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A-NOINTMENT, n. The act of anointing, or state of being || ANSWER-A-BLE, a. 1. That may be answered; to

anointed. A-NŌ'LE, n. A species of lizard in the West Indies.

A-NOM-A-LISTICAL,

A-NOM A-LI-PED, a. [Gr. avopaλia.] An epithet given to
fowls, whose middle toe is united to the exterior by three
phalanges, and to the interior by one only.
A-NOM A-LI-PED, n. An anomalous-footed fowl.
A-NOM A-LISM, n. An anomaly; a deviation from rule.
A-NOM-A-LISTIC, a. Irregular; departing from
common or established rules.
A-NOM A-LOUS, a. Irregular; deviating from a general
rule, method or analogy.
A-NOM A-LOUS-LY, adv. Irregularly; in a manner differ-
ent from common rule, method or analogy.
A-NOM'A-LY, n. [Fr. anomalie.] 1. Irregularity; devia-
tion from the common rule.-2. In astronomy, an irregu-
larity in the motion of a planet.-3. In music, a false
scale or interval.

A-NO/ME-ANS, n. [Gr. avopolos.] In church history, the
pure Arians, as distinguished from the Semi-Arians.
A-NO MI-A, n. [Gr. avopia.] A genus of bivalve shells, so
called from their unequal valves; the beaked cockle.
ANO-MITE, n. A fossil shell of the genus anomia.
AN-O-MO-RHOM BOID, n. [Gr. avopolos.] A genus of
spars, pellucid, and crystaline, of no determinate form
externally.

AN'O-MY, n. [Gr. avopia.] A violation of law. Bramhall.
[Rarely used.]

A-NON', adv. [Sax. on an.] 1. Quickly; without intermission; soon; immediately. 2. Sometimes; now and then; at other times.

A-NON Y-MOUS, a. [Fr. anonyme; L. anonymus.] Nameless; wanting a name; without the real name of the au

thor.

A-NON Y-MOUS-LY, adv. Without a name.
AN O-PLO-THER, n. [Gr. av, onλov and Onpiov.] ||
AN-O-PLO-THE RI-UM, A name which Cuvier has
given to a genus of animals.
A-NOPISY, n. [Gr. av and wy.] Want of sight; invision.
[Little used.]

ANO-REX-Y, n. [Gr. a and opesis.] Want of appetite,
without a lothing of food. Core.

AN-OTHER, a. [an, or one, and other.] 1. Not the same;
different. 2. One more, in addition to a former number,
indefinitely. 3. Any other; any
indefi-
different person,
nitely. This word is often used without a noun, becom-
ing a substitute for the name of the person or thing.
AN-OTHER-GAINES, adv. Of another kind.
AN-OTHER-GATES, adv. Of another sort.
AN-OTHER-GUESS, a. Of a different kind.
AN-OTHER-GUISE, a. Of a different kind; different.
[This is a vulgar word, and usually contracted into other-
guess.

A-NOT TA, n. An elegant red color, formed from the pelli-
cles or pulp of the seeds of the biza.

A-NOUGH, A-NOW!. See ENOUGH, ENOW.

ANSA-TED, a. [L. ansatus.] Having a handle or handles, or something in the form of handles.

ANSER, n. [L.] 1. In zoology, the name of the goose, whether tame or wild.-2. In astronomy, a small star, in the milky way.

AN SER-INE, á. [L. anserinus.] 1. Resembling the skin of a goose; uneven. 2. Pertaining to the ansers. AN'SERS, n. In Linne's system, the third order of aves or fowls.

AN SLAIGHT, (an'släte) n. An attack; an affray. ANSWER, (an'ser) v. t. [Sax. andswarian.] 1. To speak in return to a call or question, or to a speech, declaration or argument of another person. 2. To be equivalent to; to be adequate to, or sufficient to accomplish the object. 3. To comply with, fulfill, pay or satisfy. 4. To act in return, or opposition. 5. To bear a due proportion to; to be equal or adequate; to suit. 6. To perform what was intended; to accomplish. 7. To be opposite to; to face. 8. To write in reply; to reply to another writing, by way of explanation, refutation or justification. 9 To solve. ANSWER, v. i. 1. To reply; to speak by way of return. 2. To be accountable, liable or responsible. 3. To vindicate, or give a justificatory account of. 4. To correspond with; to suit with. 5. To act reciprocally. 6. To stand as opposite or correlative. 7. To return, as sound reverberated; to echo. 8. To succeed; to effect the object intended; to have a good effect.

ANSWER, n. 1. A reply; that which is said, in return to

call, a question, an argument, or an allegation. 2. An account to be rendered to justice.-3. In law, a counterstatement of facts, in a course of pleadings; a confutation of what the other party has alledged. 4. A writing, pamphlet or book, in reply to another. 5. A reverberated sound; an echo. 6. A return; that which is sent in consequence of some petition. 7. A solution, the result of a mathematical operation.

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which a reply may be made. 2. Obliged to give an account, or liable to be called to account; amenable; responsible. 3. Obliged or liable to pay, indemnify or make good. 4. Correspondent; agreeing with; in con5. Suitable; suited; proportionate. formity with. Equal; correspondent; proportionate. ANSWER-A-BLE-NESS, 'n. The quality of being answerable, liable, responsible, or correspondent. ANSWER-A-BLY, adv. In due proportion, correspondence or conformity; suitably.

ANSWERED, pp. Replied to; fulfilled; paid; complied with; accomplished; solved; confuted."

