against (see also the aphetic form 'GAINST)
1.
exposed
to
Sonn. lxxiii. 3
“those boughs which
shake against the cold.”
2.
in expectation of, in
time for AYL. IV. i. 158, Troil. I. ii. 189, Rom. IV. ii. 47,
Ham. II. ii. 513
“as we often see, some
storm, A silence in the heavens.”
3.
as conj.: in
expectation of the time when, by the time that
MND. III. ii. 99
“against she do
appear,”
Shr. IV. iv.
104.
