| Ant |
n. |
A hymenopterous insect of the Linnaean genus Formica, which is now made a family of several genera; an emmet; a pismire. |
| Ant bird |
|
See Ant bird, under Ant, n. |
| Ant cow |
|
Any aphid from which ants obtain honeydew. |
| Ant egg |
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One of the small white egg-shaped pupae or cocoons of the ant, often seen in or about ant-hills, and popularly supposed to be eggs. |
| Ant thrush |
|
One of several species of tropical birds, of the Old World, of the genus Pitta, somewhat resembling the thrushes, and feeding chiefly on ants. |
| Ant thrush |
|
See Ant bird, under Ant. |
| Ant- |
|
See Anti-, prefix. |
| Ant-bear |
n. |
An edentate animal of tropical America (the Tamanoir), living on ants. It belongs to the genus Myrmecophaga. |
| Ant-cattle |
n. |
Various kinds of plant lice or aphids tended by ants for the sake of the honeydew which they secrete. See Aphips. |
| Ant-eater |
n. |
One of several species of edentates and monotremes that feed upon ants. See Ant-bear, Pangolin, Aard-vark, and Echidna. |
| Ant-hill |
n. |
A mound thrown up by ants or by termites in forming their nests. |
| Ant-lion |
n. |
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 M. formicarius. |
| Anta |
n. |
A species of pier produced by thickening a wall at its termination, treated architecturally as a pilaster, with capital and base. |
| Antacid |
n. |
A remedy for acidity of the stomach, as an alkali or absorbent. |
| Antacid |
a. |
Counteractive of acidity. |
| Antacrid |
a. |
Corrective of acrimony of the humors. |
| Antae |
pl. |
of Anta |
| Antaean |
a. |
Pertaining to Antaeus, a giant athlete slain by Hercules. |
| Antagonism |
n. |
Opposition of action; counteraction or contrariety of things or principles. |
| Antagonist |
n. |
One who contends with another, especially in combat; an adversary; an opponent. |
| Antagonist |
n. |
A muscle which acts in opposition to another; as a flexor, which bends a part, is the antagonist of an extensor, which extends it. |
| Antagonist |
n. |
A medicine which opposes the action of another medicine or of a poison when absorbed into the blood or tissues. |
| Antagonist |
a. |
Antagonistic; opposing; counteracting; as, antagonist schools of philosophy. |
| Antagonistic |
a. |
Alt. of Antagonistical |
| Antagonistical |
a. |
Opposing in combat, combating; contending or acting against; as, antagonistic forces. |
| Antagonize |
v. t. |
To contend with; to oppose actively; to counteract. |
| Antagonize |
v. i. |
To act in opposition. |
| Antagonized |
imp. & p. p. |
of Antagonize |
| Antagonozing |
p. pr. & vb. n. |
of Antagonize |
| Antagony |
n. |
Contest; opposition; antagonism. |
| Antalgic |
a. |
Alleviating pain. |
| Antalgic |
n. |
A medicine to alleviate pain; an anodyne. |
| Antalkali |
n. |
Alt. of Antalkaline |
| Antalkaline |
n. |
Anything that neutralizes, or that counteracts an alkaline tendency in the system. |
| Antalkaline |
a. |
Of power to counteract alkalies. |
| Antambulacral |
a. |
Away from the ambulacral region. |
| Antanaclasis |
n. |
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. |
| Antanaclasis |
n. |
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. |
| Antanagoge |
n. |
A figure which consists in answering the charge of an adversary, by a counter charge. |
| Antaphrodisiac |
a. |
Capable of blunting the venereal appetite. |
| Antaphrodisiac |
n. |
Anything that quells the venereal appetite. |
| Antaphroditic |
a. |
Antaphrodisiac. |
| Antaphroditic |
a. |
Antisyphilitic. |
| Antaphroditic |
n. |
An antaphroditic medicine. |
| Antapoplectic |
a. |
Good against apoplexy. |
| Antapoplectic |
n. |
A medicine used against apoplexy. |
| Antarchism |
n. |
Opposition to government in general. |
| Antarchist |
n. |
One who opposes all government. |
| Antarchistic |
a. |
Alt. of Antarchistical |
| Antarchistical |
a. |
Opposed to all human government. |
| Antarctic |
a. |
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. |
| Antares |
n. |
The principal star in Scorpio:
called also the Scorpion's Heart. |
| Antarthritic |
a. |
Counteracting or alleviating gout. |
| Antarthritic |