ANSWER-ER, n. One who answers; he or that which makes a return to what another has spoken; he who writes an answer.

ANSWER-ING, ppr. Replying; corresponding to; fulfill
ing; solving; succeeding; reverberating; confuting.
ANSWER-JOB BER, n. One who makes a business of
writing answers. Swift.

AN'T, in old authors, is a contraction of an it, that is, if it
See AN.

ANT, n. [Sax. amet.] An emmet; a pismire.
ANT-BEAR,

ANT-EATER, n. A quadruped that feeds upon ants.
ANT-EGGS, n. Little white balls found in the hillocks of
ants, usually supposed to be their eggs, but found, on ex-
amination, to be the young brood, in their first state.
ANT-HILL, n. A little tumulus or hillock, formed by ants,
for their habitation.

ANTA, n. In ancient architecture, a square column, at the
corner of a building; a pilaster; written also ante.
ANT-ACID, n. In pharmacy, an alkali, or a remedy for
sourness or acidity; better written anti-acid.
ANT-A€'RID, n. That which corrects acrimony; better
written anti-acrid.

AN-TAG/O-NISM, n. Opposition of action; counteraction
of things or principles. Good.
AN-TAG/O-NIST, n. [Gr. avri and aywriorns.] 1. One
who contends with another in combat; used primarily in
relation to the Grecian games. An adversary. 2. An op-
ponent in controversy. Campbell.-3. In anatomy, a mus-
cle which acts in opposition to another.
AN-TAG/O-NIST, a. Counteracting; opposing.
AN-TAG-O-NIS TIE, a. Opposing in combat; contending
against.

AN-TAG O-NIZE, v. i. To contend against; to act in op-
position; to oppose in argument.

†AN-TAG O-NÝ, n. Contest; opposition. Milton.
AN-TALGIC, a. [Gr. avri and aλyos.] Alleviating pain,
anodyne: [Little used.]

ANT-A-NA-CLA SIS, n. [Gr. avravakλaois.] 1. In rheto-
ric, a figure, which consists in repeating the same word
in a different sense; as, whilst we live, let us live. 2. It
is also a repetition of words, beginning a sentence, after a
long parenthesis.

ANT-A-NA-GO'GE, n. [Gr. avri and avaywyn.] In rhetoric, a figure, which consists in replying to an adversary, by way of recrimination.

ANT-A-PHRO-DIS/I-A€, a. [Gr. avri and appodioros.] Antivenereal; having the quality of extinguishing or les sening venereal desire.

ANT-A-PHRO-DIS/1-A€, n. A medicine that lessens or
extinguishes the venereal appetite.

ANT-A-PHRO-DITIE, a. Antivenereal, abating the vene-
real appetite, or efficacious against the venereal disease.
ANT-A-PHRO-DITIE, n. A medicine which abates the
venereal appetite, or is good against the venereal disease.
ANT-A-PO-PLE€ TIE, a. Good against apoplexy.
ANT-XRE/TIE, a. [Gr. avri and apkтos.] Opposite to the
northern, or arctic pole; relating to the southern pole, or
to the region near it

AN-TARES, n. The name of a star of the first magni-
tude.

ANT-AR-THRITIЄ, a. [Gr. avri and apopiris.] Counteracting the gout.

ANT-AR-THRITIЄ, n. A remedy which cures or allevi ates the gout.

ANT-ASTH-MATIC, a. [Gr. avri and aroua.] Opposing
the asthma.

ANT-ASTH-MATI¤, n. A remedy for the asthma.
ANTE. A Latin preposition, the Greek avrt, much used
in the composition of English words, especially in words
from the Latin and Greek languages. It signifies before
in place, in front; hence, opposite, contrary; and, figura-
tively, before in time. The Latin ante is generally used
in the sense of before, and the Greek avr in that of oppo-
site, or in the place of.

ANTE, or AN TA, n. A pilaster.-In heraldry, ante de-
notes that the pieces are let into one another, in the man-
ner there expressed.

AN'TE-ACT, n. [L. ante, and act.] A preceding act.

AN TE-CE-DÃ NE-OUS, a. Antecedent; preceding in

the Oven, AN-TECEDE, e. t. To go before in time; to precede. Hale. AN-TECEDENCE, n. The act or state of going before in time, precedence.

AN TE CÊ DENT, 4. Going before in time; prior; anterior, preceding.

AN-TECE DENT, x. That which goes before in time; bence, in writings, that which precedes in place.-In grammar, the noun to which a relative or other substitute refers.—În legic, the first of two propositions in an enthymeme-In mathematics, the first of two terms of a ratio. AN TECĒ DENT-LY, ade. Previously; at a time preceding.

ANTECESSOR, ». [L.] 1. One who goes before; a leader; a principal. 2. One that possessed land before the present possessor.

AN TECHAM BER, n. A chamber or apartment before the cher apartment to which it leads, and in which persons wat for audience.

ANTE-CHAP-EL, n. The part of the chapel through which is the passage to the choir or body of it. AN TE CIAN, 8. {L. antaci.] In geography, the antecians are those inhabitants of the earth, under the same meridlan, and at the same distance from the equator, but on expos te sides, one party north, the other south. AN-TECURSOR, x. [L. ante and cursor.] One who runs before; a forerunner.

ANTE DATE, a. Prior date; a date antecedent to another. Gd.

