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Before birth. Shelley.

Pertaining to the time before the Passover, or before Easter.

A foretaste. Antepasts of joy and comforts. Jer. Taylor.

To put before; to prefer. [Obs.] Bailey.

The placing of a before another, which, by ordinary rules, ought to follow it.

Before in time; antecedent. Antigonus, who was anterior to Polybius. Sir G. C. Lewis.

In an anterior manner; before.

A room before, or forming an entrance to, another; a waiting room.

The two projecting feathered angles of the forehead of some birds; the frontal points.

Any of various bodies or substances in the blood which act in antagonism to harmful foreign bodies, as toxins or the bacteria producing the toxins. Normal blood serum apparently contains variousantibodies, and the introduction of toxins or of foreign cells also results in the development of their specific antibodies.…

Of or pertaining to the antibrachium, or forearm.

That part of the fore limb between the brachium and the carpus; the forearm.

To be before in doing; to do or take before another; to preclude or prevent by prior action. To anticipate and prevent the duke's purpose. R. Hall. He would probably have died by the hand of the executioner, if indeed the executioner had not been anticipated by the populace. Macaulay.

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.

Forecasting; of the nature of anticipation. Owen. Here is an anticipatory glance of what was to be. J. C. Shairp.

Standing before a petal, as a stamen.

A verse said before and after the psalms. Shipley.

Standing before a sepal, or calyx leaf.

to west; the other, named antistrophe, in returning from west to east; then they stood before the altar, and sang the epode, which was the last part of the song. Abp. Potter.

To any extent; in any degree; at all. You are not to go loose any longer. Shak. Before you go any farther. Steele.