n. |
A remedy against gout. |
| Antasthmatic |
a. |
Opposing, or fitted to relieve, asthma. |
| Antasthmatic |
n. |
A remedy for asthma. |
| Ante |
n. |
Each player's stake, which is put into the pool before (ante) the game begins. |
| Ante |
v. t. & i. |
To put up (an ante). |
| Ante mortem |
|
Before death;
generally used adjectivelly; as, an ante-mortem statement; ante-mortem examination. |
| Ante- |
|
A Latin preposition and prefix; akin to Gr. 'anti`, Skr. anti, Goth. and-, anda- (only in comp.), AS. and-, ond-, (only in comp.: cf. Answer, Along), G. ant-, ent- (in comp.). The Latin ante is generally used in the sense of before, in regard to position, order, or time, and the Gr. 'anti` in that of opposite, or in the place of. |
| Anteact |
n. |
A preceding act. |
| Anteal |
a. |
Being before, or in front. |
| Antecedaneous |
a. |
Antecedent; preceding in time. |
| Antecede |
v. t. & i. |
To go before in time or place; to precede; to surpass. |
| Antecedence |
n. |
The act or state of going before in time; precedence. |
| Antecedence |
n. |
An apparent motion of a planet toward the west; retrogradation. |
| Antecedency |
n. |
The state or condition of being antecedent; priority. |
| Antecedent |
a. |
Going before in time; prior; anterior; preceding; as, an event antecedent to the Deluge; an antecedent cause. |
| Antecedent |
a. |
Presumptive; as, an antecedent improbability. |
| Antecedent |
n. |
That which goes before in time; that which precedes. |
| Antecedent |
n. |
One who precedes or goes in front. |
| Antecedent |
n. |
The earlier events of one's life; previous principles, conduct, course, history. |
| Antecedent |
n. |
The noun to which a relative refers; as, in the sentence "Solomon was the prince who built the temple," prince is the antecedent of who. |
| Antecedent |
n. |
The first or conditional part of a hypothetical proposition; as, If the earth is fixed, the sun must move. |
| Antecedent |
n. |
The first of the two propositions which constitute an enthymeme or contracted syllogism; as, Every man is mortal; therefore the king must die. |
| Antecedent |
n. |
The first of the two terms of a ratio; the first or third of the four terms of a proportion. In the ratio a:b, a is the antecedent, and b the consequent. |
| Antecedently |
adv. |
Previously; before in time; at a time preceding; as, antecedently to conversion. |
| Antecessor |
n. |
One who goes before; a predecessor. |
| Antecessor |
n. |
An ancestor; a progenitor. |
| Antechamber |
n. |
A chamber or apartment before the chief apartment and leading into it, in which persons wait for audience; an outer chamber. See Lobby. |
| Antechamber |
n. |
A space viewed as the outer chamber or the entrance to an interior part. |
| Antechapel |
n. |
The outer part of the west end of a collegiate or other chapel. |
| Antechoir |
n. |
A space inclosed or reserved at the entrance to the choir, for the clergy and choristers. |
| Antechoir |
n. |
Where a choir is divided, as in some Spanish churches, that division of it which is the farther from the sanctuary. |
| Antecians |
n. pl. |
See Ant/cians. |
| Antecommunion |
n. |
A name given to that part of the Anglican liturgy for the communion, which precedes the consecration of the elements. |
| Antecursor |
n. |
A forerunner; a precursor. |
| Antedate |
n. |
Prior date; a date antecedent to another which is the actual date. |
| Antedate |
n. |
Anticipation. |
| Antedate |
v. t. |
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. |
| Antedate |
v. t. |
To precede in time. |
| Antedate |
v. t. |
To anticipate; to make before the true time. |
| Antedated |
imp. & p. p. |
of Antedate |
| Antedating |
p. pr. & vb. n. |
of Antedate |
| Antediluvial |
a. |
Before the flood, or Deluge, in Noah's time. |
| Antediluvian |
a. |
Of or relating to the period before the Deluge in Noah's time; hence, antiquated; as, an antediluvian vehicle. |
| Antediluvian |
n. |
One who lived before the Deluge. |
| Antefact |
n. |
Something done before another act. |
| Antefix |
n. |
An ornament fixed upon a frieze. |
| Antefix |
n. |
An ornament at the eaves, concealing the ends of the joint tiles of the roof. |