ANTE-DATE, . . [L. ante and datum.] 1. To date befire the true ume. 2. To anticipate; to take before the

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AN TE LOPE, n. In zoology, the gazel; a genus of rumisant quadrupeds, intermediate between the deer and goat. AN TE LO CAN, a. {L. antelacanus.] Being before light. AN TE ME RIDIAN, a. [L. ante, and meridian.] Being befre auon; pertaining to the forenoon.

AN-TE-METIC, a. (Gr. avṛt, and emetic.] Restraining or allaying vomiting.

AN TE MET I, ». A medicine which checks vomiting. AN TE MUND ÁNE, «. [L. ante and mundus.] Being be

fore the creation of the world.

AN-TE NICENE, a. [L. ante, and Micene.] Anterior to the first council of Nice.

ANTENNE, n. pix. [L.] In zoology, the horns or feelers of sects, projecting from the head.

AN TE-NUM BÉR, n. A number that precedes another. AN TE NUPTIAL, 4. Being before marriage.

AN TE PASCH AL, 4. Pertaining to the time before Eas

ANTE-PAST, «. (L. ante and pastum.] A foretaste; something taken before the proper time.

AN TE PE NULT, 8. ante, pene, and ultimus.] The but syllable of a word except two.

AN-TE-PE-NULT I-MATE, «. Pertaining to the last syl

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AN TE PRE-DIE A-MENT, n. A preliminary question in gina question which is to be first known. AN-TERIOR, «. [L..] 1. Before in time or place; prior; antecedent, preceding in tune. 2. Before or in front in

AŃ TE-RL-OR I-TY, n. The state of being anterior, preeeding, or in front.

ANTE ROOM, %. A room before, or in front of another. ANTES, n. plu. [L.] Pillars of large dimensions that support the front of a building.

A TESTATURE, . In fortification, a small intrenchtent, or work formed of palisades. TAN TESTOM ACH, . À cavity which leads into the sch, as the crop in birds. Ray.

PANTE TEM PLE, . What we now call the nave in a

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AN-THES-TE RI-ON, n. The sixth month of the Athenian year.

AN-THO-LOGI-CAL, a. Pertaining to anthology.

AN-THOL O-GY, n. [Gr. avoos and Xoyos.] 1. A discourse on flowers. 2. A collection of beautiful passages from authors; a collection of poems or epigrams.

ANTHO-NY'S FIRE. A popular name of the erysipelas AN-THOPHYL-LITE, n. [Gr. av@es and quèλov.] A min

eral.

ANTHO-RISM, n. [Gr. avri and opiouos.] In rhetoric, a description, or definition, contrary to that which is given by the adverse party.

AN THRA-CITE, n. [Gr. av@pa.] Slaty glance-coal, or columnar glance-coal; that species of coal which has a shining lustre, approaching to metallic, and which burns without smoke, and with intense heat.

AN THRA-CO-LITE. See ANTHRACITE. ANTHRAX, ". A carbuncle; a malignant ulcer, with intense burning.

AN-THROPO-GLOT, n. [Gr. avowros and yλwrra.] An animal which has a tongue resembling that of man, of which kind are parrots.

AN-THRO-POGʻRA-PHY, n. [Gr. avoρwños and уpa‡n.] A description of man, or the human race, or of the parts of the human body.

AN-THROPO-LITE, n. [Gr. av@pwwos and λcôos.] A petri. faction of the human body, or skeleton.

AN-THROP-O-LOGI-CAL, a. Pertaining to anthropology. according to human manner of speaking. AN-THRO-POLO-GIST, я. One who describes, or is versed in the physical history of the human body. AN-THRO-POL/O-GY, n. [Gr. avowros and λoyos.] 1. A discourse upon human nature. 2. The doctrine of the structure of the human body; the natural history or physi ology of the human species. 3. The word denotes that manner of expression by which the inspired writers attribute human parts and passions to God.

AN-THRO-POM AN-CY, n. [Gr. avopros and parreia.] Divination by inspecting the entrails of a human being. AN-THRO-PO-MORPHISM, n. The heresy of the anthro

pomorphites.

AN-THRO PO-MORPHÄITE, n. [Gr. av0owros and popon.] One who believes a human form in the Supreme Being A sect of ancient heretics are called anthropomorphites. AN-THRO PO-MORPH'OUS, a. Belonging to that which has the form of man; having the figure of resemblance to a man AN-THRO-POP A-THY, n. [Gr. avoрwros and λatos.] The affections of man, or the application of human passions to the Supreme Being.

ANTHRO POPH'A-ĜI, n. plu. [Gr. avôpwmos and dayw.]
Man-eaters; cannibals; men that eat human flesh.
AN-THRO PÓPH'A-GOUS, a. Feeding on human flesh
AN THRO-POPH A-GY, R. The eating of human flesh, or
the practice of eating it.

AN-THRO-POSCOPY, n. [Gr. avoperos and oкOTEW.]
The art of discovering or judging of a man's character,
passions, and inclinations, from the lineaments of his body.
AN-THRO-POSIO-PHY, ". [Gr. άνθρωπος and σοφία.]
Knowledge of the nature of man; acquaintance with

man's structure and functions.

HYPNOTIC.

AN-THYP-NOT I€, a. [corrupt orthography.] See ANTI-
AN-THY-PO-€HOND'RI-A€. See ANTIHYPOCHONDRIAC
AN-THY-POPHO-RA. See ANTIHYPOPHORA.
AN-THYSTERIC. See ANTIHYSTERIC.

