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A small, flat fillet, encircling a column, etc., used by itself, or with other moldings. It is used, several times repeated, under the Doric capital.

Foretold; preannounced. [Obs.] Chaucer.

ong to the family Iguanidæ. They take the place in the New World of the chameleons in the Old, and in America are often called chameleons.

e Culex are very short. They also assume different positions when resting, Culex usually holding the body parallel to the surface on which it rests and keeping the head and beak bent at an angle, while Anopheles holds the body at an angle with the surface and the head and beak in line with it. Unless they become themse…

Shak. So spake the apostate angel, though in pain: . . . And him thus answered soon his bold compeer. Milton.

Equal; equivalent; adequate. [Archaic] Had the valor of his soldiers been answerable, he had reached that year, as was thought, the utmost bounds of Britain. Milton.

One of several species of tropical birds, of the Old World, of the genus Pitta, somewhat resembling the thrushes, and feeding chiefly on ants.

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

An outwork of a strong, high wall, with turrets, in front gateway (as of an old castle), for defending the entrance.

Old; antique. (Zoöl.)

To make old, or obsolete; to make antique; to make old in such a degree as to put out of use; hence, to make void, or abrogate. Christianity might reasonably introduce new laws, and antiquate or abrogate old one. Sir M. Hale.

Grown old. Hence: Bygone; obsolete; out of use; old-fashioned; as, an antiquated law. "Antiquated words." Dryden. Old Janet, for so he understood his antiquated attendant was denominated. Sir W. Scott.

Old; ancient; of genuine antiquity; as, an antique statue. In this sense it usually refers to the flourishing ages of Greece and Rome. For the antique world excess and pride did hate. Spenser.

Old age. [Obs.] It not your voice broken . . . and every part about you blasted with antiquity Shak.

In any measure; anywise; at all. Mine old good will and hearty affection towards you is not . . . anything at all quailed. Robynson (More's Utopia).

One who holds to no particular creed or dogma.

aphus) having a long mane on the breast and fore legs. It is, perhaps, the chamois of the Old Testament.

A large marine annelid, covered with long, lustrous, golden, hairlike setæ; the sea mouse.

Not plastic or easily molded.

ples once held, or the party to which one has previously adhered. He apostatized from his old faith in facts, took to believing in Carlyle.