Counteracting or preventing hydrophobia. A remedy for hydrophobia.

Good against dropsy. A remedy for dropsy.

Tending to prevent sleep. An antihypnotic agent.

Counteractive of hypochondria. A remedy for hypochondria.

Counteracting hysteria. A remedy for hysteria.

Good against jaundice. A remedy for jaundice.

Certain books of the New Testament which were for a time not universally received, but which are now considered canonical. These are the Epistle to the Hebrews, the Epistles of James and Jude, the second Epistle of Peter, the second and third Epistles of John, and the Revelation. The undisputed books are called the Homologoumena.

A balancing; equipoise.

Tending to prevent the formation of urinary calculi, or to destroy them when formed. An antilithic medicine.

The number corresponding to a logarithm. The word has been sometimes, though rarely, used to denote the complement of a given logarithm; also the logarithmic cosine corresponding to a given logarithmic sine.

Of the contrary name or character; -- opposed to analogous.

A contradiction between any words or passages in an author.

A remedy against the plague.

Of or relating to the antelope.

A contradicter.

Contradiction.

Antihydrophobic.

A cover for the back or arms of a chair or sofa, etc., to prevent them from wear or from being soiled by macassar or other oil from the hair.

Opposed to the office or authority of magistrates.

Good against malaria.

A secondary mask, or grotesque interlude, between the parts of a serious mask.

One opposed to Freemasonry.

Opposition to Freemasonry.

Matter whch is composed of antiparticles such as antiprotons, positrons, and antineutrons.

Good against mephitic or deleterious gases. A remedy against mephitic gases.

One of the two halves of bilaterally symmetrical animals; one of any opposite symmetrical or homotypic parts in animals and plants.

A figure in which the same words or ideas are repeated in transposed order.

An antithesis in which the members are repeated in inverse order.

A modification of the quadrant, for measuring small angles.

An enemy to monarchial government.

A compound of antimonic acid with a base or basic radical.

Of or pertaining to antimony. A preparation or medicine containing antimony.

Combined or prepared with antimony; as, antimoniated tartar.

Pertaining to, or derived from, antimony; -- said of those compounds of antimony in which this element has its highest equivalence; as, antimonic acid.

Pertaining to, or derived from, antimony; -- said of those compounds of antimony in which this element has an equivalence next lower than the highest; as, antimonious acid.

A compound of antimonious acid and a base or basic radical.

Combined with or containing antimony; as, antimoniureted hydrogen.

The upper, contrary-moving current of the atmosphere over a monsoon.

An elementary substance, resembling a metal in its appearance and physical properties, but in its chemical relations belonging to the class of nonmetallic substances. Atomic weight, 120. Symbol, Sb.

one of several antibiotic substances produced by several species of Streptomyces, active against various fungi. They are used only experimentally, not in medicine. The two best-known antimycins are antimycin A1 (C28H40N2O9) and antimycin A3 (C26H36N2O9). They are notable for their mechanism of action, interference with the proton pumping mechanism of fungi.

Antagonistic to one's country or nation, or to a national government.

Counteracting, or deemed of use in, diseases of the kidneys. An antinephritic remedy.

The antiparticle of a neutrino. Each type of neutrino has a corresponding antineutrino.

The antiparticle of a neutron. It has the same mass as a neutron, but a spin and magnetic moment opposite that of the neutron.

One who maintains that, under the gospel dispensation, the moral law is of no use or obligation, but that faith alone is necessary to salvation. The sect of Antinomians originated with John Agricola, in Germany, about the year 1535.

The tenets or practice of Antinomians.

An Antinomian.

Opposition of one law or rule to another law or rule.

Pertaining to Antiochus, a contemporary with Cicero, and the founder of a sect of philosophers.

Efficacious in curing toothache. A remedy for toothache.

Tending to allay venereal excitement or desire; sedative.

Opposed to the pope or to popery.

Running in a contrary direction.

Straight lines or planes which make angles in some respect opposite in character to those made by parallel lines or planes.

Good against paralysis. A medicine for paralysis.

Antiparalytic.