ANTI [Gr. See ANTE.] A preposition, signifying against, opposite, contrary, or in place of; used in many English words.

AN-TI-ACID, a. Opposing or removing acidity. Often written antacid.

AN-TI-ACID, n. An alkali; a medicine proper to correct sourness, or acidity; an absorbent, or an obtundent, or an immutant.

AN-TI-A-MERI-CAN, a. Opposed to America, or to the United States; opposed to the revolution in America. Marshall.

ANTI-A-POSTLE, n. [Gr. avri, and apostle.] An adversary to the apostles.

AN-TI-AR-MINI-AN, n. He who opposes the Arminians, or Arminianism. Bp. Barlow.

AN-TI-AR-THRIT IE, a. Good against the gout.
AN-TI-AR-THRIT I¤, n. A remedy for the gout.

AN-TI-ASTH-MAT'I¤, a. Good against asthma. AN-TI-ASTH-MATIC, n. A remedy for the asthma. AN-TI-BAC1CHI-US, n. [Gr. avri and Baxxeios.] In poetry, a foot of three syllables, the first two long, and the last short, as ambīrē.

AN-TI-BA-SILI-CAN, a. [Gr. avri and Bariλikn.] Opposed to royal state and magnificence. ANTIC, a. [Fr. antique.] Odd; fanciful.

ANTIC, n. 1. A buffoon, or merry Andrew; one that practices odd gesticulations. 2. Odd appearance; fanciful figures.-3. In architecture, sculpture, and painting, such pieces as were made by the ancients; usually written antique.

ANTIE, v. t. To make antic. Shak.

AN-TI-CA-CHEC TI¤, a. [Gr. avri and kaxekτns.] Curing, or tending to cure, an ill habit of the constitution. AN-TI-CA-CHECTI¤, n. A medicine that tends to correct an ill habit of body.

AN-TI-CA-TAR/RHAL, a. [Gr. avrɩ and karappoos.] Good against catarrh.

AN-TI-CA-TAR RHAL, n. A remedy for catarrh.

AN-TI-CAU-SOTIE, a. [Gr. avri and Kavσos.] Good against a burning fever.

AN-TI-CAU-SOTIE, n. A remedy for a burning fever. ANTI-CHAM-BER, n. Dr. Johnson prefers ante-chamber, which see.

ANTI-CHRIST, n. [Gr. avri, and Christ.] A great adversary of Christ; the man of sin.

AN-TI-CHRISTIAN, a. Pertaining to Anti-christ; opposite to, or opposing the Christian religion.

AN-TI-CHRISTIAN, n. A follower of Anti-christ; one opposed to the Christian religion.

AN-TI-CHRISTIAN-ISM, n. Opposition or contrariety to the Christian religion.

AN-TI-CHRIS-TIÄNI-TY, n. Opposition or contrariety to Christianity.

AN-TICH RO-NISM, n. [Gr. avri and xpovos.] Deviation from the true order of time.

AN-TICI-PATE, v. t. [L. anticipo.] 1. To take, or act, before another, so as to prevent him; to take first possession. 2. To take before the proper time. 3. To foretaste or foresee; to have a previous view or impression of something future.

AN-TICI-PA-TED, pp. Taken before; foretasted; foreseen; precluded; prevented. TAN-TICI-PATE-LY, adv. By anticipation. AN-TICI-PA-TING, ppr. Taking before; foretasting; precluding; preventing. AN-TIC-I-PATION, n. 1. The act of taking up, placing, or considering something before the proper time, in natural order; prevention. 2. Foretaste; previous view or impression of what is to happen afterward. 3. Previous notion; preconceived opinion, produced in the mind, before the truth is known; slight previous impression. 4. The attack of a fever before the usual time. AN-TICI-PA-TOR, n. One who anticipates. AN-TICI-PA-TO-RY, a. Taking before the time. AN-TI-CLIMAX, n. [Gr. avri and kλipaž.] A sentence in which the ideas fall or become less important and striking at the close; opposed to climax.

AN TIE-LY, adv. In an antic manner; with odd postures and gesticulations; with fanciful appearance. ANTIC-MASK, or ANTI-MASK, n. A mask of antics. AN-TI-CON-STI-TO TION-AL, a. Opposed to or against the constitution. Bolingbroke.

AN-TI-CON-STI-TUTION-AL-IST, n. One opposed to

the constitution.

AN-TI-CON-TA ĠION-IST, n. One who opposes the doctrine of contagion.

AN-TI-CON-TA GIOUS, a. Opposing or destroying contagion.

AN-TI-CON-VUL/SIVE, a. Good against convulsions. ANTI-COR, n. Among farriers, an inflammation in a horse's throat.

AN-TI-COS-METIC, a. Destructive or injurious to beauty.
AN-TI-COS-METIC, n. Any preparation which injures
beauty.
ANTI-COURT, a. In opposition to the court.
AN-TI-COURTIER, n. One who opposes the court, or the
- measures of administration.

AN-TI-CRE-ATOR, n. One that opposes the creator.
AN-TI-DEM-O-ERATIE, a. Opposing democracy.
AN-TI-DEM-O-CRATICAL,
Mitford.

ANTI-DO-TAL, a. That has the quality of preventing the
ill effects of poison, or of any thing noxious.
AN-TI-DOTA-RY, a. Serving for a counter poison.
ANTI-DOTE, n. [Gr. avridoros.] 1. A medicine to coun-
teract the effects of poison, or of any thing noxious taken
into the stomach. 2. Whatever tends to prevent mis-
chievous effects, or to counteract the evil which some-
thing else might produce.

