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Opposition or resistance of matter to force. [R.] Sir W. Hamilton.

Opposition to vaccination. London Times.

An antivaccinist.

One opposed to vaccination.

Preventing the contagion of smallpox.

Good against venereal poison; antisyphilitic.

The serum of blood rendered antitoxic to a venom by repeated injections of small doses of the venom.

Opposition to vivisection.

One opposed to vivisection

Preventing fermentation.

Preventing fermentation or decomposition. -- n.

rn, or any branch of the horn, of a cervine animal, as of a stag. Huge stags with sixteen antlers. Macaulay.

Furnished with antlers. The antlered stag. Cowper.

The spiral tubular proboscis of lepidopterous insects. See Lepidoptera.

Those who live under the same meridian, but on opposite parallels of latitude, north and south of the equator.

The use of some epithet or the name of some office, dignity, or the like, instead of the proper name of the person; as when his majesty is used for a king, or when, instead of Aristotle, we say, the philosopher; or, conversely, the use of a proper name instead of an appellative, as when a wise man is called a Solomon,…

Pertaining to, or characterized by, antonomasia. -- An`to*no*mas"tic*al*ly, adv.

Antonomasia.

A word of opposite meaning; a counterterm; -- used as a correlative of synonym. [R.] C. J. Smith.

The antorbital bone.