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Opposed to all human government. [R.]

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.

A remedy against gout.

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

A Spanish red wine made of the first ripe grapes.

A governor of a province; a commander. Prescott.

rticularly favorable to success, or to any desired end; benefit; as, the enemy had the advantage of a more elevated position. Give me advantage of some brief discourse. Shak. The advantages of a close alliance. Macaulay.

Advantageous. [Obs.]

Being of advantage; conferring advantage; gainful; profitable; useful; beneficial; as, an advantageous position; trade is advantageous to a nation. Advabtageous comparison with any other country. Prescott. You see . . . of what use a good reputation is, and how swift and advantageous a harbinger it is, wherever one goe…

Profitably; with advantage.

Profitableness.

Same as Almucantar.

llel to the horizon; a circle or parallel of altitude. Two stars which have the same almucantar have the same altitude. See Almacantar. [Archaic] Almucanter staff, an ancient instrument, having an arc of fifteen degrees, formerly used at sea to take observations of the sun's amplitude at the time of its rising or setti…

Of, pertaining to, or resembling, the family of plants of which the amaranth is the type.

See Anta.

Assonant.

A genus of small glassy heteropod mollusks found swimming at the surface in mid ocean. See Heteropod.

Relating to the atlas.

A variety of small barnyard fowl, with feathered legs, probably brought from Bantam, a district of Java.