AN-TI-DO TI-CAL, a. Serving as an antidote.
AN-TI-DO TI-CALLY, ade. By way of antidote.

AN-TI-DYS-EN-TER'I€, a. Good against the dysentery, of bloody flux.

AN-TI-DYS-EN-TER'I€, n. A remedy for dysentery.
AN-TI-E-MET1€, a [Gr. avri and eperikos.| Having the
quality of allaying vomiting.

AN-TI-E-METIC, . A remedy to check vomiting.
AN-TI-EN-NE-A-HEDRAL, a. [Gr. avri, evvea, and copa.]
In crystalography, having nine faces on two opposite parts
of the crystal.
ANTIENT. See ANCIENT.

AN-TI-EN-THU-SI-AS/TIE, a. Opposing enthusiasm. ANTIENT-RY, n. [more correctly, ancientry.] Cast of antiquity; that which is ancient.

AN-TI-E-PÍSЄ'O-PAL, a. Adverse to episcopacy. AN-TI-E-VAN-GEL/I-CAL, a. Contrary to orthodoxy, or the genuine sense of the gospel.

ANTI-FACE, n. Opposite face. Jonson.

AN-TI-FA-NÁTIЄ, n. An opposer of fanaticism.

* AN-TI-FĒ/BRILE, a. That has the quality of abating fever. *AN-TI-FE BRILE, n. A medicine that cures, abates, or tends to allay fever.

AN-TI-FLAT TER-ING, a. Opposite to flattering. Delany. AN-TI-GUGʻLER, n. A crooked tube of metal.

AN-TI-HEE TI€, a. [Gr. avrɩ and ExTIKOS.] That has the quality of opposing or curing hectical disorders. AN-TI-HE€ TI¤, n. A medicine that is good in the cure of hectic disorders.

AN-TI-HYP-NOT'IE, a. [Gr. avri and urvos.] Counteract ing sleep; tending to prevent sleep or lethargy. AN-TI-HYP-NOTIЄ, n. A medicine that prevents or tends to prevent sleep. Coze.

AN-TI-HYP-O-ЄHOND1RI-A€, a. [Gr. avri and vroxovopiakos.] That counteracts, or tends to cure, hypochondriAN-TI-HYP-O-CHONDRI-A¤, n. A remedy for hypochondriac affections and low spirits.

ac affections.

AN-TI-HY-POPH'O-RA, n. [Gr. avri and uropopa.] In

rhetoric, a figure, which consists in refuting an objection by the opposition of a contrary sentence. AN-TI-HYS-TERI¤, a. [Gr. avri and vorepa.] Counteracting hysterics.

AN-TI-HYS-TER1€, n. A medicine that cures or counteracts hysterical affections.

AN-TI-LOGIA-RITHM, n. The complement of the logarithm of any sine, tangent, or secant, to 90 degrees. AN-TILO-GY, n. [Gr. avri and Xoyos.] A contradiction between any words or passages in an author. AN-TILO-QUIST, n. A contradictor. Dict.

AN-TILOQUY, .. An old word, denoting preface, proem, or peroration.

AN-TI-MA-GIS TRI-CAL, a. Opposed to the office of magistrates South. AN-TI-MA'NI-A€,

a. Counteracting or curing madAN-TI-MA-NIA-ÉAL, } ness or frenzy. ANTI-MASK, n. A lesser mask. Bacon. AN-TI-ME-TABO-LE, (an-te-me-tab'o-ly) n. [Gr. avri and peraßon.] In rhetoric, a setting of two things in opposition to each other.

AN-TI-ME-TATHESIS, n. [Gr. avri and μerabecis.] In rhetoric, an inversion of the parts or members of an antithesis.

AN-TIME-TER, n. [Gr. avri and μeтpov.] An optical instrument for measuring angles.

AN-TI-MET RI-CAL, a. Contrary to the rules of metre or

verse.

AN-TI-MIN-IS-TE RI-AL, a. Opposed to the ministry, or administration of government.

AN-TI-MIN-IS-TĒ'RI-AL-IST, n. One that opposes the

ministry.

AN-TI-MO-NARCH/I-CAL, a. Opposed to monarchy; tha opposes a kingly government.

AN-TI-MO-NARCH I-CAL-NESS, n. The quality of bein opposed to monarchy.

AN-TI-MON'AR-CHIST, n. An enemy to nonarchy. AN-TI-MŌ NI-AL, a. Pertaining to antimony; relating t antimony, or partaking of its qualities.

AN-TI-MO NI-AL, n. A preparation of antimony; a med cine in which antimony is a principal ingredient. AN-TI-MONI-ATE, n. A compound or salt composed antimonic acid and a base.

AN-TI-MO'NI-A-TED, a. Partaking of antimony; mixe or prepared with antimony.

AN-TI-MONIC, a. Pertaining to antimony.
AN-TI-MONI-OUS, a. Pertaining to antimony.
ANTI-MO-NITE, n. A compound of antimonious acid ar
a base.

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AN-TI-MOR‘AL-IST, «. An opposer of morality.

AN TI-MO SI-CAL, 4. Opposed to music; having no ear for me. Amer. Review.

ANTI-NE-PHRITIC, a. Counteracting diseases of the

kidneys.

AN TINE PHRIT (€, m. A medicine that tends to remove diseases of the kidneys.

