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To reduce to nothing; to obliterate. Light, the prime work of God, to me's extinct. And all her various objects of delight Annulled. Milton.

Serving to assuage pain; soothing. The anodyne draught of oblivion. Burke.

Anything anomalous. [R.]

Deviation from the common rule; an irregularity; anything 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.…

Want of appetite, without a loathing of food. Coxe.

nt to, or as adequate or sufficient for; to serve for; to repay. [R.] Money answereth all things. Eccles. x. 19.

Opposition of action; counteraction or contrariety of things or principles.

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

Anything that quells the venereal appetite.

Something done before another act. [Obs.]

The ascription of human characteristics to things not human.

One who attributes the human form or other human attributes to the Deity or to anything not human.

Anything to prevent the effects of friction, esp. a compound lubricant for machinery, etc., often consisting of plumbago, with some greasy material; antifriction grease.

The act of anticipating, taking up, placing, or considering something beforehand, or before the proper time in natural order. So shall my anticipation prevent your discovery. Shak.

A remedy to counteract the effects of poison, or of anything noxious taken into the stomach; -- used with against, for, or to; as, an antidote against, for, or to, poison.

Something to lessea. Tending to lessen friction.

Having a natural contrariety, or constitutional aversion, to a thing; characterized by antipathy; -- often followed by to. Fuller.

One of the antipodes; anything exactly opposite. In tale or history your beggar is ever the just antipode to your king. Lamb.

Anything exactly opposite or contrary. Can there be a greater contrariety unto Christ's judgment, a more perfect antipodes to all that hath hitherto been gospel Hammond.

The opposite pole; anything diametrically opposed. Geo. Eliot.