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g anomalous. We are enabled to unite into a consistent whole the various anomalies and contending principles that are found in the minds and affairs of men. Burke. As Professor Owen has remarked, there is no greater anomaly in nature than a bird that can not fly. Darwin.

Various kinds of plant lice or aphids tended by ants for the sake of the honeydew which they secrete. See Aphips.

One who contends with another, especially in combat; an adversary; an opponent. Antagonist of Heaven's Almigthy King. Milton. Our antagonists in these controversies. Hooker.

Opposing in combat, combating; contending or acting against; as, antagonistic forces. -- An*tag`o*nis"tic*al*ly, adv. They were distinct, adverse, even antagonistic. Milman.

To contend with; to oppose actively; to counteract.

Anything that neutralizes, or that counteracts an alkaline tendency in the system. Hoopplw.

Tending to check vomiting. -- n.

Counteractive of bilious complaints; tending to relieve biliousness.

Whatever tends to prevent mischievous effects, or to counteract evil which something else might produce.

Something to lessea. Tending to lessen friction.

Tending to stop hemorrhage. -- n.

Tending to prevent sleep. -- n.

Tending to prevent the formation of urinary calculi, or to destroy them when formed. -- n.

Tending to allay venereal excitement or desire; sedative.

Any medicine or diet which tends to check inflammation. Coxe.

iquated law. "Antiquated words." Dryden. Old Janet, for so he understood his antiquated attendant was denominated. Sir W. Scott.

Counteracting or preventing putrefaction, or a putrescent tendency in the system; antiputrefactive. Antiseptic surgery, that system of surgical practice which insists upon a systematic use of antiseptics in the performance of operations and the dressing of wounds.

Tending to interrupt or destroy social intercourse; averse to society, or hostile to its existence; as, antisocial principles.

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

The apogeotropic tendency of some leaves, and other parts.