A hymenopterous insect of the Linn/an genus Formica, which is now made a family of several genera; an emmet; a pismire.

See Ant bird, under Ant, n.

See Anti-, prefix.

An edentate animal of tropical America (the Tamanoir), living on ants. It belongs to the genus Myrmecophaga.

Various kinds of plant lice or aphids tended by ants for the sake of the honeydew which they secrete; plural of ant cow. See Aphips.

One of several species of edentates and monotremes that feed upon ants. See Ant-bear, Pangolin, Aard-vark, and Echidna.

A mound thrown up by ants or by termites in forming their nests.

A neuropterous insect, the larva of which makes in the sand a pitfall to capture ants, etc. The common American species is Myrmeleon obsoletus, the European is Myrmeleon formicarius.

A species of pier produced by thickening a wall at its termination, treated architecturally as a pilaster, with capital and base.

A remedy for neutralizing acidity, especially of the stomach, as an alkali or absorbent. Counteractive of acidity.

Corrective of acrimony of the humors.

Pertaining to Antaeus, a giant athlete slain by Hercules.

Opposition of action; counteraction or contrariety of things or principles.

One who contends with another, especially in combat; an adversary; an opponent.

Antagonistic; opposing; counteracting; as, antagonist schools of philosophy.

Opposing in combat, combating; contending or acting against; as, antagonistic forces.

muscles having opposite effects; the contraction of one neutralizes the contraction of the other.

To act in opposition.

Contest; opposition; antagonism.

Alleviating pain. A medicine to alleviate pain; an analgesic.

Of power to counteract alkalies.

Anything that neutralizes, or that counteracts an alkaline tendency in the system.

Away from the ambulacral region.

A figure which consists in repeating the same word in a different sense; as, Learn some craft when young, that when old you may live without craft. A repetition of words beginning a sentence, after a long parenthesis; as, Shall that heart (which not only feels them, but which has all motions of life placed in them), shall that heart, etc.

A figure which consists in answering the charge of an adversary, by a counter charge.

The capital city of Madagascar. Population (2000) = 1,000,000.

Antaphrodisiac.

An antaphroditic medicine.

Alleviating apoplexy. A medicine used for alleviating apoplexy.

Opposition to government in general.

One who opposes all government.

Opposed to all human government.

Opposite to the northern or arctic pole; relating to the southern pole or to the region near it, and applied especially to a circle, distant from the pole 23/ 28/. Thus we say the antarctic pole, circle, ocean, region, current, etc.

The principal star in Scorpio: -- called also the Scorpion's Heart.

Alleviating arthritis. A remedy for alleviating arthritis.

Opposing, or fitted to relieve, asthma. A remedy for asthma.

Opposing, or fitted to relieve, asthma. A remedy for asthma.

To put up (an ante).

A preceding act.

Being before, or in front.

belonging to a period before a war, especially the American Civil War.

Antecedent; preceding in time.

To go before in time or place; to precede; to surpass.

The act or state of going before in time; precedence.

The state or condition of being antecedent; priority.

That which goes before in time; that which precedes.

Previously; before in time; at a time preceding; as, antecedently to conversion.

One who goes before; a predecessor.

A chamber or apartment before the chief apartment and leading into it, in which persons wait for audience; an outer chamber. See Lobby.

The outer part of the west end of a collegiate or other chapel.

A space inclosed or reserved at the entrance to the choir, for the clergy and choristers. Where a choir is divided, as in some Spanish churches, that division of it which is the farther from the sanctuary.

See Ant/cians.

A name given to that part of the Anglican liturgy for the communion, which precedes the consecration of the elements.

A forerunner; a precursor.

To date before the true time; to assign to an earlier date; ; thus, to antedate a deed or a bond is to give it a date anterior to the true time of its execution.

Before the flood, or Deluge, in Noah's time.

Of or relating to the period before the Deluge in Noah's time; hence, antiquated; as, an antediluvian vehicle. One who lived before the Deluge.

A genus formerly called genus Comatula.

A natural family of feather stars; formerly called family Comatulidae.

Something done before another act.

A displacement forward of an organ, esp. the uterus, in such manner that its axis is bent upon itself.

One of a group of ruminant quadrupeds, intermediate between the deer and the goat. The horns are usually annulated, or ringed. There are many species in Africa and Asia.

Held or being before light; -- a word applied to assemblies of Christians, in ancient times of persecution, held before light in the morning.

Being before noon; in or pertaining to the forenoon. (Abbrev. a. m.)

Tending to check vomiting. A remedy to check or allay vomiting.

Being before the time of Moses.

Being or occurring before the creation of the world.

An outwork of a strong, high wall, with turrets, in front of the gateway (as of an old castle), for defending the entrance.

Before birth.

Of or in the Christian church or era, anterior to the first council of Nice, held a. d. 325; as, antenicene faith.

A movable, articulated organ of sensation, attached to the heads of insects and Crustacea. There are two in the former, and usually four in the latter. They are used as organs of touch, and in some species of Crustacea the cavity of the ear is situated near the basal joint. In insects, they are popularly called horns, and also feelers. The term in also applied to similar organs on the heads of other arthropods and of annelids.

Belonging to the antenn/.

Bearing or having antenn/.

Shaped like antenn/.

A small antenna; -- applied to the smaller pair of antenn/ or feelers of Crustacea.

A number that precedes another.

Preceding marriage; as, an antenuptial agreement.

Same as Antorbital.

Pertaining to the time before the Passover, or before Easter.

A foretaste.

The hangings or screen in front of the altar; an altar cloth; the frontal.

The last syllable of a word except two, as -syl- in monosyllable.

Of or pertaining to the last syllable but two. The antepenult.

Good against nightmare. A remedy nightmare.

Good against epilepsy. A medicine for epilepsy.

To put before; to prefer.

An outer port, gate, or door.

An outer porch or vestibule.

The placing of a before another, which, by ordinary rules, ought to follow it.

Preceding dinner.

A prerequisite to a clear understanding of the predicaments and categories, such as definitions of common terms.

Before in time; antecedent.

The state of being anterior or preceding in time or in situation; priority.

In an anterior manner; before.

A room before, or forming an entrance to, another; a waiting room.

Ant/. See Anta.

A small intrenchment or work of palisades, or of sacks of earth.

A cavity which leads into the stomach, as in birds.

The portico, or narthex in an ancient temple or church.

A displacement of an organ, esp. of the uterus, in such manner that its whole axis is directed further forward than usual.

To prevent.

A halo opposite the sun, consisting of a colored ring or rings around the shadow of the spectator's own head, as projected on a cloud or on an opposite fog bank.

Same as Antihelix.

capable of expelling or destroying parasitic worms. An anthelmintic remedy.

To celebrate with anthems.

Chamomile; a genus of composite, herbaceous plants.

Alternately.

That part of the stamen containing the pollen, or fertilizing dust, which, when mature, is emitted for the impregnation of the ovary.

a genus of large moths whose larvae produce silk of high quality.

capable of fertilizing female organs.

a genus of Old World (mainly African) perennial herbs; sometimes placed in family Asphodelaceae.

a gametophore bearing antheridia as in certain mosses and liverworts.

The male reproductive apparatus in the lower plants, consisting of a cell or other cavity in which spermatozoids are produced; -- called also spermary.

Producing anthers, as plants. Supporting anthers, as a part of a flower.

Shaped like an anther; anther-shaped.

Transformed from anthers, as the petals of a double flower.

Resembling an anther.

One of the mobile male reproductive bodies in the antheridia of cryptogams.

The period or state of full expansion in a flower.

A beetle which feeds on flowers.