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A group of chætopod annelids, including those that are not confined to tubes. See Chætopoda. [Written also Errantes.]

State of worry or excitment; fidget; ill humor. [Prov. Eng.] Dickens.

A form of conductor, designed by Ferranti, for currents of high potential, and consisting of concentric tubes of copper separated by an insulating material composed of paper saturated with black mineral wax.

nser of moderate capacity; -- so called because first observed in connection with the Ferranti cables in London.

Mad; raving; furious; violent; wild and disorderly; distracted. Die, frantic wretch, for this accursed deed! Shak. Torrents of frantic abuse. Macaulay. -- Fran"tic*al*ly, adv. -- Fran"tic*ly, adv. Shak. -- Fran"tic*ness, n. Johnson.

A dish of veal, chickens, or other white meat, freed from bones, tied up, boiled, and served cold. Smart.

of the earth's crust, resulting in the formation of a class of mountain elevations called anticlinoria; -- opposed to geosynclinal.

Pertaining or belonging to geomancy.

To play the giant. [R.] Sherwood.

Such as a giant might use, make, or cause; immense; tremendous; extraordinarly; as, gigantic deeds; gigantic wickedness. Milton. When descends on the Atlantic The gigantic Strom wind of the equinox. Longfellow.

Bulky, big. [Obs.] Burton. -- Gi*gan"tic*al*ly, adv.

The act of killing, or one who kills, a giant. Hallam.

Gigantic. [Obs.] Bullokar.

Of or relating to hierophants or their teachings.

Of or pertaining to divination by water.

The spirit of those who extol the advantage to ignorance; obscuriantism.

One opposed to the diffusion of knowledge; an obscuriantist.

Between antæ; -- said of a portico in classical style, where columns are set between two antæ, forming the angles of the building. See Anta.

Enchanting. [Obs.] Sir T. Herbert.

Of or pertaining to infanticide; engaged in, or guilty of, child murder.