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Something to lessea. Tending to lessen friction.

Causing a diminution or a suppression of the secretion of milk.

A copy or transcript.

A crooked tube of metal, to be introduced into the neck of a bottle for drawing out the liquid without disturbing the sediment or causing a gurgling noise.

The curved elevation of the cartilage of the ear, within or in front of the helix. See Ear.

Tending to stop hemorrhage. -- n.

Counteracting or preventing hydrophobia. -- n.

Good against dropsy. -- n.

An antihypnotic agent.

Counteractive of hypochondria. -- n.

Counteracting hysteria. -- n.

Good against jaundice. -- n.

Certain books of the New Testament which were for a time not universally received, but which are now considered canonical. These are the Epistle to the Hebrews, the Epistles of James and Jude, the second Epistle of Peter, the second and third Epistles of John, and the Revelation. The undisputed books are called the Hom…

A balancing; equipoise. [R.] De Quincey.

An antilithic medicine.

The number corresponding to a logarithm. The word has been sometimes, though rarely, used to denote the complement of a given logarithm; also the logarithmic cosine corresponding to a given logarithmic sine. -- An`ti*log`a*rith"mic, a.

Of the contrary name or character; -- opposed to analogous. Antilogous pole (Eccl.), that pole of a crystal which becomes negatively electrified when heated.

A contradiction between any words or passages in an author. Sir W. Hamilton.

A remedy against the plague. Brande & C.

Of or relating to the antelope.