AN-TI-NO-MI-AN, &. [Gr. avri, and voμos.] Against law; pertaining to the Antinomians.

ANTI-NO MI-AN, n. One of a sect who maintain, that, under the gospel dispensation, the law is of no use or obligation; or who hold doctrines which supersede the necemity of good works and a virtuous life.

AN TI-NO MI-AN-ISM, n. The tenets of Antinomians. •AN TI-NO-MIST, n. One who pays no regard to the law, or to good works.

AN TI NO MY, . A contradiction between two laws, or between two parts of the same law.

AN TI & CHI-AN, a. Pertaining to Antiochus, the founder of a sect of philosophers.

AN TI PA PAL, 4. Opposing popery.

AN TI-PA-PIS TIE, a. Opposed to popery or papacy. AN-TI-PA-PISTI-CAL,

Jortin.

AN TI PAK AL-LEL, 6. Running in a contrary direction. Hammond.

AN TI-PAR-A-LYT IC, 4. ANTI-PARA LYTIC, . AN TI PA-THETIC, ANTI PA-THETICAL,

1 a thing.

Good against the palsy.
A remedy for the palsy.
a. Having a natural contrarie-
ty, or constitutional aversion

AN TI PA-THETI-CAL-NESS, n. The quality or state of
having an aversion or contrariety to a thing.
AN TIFA-THOUS, «. Adverse. Beaumont."
AN-TIP A-THY, «. (Gr. avrɩ and watos.] 1. Natural aver-

; instinctive contrariety or opposition in feeling; an Ever felt at the presence, real or ideal, of a particular obect-2. In ethics, antipathy is hatred, aversion or repagnancy; hatred to persons; aversion to persons or things, repugnancy to actions.-3. In physics, a contranety in the properties or affections of matter, as of oil and

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AN TIPHONY, . [Gr. avri and dwvn.] 1. The answer
of see choir to another, when an anthem or psalm is sung
by two choirs; alternate singing. 2. A species of psalmo-
dy, when a congregation is divided into two parts, and
each wings the verses alternately. 3. The words given out
at the begining of a psalm, to which both the choirs are
to accommodate their singing. 4. A musical composition
of severa' verses, extracted from different psalms.
AN-TIPH RA-SIS, ». [Gr. avri and goaris.] The use of
words in a sense opposite to their proper meaning.
AN TI PHRASTIC, a. Pertaining to antiphrasis.
ANTI PHRASTI-CAL,} Ash.

AN TI PHRASTI-€AL-LY, adv. In the manner of an an-
ANTIPO DAL, «. Pertaining to the antipodes; having the
Set directly opposite.
ANTI-PODE, plu. ANTIPODEs, n. [Gr. arri, and rous,

One who lives on the opposite side of the globe, and, of course, whose feet are directly opposite to ours. ANTI POISON, (an-te-poy zn) n. An antidote for poi

ANTI POPE, #. One who usurps the papal power, in oppostwam to the pope.

ANTI-PORT, . An outward gate or door.

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*AN-TIPTO-SIS, n. [Gr. avre and #rwois.] In grammar, the putting of one case for another.

AN-TI-PO RI-TAN, a. An opposer of Puritans. AN-TI-QUA RI-AN, a. Pertaining to antiquaries, or to antiquity. As a noun, this is used for antiquary. AN-TI-QUARI-AN-ISM, n. Love of antiquities. ANTI-QUA-RY, n. [L. antiquarius.] One who studies into the history of ancient things, as statutes, coins, medals, paintings, inscriptions, books and manuscripts, or searches for them, and explains their origin and purport; one versed in antiquity.

ANTIQUATE, v. t. [L. antiquo.] To make old, or obsolete; to make old in such a degree as to put out of use. Hence, when applied to laws or customs, it amounts to make void, or abrogate.

ANTI-QUA-TED, pp. Grown old; obsolete; out of use; having lost its binding force by non-observance. ANTI-QUA-TED-NESS, n. The state of being old, or ob

solete.

ANTI-QUATE-NESS, n. The state of being obsolete. AN-TI-QUATION, n. The state of being antiquated. AN-TIQUE', (an-teek') a. [Fr.] 1. Old; ancient; of genuine antiquity. 2. Old, as it respects the present age, or a modern period of time; of old fashion. 3. Odd; wild; fanciful; more generally written antic.

AN-TIQUE', (an-teek) n. In general, any thing very old; but, in a more limited sense, the remains of ancient artists, as busts, statues, paintings and vases, the works of Gre cian and Roman antiquity.

AN-TIQUE NESS, (an-teek'nes) n. The quality of being ancient; an appearance of ancient origin and workmanship.

AN-TIQ UI-TY, n. [L. antiquitas.] 1. Ancient times; former ages; times long since past. 2. The ancients; the people of ancient times; as, the fact is admitted by all antiquity. 3. Ancientness; great age; the quality of being ancient. 4. Old age. Shak. 5. The remains of ancient times. In this sense it is usually or always plural. AN-TI-REV-O-LUTION-A-RY, a. Opposed to a revolution; opposed to an entire change in the form of government. Burke.

AN-TI-REV-O-LOTION-IST, ». One who is opposed to a revolution in government.

AN-TI-SAB-BA-TARI-AN, n. One of a sect who oppose the observance of the Christian Sabbath. AN-TI-SA BI-AN, a. Opposed or contrary to Sabianism, or the worship of the celestial orbs.

