The serum of blood rendered antitoxic to a venom by repeated injections of small doses of the venom; also, the component of such a serum which is antitoxic to the venom.

Opposition to vivisection.

One opposed to vivisection

Preventing fermentation.

Preventing fermentation or decomposition. An agent so used.

The entire horn, or any branch of the horn, of a cervine animal, as of a stag.

Furnished with antlers.

The spiral tubular proboscis of lepidopterous insects. See Lepidoptera.

Those who live under the same meridian, but on opposite parallels of latitude, north and south of the equator.

The use of some epithet or the name of some office, dignity, or the like, instead of the proper name of the person; as when his majesty is used for a king, or when, instead of Aristotle, we say, the philosopher; or, conversely, the use of a proper name instead of an appellative, as when a wise man is called a Solomon, or an eminent orator a Cicero.

Pertaining to, or characterized by, antonomasia.

Antonomasia.

A word of opposite meaning; a counterterm; -- used as a correlative of synonym.

Pertaining to, or situated in, the region of the front of the orbit. The antorbital bone.

See Antiorgastic.

A compound formerly supposed to be modification of oxygen, but now known to be hydrogen dioxide; -- so called because apparently antagonistic to ozone, converting it into ordinary oxygen.

Relating to an antrum.

A cavern.

Forward or upward in direction.

To bend forward.

A cavern or cavity, esp. an anatomical cavity or sinus

A vassal or voluntary follower of Frankish princes in their enterprises

An Egyptian deity, the conductor of departed spirits to judgment, represented by a human figure with the head of a jackal, dog or fox.

any of a group of powerful earth spirits or genii; servitors of the gods.

One of the orders of amphibians characterized by the absence of a tail, as the frogs and toads.

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inability to urinate.

inability to urinate.

of or pertaining to anuresis.

Destitute of a tail, as the frogs and toads.

Nonsecretion or defective secretion of urine; ischury.

The posterior opening of the alimentary canal, through which the excrements are expelled.

To form or shape on an anvil; to hammer out; as, anviled armor.

The state of being anxious; anxiety.

Concern or solicitude respecting some thing or event, future or uncertain, which disturbs the mind, and keeps it in a state of painful uneasiness.

Full of anxiety or disquietude; greatly concerned or solicitous, esp. respecting something future or unknown; being in painful suspense; -- applied to persons; as, anxious for the issue of a battle.

In an anxious manner; with painful uncertainty; solicitously.

The quality of being anxious; great solicitude; anxiety.

To any extent; in any degree; at all.

Any one out of an indefinite number of persons; anyone; any person.

In any way or manner whatever; at any rate; in any event.

One taken at random rather than by selection; anybody. [Commonly written as two words.]

In any measure; anywise; at all.

One who holds to no particular creed or dogma.

Anywise; at all.

In any place.

To or towards any place.

In any wise or way; at all.

Pertaining to Aonia, in B/otia, or to the Muses, who were supposed to dwell there.

A tense in the Greek language, which expresses an action as completed in past time, but leaves it, in other respects, wholly indeterminate.

Indefinite; pertaining to the aorist tense.

The great artery which carries the blood from the heart to all parts of the body except the lungs; the main trunk of the arterial system.

of or pertaining to the aorta.

Of or pertaining to the aorta.

Inflammation of the aorta.

a genus of nocturnal South American monkeys with large eyes; the owl monkeys; the douroucoulis. See douroucouli.

An African sheeplike quadruped (the Ammotragus lervia, formerly Ammotragus tragelaphus) having a long mane on the breast and fore legs; the wild sheep of northern Africa; -- called also Barbary sheep. It is, perhaps, the chamois of the Old Testament.

With a quick pace; quick; fast; speedily.

A group of nomadic North American Indians including several tribes native of Arizona, New Mexico, etc.

An indirect argument which proves a thing by showing the impossibility or absurdity of the contrary.

Paid; pleased.

To impair or become impaired; to injure.

See Appalachian.

Same as Appanage.

An aversion to the company of men; a love of solitude.

See Mataco.

A kind of pack saddle used in the American military service and among the Spanish Americans. It is made of leather stuffed with hay, moss, or the like.

Enumeration of parts or particulars.

Separately, in regard to space or company; in a state of separation as to place; aside.

segregation by race; -- a term used in South Africa.

A room in a building; a division in a house, separated from others by partitions.

The quality of standing apart.

That point in the orbit of a double star where the smaller star is farthest from its primary.

Void of feeling; not susceptible of deep emotion; passionless.

In an apathetic manner.

One who is destitute of feeling.

Apathetic; une motional.

Want of feeling; privation of passion, emotion, or excitement; dispassion; -- applied either to the body or the mind. As applied to the mind, it is a calmness, indolence, or state of indifference, incapable of being ruffled or roused to active interest or exertion by pleasure, pain, or passion.

Native phosphate of lime, occurring usually in six-sided prisms, color often pale green, transparent or translucent.

a genus of extinct dinosaurs comprising the brontosaurs; apatosaurs.

a genus of large Old World butterflies.

See Appaum/.

To mimic, as an ape imitates human actions; to imitate or follow servilely or irrationally.

In a vertical line. The anchor in apeak, when the cable has been sufficiently hove in to bring the ship over it, and the ship is them said to be hove apeak.

The state of being an ape.

Destitute of skin.

Of, pertaining to, or designating, the Apennines, a chain of mountains extending through Italy.

Defective digestion, indigestion.

One who apes.

A first view or glance, or the perception or estimation so obtained; an immediate apprehension or insight, appreciative rather than analytic.

The wild Guinea pig of Brazil (Cavia aperea).

Gently opening the bowels; laxative. An aperient medicine or food.

Serving to open; aperient.

Openly.

The act of opening; an opening; an aperture.

Openly; clearly.

Openness; frankness.

The act of opening.

A place where apes are kept.

Having no petals, or flower leaves. [See Illust. under Anther].

The state of being apetalous.

The tip, top, point, or angular summit of anything; as, the apex of a mountain, spire, or cone; the apex, or tip, of a leaf.

Same as Apheresis.

An anomalous state of refraction caused by the absence of the crystalline lens, as after operations for cataract. The remedy is the use of powerful convex lenses.

Pertaining to aphakia; as, aphakial eyes.

A group of wingless insects, of which the flea in the type. See Flea.

Of or pertaining to the Aphaniptera.

A very compact, dark-colored /ock, consisting of hornblende, or pyroxene, and feldspar, but neither of them in perceptible grains.

Resembling aphanite; having a very fine-grained structure.

Pertaining to, or affected by, aphasia; speechless.

one of two subgroups of Nematoda used in some classification systems.

Loss of the power of speech, or of the appropriate use of words, the vocal organs remaining intact, and the intelligence being preserved. It is dependent on injury or disease of the brain.

That point of a planet's or comet's orbit which is most distant from the sun, the opposite point being the perihelion.

Turning away from the sun; -- said of leaves, etc.

The habit of bending from the sunlight; -- said of certain plants.

Loss of the power of speaking, while retaining the power of writing; -- a disorder of cerebral origin.

The dropping of a letter or syllable from the beginning of a word; e. g., cute for acute.

relating to or formed by or consisting of aphaeresis.

The loss of a short unaccented vowel at the beginning of a word; -- the result of a phonetic process; as, squire for esquire.

Shortened by dropping a letter or a syllable from the beginning of a word; as, an aphetic word or form.