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Character of an antiquary; study or love of antiquities. Warburton.

To act the part of an antiquary. [Colloq.]

Pertaining to antiquity. [R.] "Instructed by the antiquary times." Shak.

nce, to make void, or abrogate. Christianity might reasonably introduce new laws, and antiquate or abrogate old one. Sir M. Hale.

Grown old. Hence: Bygone; obsolete; out of use; old-fashioned; as, an antiquated law. "Antiquated words." Dryden. Old Janet, for so he understood his antiquated attendant was denominated. Sir W. Scott.

Quality of being antiquated.

Antiquatedness. [Obs.]

The act of making antiquated, or the state of being antiquated. Beaumont.

To approach. [Archaic] Ld. Lytton.

A drawing nigh; approach. [R.] Bp. Hall.

nd the old chemistry, in various signification, determined by the word or words annexed. Aqua ammoniæ, the aqueous solution of ammonia; liquid ammonia; often called aqua ammonia. -- Aqua marine, or Aqua marina. Same as Aquamarine. -- Aqua regia. Etym: [L., royal water] (Chem.), a very corrosive fuming yellow liquid c…

Nitric acid. [Archaic]

A transparent, pale green variety of beryl, used as a gem. See Beryl.

The introduction of water subcutaneously for the relief of pain.

A design or painting in thin transparent water colors; also, the mode of painting in such colors.

A painter in thin transparent water colors.

Of or pertaining to an aquarium.

One of a sect of Christian in the primitive church who used water instead of wine in the Lord's Supper.

ficial pond, or a globe or tank (usually with glass sides), in which living specimens of aquatic animals or plants are kept.

The Water-bearer; the eleventh sign in the zodiac, which the sun enters about the 20th of January; -- so called from the rains which prevail at that season in Italy and the East.