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Something to lessea. Tending to lessen friction.

A balancing; equipoise. [R.] De Quincey.

antimony in which this element has an equivalence next lower than the highest; as, antimonious acid.

Antagonistic to one's country or nation, or to a national government.

Pertaining to Antiochus, a contemporary with Cicero, and the founder of a sect of philosophers.

Efficacious in curing toothache. -- n.

Tending to allay venereal excitement or desire; sedative.

A remedy possessing the property of preventing the return of periodic paroxysms, or exacerbations, of disease, as in intermittent fevers.

The act of making antiquated, or the state of being antiquated. Beaumont.

Opposition to vaccination. London Times.

An antivaccinist.

Preventing the contagion of smallpox.

Opposition to vivisection.

One opposed to vivisection

A vassal or voluntary follower of Frankish princes in their enterprises.

p. respecting future or unknown; being in painful suspense; -- applied to persons; as, anxious for the issue of a battle.

In an anxious manner; with painful uncertainty; solicitously.

The quality of being anxious; great solicitude; anxiety.

The act of opening; an opening; an aperture. [Archaic] Wiseman.

or comet's orbit which is most distant from the sun, the opposite point being the perihelion.