to subject to an examination or interrogatory; and hence to perplex, to embarrass, to puzzle.
From Notes and Queries, Number 66, February 1, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Bell, George
Although some pericytes may slightly move away from capillaries after hypoxia or brain injury, we only counted pericytes apposed to capillaries in this study.
From Nature ● Apr. 4, 2014
Hydrophobic amino acids are found in the domains that are apposed to the hydrocarbon tails of the phospholipids.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 19, 2013
Also shown is LTC Dave Spencer, team leader who prefers the percussion method as apposed to my traditional stlye.
From Time Magazine Archive
After coffee, Watson capitulated: perhaps the backbone was on the outside, and the bases—A, T, G, and C—faced in, apposed against each other.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
Stomach and Intestine.—Provided the peritoneal surfaces are accurately apposed, wounds of the stomach and intestine heal with great rapidity.
From Manual of Surgery Volume First: General Surgery. Sixth Edition. by Thomson, Alexis
In this sense, the Art of Fugue and the St. Matthew Passion were, for the evolving organism of human thought, feathered wings, apposing thumbs, new layers of frontal cortex.
From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas
The geometer is always talking of squaring, subtending, apposing, as if he had in view action; whereas knowledge is the real object of the study.
From The Republic by Jowett, Benjamin
Carpal luxation when present is to be recognized by finding the apposing carpal bones joined in an abnormal manner—that is, out of position.
From Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1 by Lacroix, John Victor
The external surface of the process presented an area of attachment for muscles arising from the apposing internal surface of the cheek.
From The Adductor Muscles of the Jaw In Some Primitive Reptiles by Fox, Richard C.