AN-TI-SA-CER-DŌ TAL, a. Adverse to priests. AN-TIS CIAN, n. [L. antiscü.] In geography, the inhab AN-TIS CIANS, itants of the earth, living on different sides of the equator, whose shadows at noon are cast in contrary directions.

AN-TI-SCOR-BU TIE, or AN-TI-SEOR-BUʻTI-CAL, a Counteracting the scurvy.

AN-TI-SCOR-BO TIE, n. A remedy for the scurvy. AN-TI-SCRIP TU-RISM, n. Opposition to the Holy Scriptures. Boyle.

AN-TI-SCRIPTU-RIST, n. One that denies revelation

Boyle.

ANTI SCRIPT, n. Opposition in writing to some other writing.

AN-TI-SEPTIC, a. [Gr. avri and enros.] Opposing or counteracting putrefaction.

AN-TI-SEPTIC, n. A medicine which resists or corrects putrefaction.

AN-TI-SOCIAL, a. Averse to society; that tends to interrupt or destroy social intercourse.

AN-TIS PA-SIS, n. [Gr. avri and exaw.] A revulsion of fluids from one part of the body to another. AN-TI-SPAS-MODI¤, a. [Gr. avri and oraopos.] Opposing spasm; resisting convulsions; as anodynes. AN-TI-SPAS-MODI¤, n. A remedy for spasm or convul

sions.

AN-TI-SPAS TIC, a. Causing a revulsion of fluids or humors. Johnson.

AN-TI-SPLEN-E-TI€, a.Good as a remedy in diseases of the spleen. Johnson.

AN-TIS TA-SIS, n. [Gr. avri and Gracis.] In oratory, the defense of an action from the consideration that, if it had been omitted, something worse would have happened. AN-TIS/TES, n. [L.] The chief priest or prelate. AN-TIS TRO-PHE, ) n. [Gr. avri and orpoon.] 1. In gramAN-TIS TRO-PHY, mar, the changing of things mutually depending on each other; reciprocal conversion. 2. Among the ancients, that part of a song or dance, before the altar, which was performed by turning from west to east, in opposition to the strophe.

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ANTI-TYPE, n. [Gr. avriτunov.] A figure corresponding to another figure; that of which the type is the pattern or representation. Thus the paschal lamb, in Scripture, is the type, of which Christ is the antitype. AN-TI-TYPI-CAL, a. Pertaining to an antitype; explaining the type. Johnson.

AN-TI-VA RI-O-LOUS, a. Opposing the small pox. Med. Rep.

AN-TI-VE-NERE-AL, a. Resisting venereal poison. ANT LER, n. A start or branch of a horn, especially of the horns of the cervine animals, as of the stag or moose. ANT LERED, a. Furnished with antlers. AN-TOE/CI, n. [Gr. avri and otkεw.] Those inhabitants of the earth, who live under the same meridian, and at the same distance from the equator; the one toward the north, and the other toward the south.

AN-TŌ'NI-AN, 4. Noting certain medicinal waters in Germany, at or near Tonstein.

AN-TO-NO-MA SIA, ) n. [Gr. avri and ovopa.] The use AN-TO-NOM A-SY,' of the name of some office, dignity, profession, science or trade, instead of the true name of the person; as when his majesty is used for a king.

ANT-O-SI-AN DRI-AN, n. One of a sect of rigid Lutherans, so denominated from their opposing the doctrines of Osiander.

tAN TRE, n. [L. antrum.] A cavern. Shak.

AN VIL, n. [Sax. anfilt, enfilt.] An iron block with a smooth face, on which smiths hammer and shape their work. Figuratively, any thing on which blows are laid. Shak. To be on the anvil, is to be in a state of discussion, formation or preparation.

ANX-IE-TUDE, n. Anxiety; solicitude. [Little used.] ANX-IE-TY, (ang-zie-ty) n. [L. anxietas.] 1. Concern or solicitude respecting some event, future, or uncertain, which disturbs the mind, and keeps it in a state of painful uneasiness.-2. In medical language, uneasiness; unceasing restlessness in sickness.

ANY/IOUS, (ank shus) a. 1. Greatly concerned or solicitous respecting something future or unknown; being in painful suspense. 2. Full of solicitude; unquiet. 3. Very careful; solicitous.

ANXIOUS-LY, adv. In an anxious manner; solicitously; carefully; unquietly.

ANXIOUS NESS, (ank'shus-nes) n. The quality of being anxious; great solicitude. Johnson.

ANY, (en ny) a. [Sax. anig, enig; D. eenig ; Ger. einig.] 1. One, indefinitely. 2. Some; an indefinite number, plurally. 3. Some; an indefinite quantity; a small portion. 4. It is often used as a substitute, the person or thing being understood. It is used in opposition to none ANY-WHITH-ER, adv. Any where. Barrow. ANY-WISE (en'ny-wize) is sometimes used adverbially, but the two words may be separated, and used with a preposition, in any wise.

A-O'NI-AN, a. Pertaining to the muses, or to Aonia, in Bootia.

AO-RIST, n. [Gr. aopicros.] The name of certain tenses in the grammar of the Greek language, which express time indeterminate.

A-O-RISTIE, a. Indefinite; pertaining to an aorist, or indefinite tense.

A-ORTA, n. [Gr. 12p77.] The great artery, or trunk of the arterial system, proceeding from the left ventricle of the heart, and giving origin to all the arteries, except the pulmonary arteries.