A fundamental particle which has the same mass as one of the common fundamental particles, but which has an opposite charge, and for which certain other of the properties (e. g. baryon number, strangeness) may be opposite to that of the normal particle. The antiparticle to an electron is called a positron; the antiparticle to a proton is called an antiproton; the antiparticle to a neutron is called an antineutron. When a particle and its corresponding antiparticle collide, they typically annihilate each other with the production of large quantities of energy, usually in the form of radiation. The interaction of a proton and antiproton cause annihilation with production of mesons.

The Sunday after Easter; Low Sunday.

Having a natural contrariety, or constitutional aversion, to a thing; characterized by antipathy; -- often followed by to.

Belonging to antipathy; opposite; contrary; allopathic.

To feel or show antipathy.

Having a natural contrariety; adverse; antipathetic.

Contrariety or opposition in feeling; settled aversion or dislike; repugnance; distaste.

A product of gastric and pancreatic digestion, differing from hemipeptone in not being decomposed by the continued action of pancreatic juice.

A remedy possessing the property of preventing the return of periodic paroxysms, or exacerbations, of disease, as in intermittent fevers.

Opposed to, or checking motion; acting upward; -- applied to an inverted action of the intestinal tube.

Opposition by which the quality opposed acquires strength; resistance or reaction roused by opposition or by the action of an opposite principle or quality.

Pertaining to antiperistasis.

Standing before a petal, as a stamen.

Antidotal; alexipharmic.

An opposer of the theory of phlogiston.

Any medicine or diet which tends to check inflammation.

A musical response; alternate singing or chanting. See Antiphony, and Antiphone.

A book of antiphons or anthems.

A book containing a collection of antiphons; the book in which the antiphons of the breviary, with their musical notes, are contained.

The response which one side of the choir makes to the other in a chant; alternate chanting or signing.

A book of antiphons.

Antiphonal.

A musical response; also, antiphonal chanting or signing.

The use of words in a sense opposite to their proper meaning; as when a court of justice is called a court of vengeance.

Pertaining to antiphrasis.

Relieving or curing phthisis, or consumption. A medicine for phthisis.

Relieving flatulence; carminative.

Diminishing plasticity.

Good against gout. A medicine for gout.

Pertaining to the antipodes; situated on the opposite side of the globe.

One of the antipodes; anything exactly opposite.

Pertaining to the antipodes, or the opposite side of the world; antipodal.

Those who live on the side of the globe diametrically opposite.

The opposite pole; anything diametrically opposed.

One who is elected, or claims to be, pope in opposition to the pope canonically chosen; esp. applied to those popes who resided at Avignon during the Great Schism.

Of use in curing the itch. An antipsoric remedy.

The putting of one case for another.

Counteracting, or preserving from, putrefaction; antiseptic.

Checking or preventing suppuration. An antipyic medicine.

The condition or state of being free from fever.

Efficacious in preventing or allaying fever. A febrifuge.

An artificial alkaloid, believed to be efficient in abating fever.

Good against burns or pyrosis. Anything of use in preventing or healing burns or pyrosis.

An antiquary.

Character of an antiquary; study or love of antiquities.

To act the part of an antiquary.

One devoted to the study of ancient times through their relics, as inscriptions, monuments, remains of ancient habitations, statues, coins, manuscripts, etc.; one who searches for and studies the relics of antiquity.

To make old, or obsolete; to make antique; to make old in such a degree as to put out of use; hence, to make void, or abrogate.

Grown old. Hence: Bygone; obsolete; out of use; old-fashioned; as, an antiquated law.

Quality of being antiquated.

Antiquatedness.

The act of making antiquated, or the state of being antiquated.

In general, anything very old; but in a more limited sense, a relic or object of ancient art; collectively, the antique, the remains of ancient art, as busts, statues, paintings, and vases.

In an antique manner.

The quality of being antique; an appearance of ancient origin and workmanship.

An antiquary; a collector of antiques.

An admirer of antiquity. [Used by Milton in a disparaging sense.]

The quality of being ancient; ancientness; great age; as, a statue of remarkable antiquity; a family of great antiquity.

Good against the rickets.

One opposed to the payment of rent; esp. one of those who in 1840-47 resisted the collection of rents claimed by the patroons from the settlers on certain manorial lands in the State of New York.

One of a sect which opposes the observance of the Christian Sabbath.

Hostile to priests or the priesthood.

The inhabitants of the earth, living on different sides of the equator, whose shadows at noon are cast in opposite directions.

Anthelmintic.