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Hostile to priests or the priesthood. Waterland.

The inhabitants of the earth, living on different sides of the equator, whose shadows at noon are cast in opposite directions. The inhabitants of the north and south temperate zones are always Antiscians. Brande & C.

Anthelmintic.

Counteracting scurvy. -- n.

Antiscorbutic.

Opposed to, or not in accordance with, the Holy Scriptures.

Standing before a sepal, or calyx leaf.

Prevention of sepsis by excluding or destroying microorganisms.

A substance which prevents or retards putrefaction, or destroys, or protects from, putrefactive organisms; as, salt, carbolic acid, alcohol, cinchona.

Counteracting or preventing putrefaction, or a putrescent tendency in the system; antiputrefactive. Antiseptic surgery, that system of surgical practice which insists upon a systematic use of antiseptics in the performance of operations and the dressing of wounds.

By means of antiseptics.

Checking the flow of saliva.

Opposed to slavery. -- n.

errupt or destroy social intercourse; averse to society, or hostile to its existence; as, antisocial principles.

One opposed to the doctrines and practices of socialists or socialism.

Opposite to the sun; -- said of the point in the heavens 180º distant from the sun.

Good against spasms. -- n.

A foot of four syllables, the first and fourth short, and the second and third long.

Counteracting spasms; antispasmodic. -- n.

An antisplenetic medicine.