A-ORTAL, a. Pertaining to the aorta, or great artery.
A-OUTA, n. The paper-mulberry tree in Otaheite.
A-PACE', adv. With a quick pace; quick; fast; speedily;
with haste; hastily.

APA-GO-GE, or AP'A-GO-GY, n. [Gr. from arayw.] In
logic, abduction; a kind of argument, wherein the greater
extreme is evidently contained in the medium, but the
medium not so evidently in the lesser extreme as not to
require further proof. Encyc.
AP-A-GOG'I-CAL, a. An apagogical demonstration is an

indirect way of proof, by showing the absurdity or im possibility of the contrary. AP-A-LACH'I-AN, a. Pertaining to the Apalaches, a tribe of Indians, in the western part of Georgia; and to the southern extremity of the Alleghanean ridges. A-PANTHRO-PY, n. [Gr. awo and av@pwros.] An aversion to the company of men; a love of solitude. AP-A-RITH ME-SIS, n. [Gr.] In rhetoric, enumeration. A-PART', adv. [Fr. aparté.] 1. Separately; at a distance; in a state of separation, as to place. 2. In a state of distinction, as to purpose, use or character. 3. Distinctly, separately. 4. Aside; in exclusion of.

A-PARTMENT, n. [Fr. apartement.] A room in a building; a division in a house, separated from others by partitions; a place separated by inclosure.

AP-A-THETIC, a. Void of feeling; free from passion; in

sensible. Harris.

APA-THY, n. [Gr. a and xa0os.] Want of feeling; ar utter privation of passion, or insensibility to pain.

AP A-TITE, n. A variety of phosphate of lime.
APE, n. [D. aap; Dan. abe; Sax., Sw. and Ir. apa; Ice
ape.] 1. A genus of quadrupeds, found in the torrid zone
of both continents, of a great variety of species. In com-
mon use, the word extends to all the tribe of monkeys and
baboons. 2. One who imitates servilely, in allusion to the
manners of the ape; a silly fellow.

APE, v. t. To imitate servilely; to mimick.
A-PEAK', adv. 1. On the point; in a posture to pierce.-2
In seamen's language, perpendicular.

AP'EN-NINE, a. [L. Apenninus.] Pertaining to or desig
nating a chain of mountains, which extend through Italy
AP EN-NINE,
APEN-NINES,
n. A chain of mountains in Italy.

A-PEPSY, n. [Gr. a and #т.] Defective digestion; gestion. Core. [Little used.]

indi

A'PER, n. One who apes.-In zoology, the wild boar.
A-PE'RI-ENT, a. [L. aperiens.] Opening; deobstruent;

laxative.

A-PE'RI-ENT, n. A medicine which promotes the circulation of the fluids, by removing obstructions; a laxative; a deobstruent.

A-PER'I-TIVE, a. Opening; deobstruent; aperient.

† A-PERT, a. [L. apertus.] Open; evident; undisguised. A-PERTION, n. The act of opening; the state of being opened; an opening; a gap. [Little used.] A-PERT LY, adv. Openly. Bale. [Little used.] A-PERT NESS, n. Openness. [Rarely used.] A-PERT OR, n. A muscle that raises the upper eye-lid. AP'ER-TURE, n. 1. The act of opening; an opening; a gap, cleft or chasm; a passage perforated. 2. An opening of meaning; explanation. [Not used.] Taylor. A-PET'A-LOUS, a. In botany, having no petals, or flowerleaves; having no corol.

A-PET'A-LOUS-NESS, n. A state of being without petals. A'PEX, n. ; plu. APEXES. [L. apex ; plu. apices.] The tip, point or summit of any thing.

APH'A-NITE, n. In mineralogy, compact amphibole in a particular state.

A-PHELION, n. [Gr. ano and nλtos.] That point of a planet's orbit which is most distant from the sun; opposed to perihelion.

APH-E-RE'SIS, n. [Gr. amo and atpew.] 1. The taking of a letter or syllable from the beginning of a word.-2. In the healing art, the removal of any thing noxious.-In surgery, amputation.

†A-PHETA, n. The name of a plant, which is the giver of life in a nativity. Dict.

† A-PHET'I-CAL, a. Relating to the apheta. APH-I-DIVO-ROUS, a. Eating, devouring, or subsisting on the aphis, or plant-louse.

APH-I-LANTHRO-PY, n. [Gr. a and piλav0ρwia.] Want of love to mankind.-In medicine, the first stage of melan choly, when solitude is preferred to society.

A'PHIS, n. In zoology, the puceron, vine-fretter, or plant louse; a genus of insects, belonging to the order of he mipters.

APH-LO-GISTIC, a. [Gr. a and pλoyiaros.] Flameless; as an aphlogistic lamp.

APHO-NY, n. [Gr. a and ovn.] A loss of voice; a pals of the tongue; dumbness; catalepsy.

APH'O-RISM, n. [Gr. apopiopos.] A maxim; a precept, q principle expressed in few words; a detached sentenc containing some important truth.

APH'O-RISM-ER, n. A dealer in aphorisms.
†APHO-RIST, n. A writer of aphorisms. Nelson.
APH-O-RISTIC, a. In the form of an aphorism;
APH-O-RISTI-CAL, the form of short, unconnected se

tences.

APH-O-RIS/TI-CAL-LY, adv. In the form or manner

aphorisms.

APHRITE, n. [Gr. appos.] A subvariety of carbonate lime.

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