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A small wild ox of Celebes (Anoa depressicornis), allied to the buffalo, but having long nearly straight horns.

right off. [Obs.] Chaucer. -- Ever and anon, now and then; frequently; often. A pouncet box, which ever and anon He gave his nose. Shak.

Want of appetite, without a loathing of food. Coxe.

A hydrocarbon, C6H4.C2O2.C6H4, subliming in shining yellow needles. It is obtained by oxidation of anthracene.

ent poison prepared in Java from the gum resin of one species of the upas tree (Antiaris toxicaria).

bodies or substances in the blood which act in antagonism to harmful foreign bodies, as toxins or the bacteria producing the toxins. Normal blood serum apparently contains variousantibodies, and the introduction of toxins or of foreign cells also results in the development of their specific antibodies.…

A remedy to counteract the effects of poison, or of anything noxious taken into the stomach; -- used with against, for, or to; as, an antidote against, for, or to, poison.

preparation or medicine containing antimony. Antimonial powder, a consisting of one part oxide of antimony and two parts phosphate of calcium; -- also called James's powder.

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

Any medicine or diet which tends to check inflammation. Coxe.

Preventing the contagion of smallpox.

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

A compound formerly supposed to be modification of oxygen, but now known to be hydrogen dioxide; -- so called because apparently antagonistic to ozone, converting it into ordinary oxygen.

e conductor of departed spirits, represented by a human figure with the head of a dog or fox.

Defective digestion, indigestion. Coxe.

Want of love to mankind; -- the opposite of philanthropy. Coxe.

To place in juxtaposition or proximity.

To draw near, in a figurative sense; to make advances; to approximate; as, he approaches to the character of the ablest statesman.

A small fish (Toxotes jaculator), of the East Indies; -- so called from its ejecting drops of water from its mouth at its prey. The name is also applied to Chætodon rostratus.

The act of bending or curving; incurvation; the state of being bent; crookedness. Coxe.