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A woman who carries a canteen for soldiers; a vivandière.

The upwardly projecting rear part of saddle, opposite to the pommel. [Written also cante.]

The anterior or cardiac orifice of the stomach, where the esophagus enters it.

which originally inhabited the regions near the Catawba river and the head waters of the Santee.

A group of ruminants whose horns are hollow, and planted on a bony process of the front, as the ox.

Forwards; towards the head or anterior extremity of the body; opposed to caudad.

Of or pertaining to the head. See the Note under Anterior. Cephalic index (Anat.), the ratio of the breadth of the cranium to the length, which is taken as the standard, and equal to 100; the breadth index. -- Cephalic vein, a large vein running from the back of the head alond the arm; -- so named because the ancients…

The anterior region or head of insects and other arthropods. Packard.

The anterior end of the notochord and its bony sheath in the base of cartilaginous crania.

The anterior portion of any one of the Arachnida and higher Crustacea, consisting of the united head and thorax.

One of the jointed antenniform appendage of the posterior somites of cartain insects. Packard.

The anterior, and in man the larger, division of the brain; the seat of the reasoning faculties and the will. See Brain.

A fast dyestuff, C20H8O6, made by heating gallein with strong sulphuric acid. It dyes mordanted fabrics green.

. Wharton. -- Cestuy que use ( Etym: [Norm. F.], a person for whose use land, etc., is granted to another.

athe by means of lungs, and bring forth living young which they suckle for some time. The anterior limbs are changed to paddles; the tail flukes are horizontal. There are two living suborders: (a) The Mysticete or whalebone whales, having no true teeth after birth, but with a series of plates of whalebone [see Baleen.]…

Light jesting talk; banter; raillery.

The use of light, frivolous language by way of fun or ridicule; raillery; banter.

, when several ratios of equality are given, the consequent of each being the same as the antecedent of the next, the relation between the first antecedent and the last consequent is discovered. -- Chain shot (Mil.), two cannon balls united by a shot chain, formerly used in naval warfare on account of their destructiv…

A small species of antelope (Rupicapra tragus), living on the loftiest mountain ridges of Europe, as the Alps, Pyrenees, etc. It possesses remarkable agility, and is a favorite object of chase.

A chanter.