An`ti*zym"ic (&?;), a. Preventing fermentation.
An`ti*zy*mot"ic (&?;), a. (Med.) Preventing fermentation or decomposition. -- n. An agent so used.
Ant"ler (&?;), n. [OE. auntelere, OF. antoillier, andoiller, endouiller, fr. F. andouiller, fr. an assumed LL. antocularis, fr. L. ante before + oculus eye. See Ocular.] (Zoöl.) The entire horn, or any branch of the horn, of a cervine animal, as of a stag.
Huge stags with sixteen antlers.
Macaulay.
The branch next to the head is called the brow antler, and the branch next above, the bez antler, or bay antler. The main stem is the beam, and the branches are often called tynes. Antlers are deciduous bony (not horny) growths, and are covered with a periosteum while growing. See Velvet.
Antler moth (Zoöl.), a destructive European moth (Cerapteryx graminis), which devastates grass lands.
Ant"lered (&?;), a. Furnished with antlers.
The antlered stag.
Cowper.
||Ant"li*a (&?;), n.; pl. Antilæ (&?;). [L., a pump, Gr, &?; hold of a ship] (Zoöl.) The spiral tubular proboscis of lepidopterous insects. See Lepidoptera.
Ant"-li`on (&?;), n. (Zoöl.) 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.
||An*tœ"ci (n*t"s), An*tœ"cians (-shanz), n. pl. [NL. antoeci, fr. Gr. pl. 'a`ntoiki; 'anti` opposite + o'ikei^n to live.] Those who live under the same meridian, but on opposite parallels of latitude, north and south of the equator.
||An`to*no*ma"si*a (?; 277), n. [L., fr. Gr. &?;, fr. &?; to name instead; &?; + &?; to name, &?; name.] (Rhet.) 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.
An`to*no*mas"tic (&?;), a. Pertaining to, or characterized by, antonomasia. -- An`to*no*mas"tic*al*ly (&?;), adv.
An*ton"o*ma*sy (&?;), n. Antonomasia.
An"to*nym (&?;), n. [Gr. &?; a word used in substitution for another; &?; + &?;, &?;, a word.] A word of opposite meaning; a counterterm; -- used as a correlative of synonym. [R.] C. J. Smith.
Ant*or"bit*al (&?;), a. [Pref. anti- + orbital.] (Anat.) Pertaining to, or situated in, the region of the front of the orbit. -- n. The antorbital bone.
Ant`or*gas"tic (&?;), a. See Antiorgastic.
Ant*o"zone (&?;), n. [Pref. anti- + ozone.] (Chem.) 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.
An"tral (&?;), a. (Anat.) Relating to an antrum.
An"tre (&?;), n. [F. antre, L. antrum, fr. Gr. &?;.] A cavern. [Obs.] Shak.
An*trorse" (n*trôrs"), a. [From L. ante + versun turned; apparently formed in imitation of retrorse.] (Bot.) Forward or upward in direction. Gray.
An`tro*vert" (&?;), v. t. To bend forward. [R.] Owen.
||An"trum (&?;), n.; pl. Antra (&?;). [L., fr. Gr. &?;.] A cavern or cavity, esp. an anatomical cavity or sinus. Huxley.
||An*trus"tion (&?;), n. [F., fr. LL. antrustio.] A vassal or voluntary follower of Frankish princes in their enterprises.
Ant" thrush` (&?;). (Zoöl.) (a) One of several species of tropical birds, of the Old World, of the genus Pitta, somewhat resembling the thrushes, and feeding chiefly on ants. (b) See Ant bird, under Ant.
||A*nu"bis (&?;), n. [L.] (Myth.) An Egyptian deity, the conductor of departed spirits, represented by a human figure with the head of a dog or fox.
||A*nu"ra (*n"r), n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. 'an priv. + o'yra` a tail.] (Zoöl.) One of the orders of amphibians characterized by the absence of a tail, as the frogs and toads. [Written also anoura.]
A*nu"rous (&?;), a. (Zoöl.) Destitute of a tail, as the frogs and toads. [Also written anourous.]
An"u*ry (&?;), n. [Gr. 'an priv. + o'y^ron urine.] (Med.) Nonsecretion or defective secretion of urine; ischury.
||A"nus (&?;), n. [L., prob. for asnus: cf. Gr. &?; to sit, Skr. s.] (Anat.) The posterior opening of the alimentary canal, through which the excrements are expelled.
An"vil (&?;), n. [OE. anvelt, anfelt, anefelt, AS. anfilt, onfilt; of uncertain origin; cf. OHG. anafalz, D. aanbeld.] 1. An iron block, usually with a steel face, upon which metals are hammered and shaped.
2. Anything resembling an anvil in shape or use. Specifically (Anat.), the incus. See Incus.
To be on the anvil, to be in a state of discussion, formation, or preparation, as when a scheme or measure is forming, but not matured. Swift.
An"vil, v. t. To form or shape on an anvil; to hammer out; as, anviled armor. Beau. & Fl.