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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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12,322 words match “ANT”

ANTALGIC a. 2 definitions

Alleviating pain. -- n.

ANTALKALI; ANTALKALINE n.

Anything that neutralizes, or that counteracts an alkaline tendency in the system. Hoopplw.

Of power to counteract alkalies.

ANTAMBULACRAL a.

Away from the ambulacral region.

ANTANACLASIS n. 2 definitions

A figure which consists in repeating the same word in a different sense; as, Learn some craft when young, that when old you may live without craft.

A figure which consists in answering the charge of an adversary, by a counter charge.

ANTAPHRODISIAC a. 2 definitions

Capable of blunting the venereal appetite. -- n.

ANTAPHRODITIC a. 3 definitions

Antaphrodisiac.

ANTAPOPLECTIC a. 2 definitions

Good against apoplexy. -- n.

Opposition to government in general. [R.]

One who opposes all government. [R.]

ANTARCHISTIC; ANTARCHISTICAL a.

Opposed to all human government. [R.]

ng to the southern pole or to the region near it, and applied especially to a circle, distant from the pole 23º 28min. Thus we say the antarctic pole, circle, ocean, region, current, etc.

The principal star in Scorpio: -- called also the Scorpion's Heart.

ANTARTHRITIC a.

A remedy against gout.

ANTASTHMATIC a. 2 definitions

Opposing, or fitted to relieve, asthma. -- n.

ANTE n. 2 definitions

Each player's stake, which is put into the pool before (ante) the game begins.

Before death; -- generally used adjectivelly; as, an ante- mortem statement; ante-mortem examination.

A Latin preposition and prefix; akin to Gr. anti, Goth. and-, anda- (only in comp.), AS. and-, ond-, (only in comp.: cf. Answer, Along), G. ant-, ent- (in comp.). The Latin ante is generally used in the sense of before, in regard to position, order, or time, and the Gr. opposite, or in the place of.…

A preceding act.