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r determining the strength of spirits, with a scale graduated so as to indicate the percentage of pure alcohol, either by weight or volume. It is usually a form of hydrometer with a special scale.

A preservative against contagious and infectious diseases, and the effects of poison in general. Brande & C.

lowance of a specific amount of scrip or of a particular thing to a particular person. Cottage allotment, an allotment of a small portion of land to a country laborer for garden cultivation. [Eng.]

A state of being alone, or without company; solitariness. [R.] Bp. Montagu.

A chronic contagious affection of the skin, prevalent in the tropics.

apable of long-continued multiplication, in transitory structures, and in those in early stages of degeneration.

A strong passion or emotion of displeasure or antagonism, excited by a real or supposed injury or insult to one's self or others, or by the intent to do such injury. Anger is like A full hot horse, who being allowed his way, Self- mettle tires him. Shak.

The state of being and old woman; old-womanishness; dotage. "Marks of anility." Sterne.

A solid hydrocarbon, C6H4.C2H2.C6H4, which accompanies naphthalene in the last stages of the distillation of coal tar. Its chief use is in the artificial production of alizarin. [Written also anthracin.]

nce of a rod-shaped bacterium (Bacillus anthracis), the spores of which constitute the contagious matter. It may be transmitted to man by inoculation. The spleen becomes greatly enlarged and filled with bacteria. Called also splenic fever.

Any of various bodies or substances in the blood which act in antagonism to harmful foreign bodies, as toxins or the bacteria producing the toxins. Normal blood serum apparently contains variousantibodies, and the introduction of toxins or of foreign cells also results in the development of their specific antibodies.…

A denier or opponent of Christ. Specif.: A great antagonist, person or power, expected to precede Christ's second coming.

Antagonistic to one's country or nation, or to a national government.

Preventing the contagion of smallpox.

The entire horn, or any branch of the horn, of a cervine animal, as of a stag. Huge stags with sixteen antlers. Macaulay.

Furnished with antlers. The antlered stag. Cowper.

cation of oxygen, but now known to be hydrogen dioxide; -- so called because apparently antagonistic to ozone, converting it into ordinary oxygen.

aberration. In certain forms of lenses there are two such foci; and it is by taking advantage of this fact that the best aplanatic object glasses of microscopes are constructed.

t of common lands, by inclosing and converting them to the uses of husbandry for the advantage of the lord of the manor. Blackstone.

ody, upon which troops are formed, or by which are marched in line or column. (b) An advantageous defensive support, as a castle, morass, wood, declivity, etc.