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One of a group of ruminant quadrupeds, intermediate between the deer and the goat. The horns are usually annulated, or ringed. There are many species in Africa and Asia. The antelope and wolf both fierce and fell. Spenser.

The hangings or screen in front of the altar; an altar cloth; the frontal. Smollett.

The stipe when developed into an internode between calyx and corolla, as in the Pink family. Gray.

A heavy green oil (partially solidifying on cooling), which distills over from coal tar at a temperature above 270º. It is the principal source of anthracene.

ich constitute the contagious matter. It may be transmitted to man by inoculation. The spleen becomes greatly enlarged and filled with bacteria. Called also splenic fever.

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

uld probably have died by the hand of the executioner, if indeed the executioner had not been anticipated by the populace. Macaulay.

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.

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

A secondary mask, or grotesque interlude, between the parts of a serious mask. [Written also anue.] Bacon.

ater have antipathy. A habit is generated of thinking that a natural antipathy exists between hope and reason. I. Taylor.

r contrariety unto Christ's judgment, a more perfect antipodes to all that hath hitherto been gospel Hammond.

Good as a remedy against disease of the spleen. -- n.

the miser robs himself." "He had covertly shot at Cromwell; he how openly aimed at the Queen."

e horn, or any branch of the horn, of a cervine animal, as of a stag. Huge stags with sixteen antlers. Macaulay.

Native phosphate of lime, occurring usually in six-sided prisms, color often pale green, transparent or translucent.

In a vertical line. The anchor in apeak, when the cable has been sufficiently hove in to bring the ship over it, and the ship is them said to be hove apeak. [Spelt also apeek.]

cleft, or chasm; a passage perforated; a hole; as, an aperture in a wall. An aperture between the mountains. Gilpin. The back aperture of the nostrils. Owen.

To shorten by aphesis. These words . . . have been aphetized. New Eng. Dict.

e order Hemiptera and family Aphidæ, including numerous species known as plant lice and green flies.