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Various kinds of plant lice or aphids tended by ants for the sake of the honeydew which they secrete. See Aphips.

A neuropterous insect, the larva of which makes in the sand a pitfall to capture ants, etc. The common American species is Myrmeleon obsoletus, the European is M. formicarius.

Each player's stake, which is put into the pool before (ante) the game begins.

To anticipate; to make before the true time. And antedate the bliss above. Pope. Who rather rose the day to antedate. Wordsworth.

One who seceded from the Burghers (1747), deeming it improper to take the Burgess oath.

To make appear like a buffoon. [Obs.] Shak.

Anticipating; expectant; -- with of. Wakening guilt, anticipant of hell. Southey.

To be before in doing; to do or take before another; to preclude or prevent by prior action. To anticipate and prevent the duke's purpose. R. Hall. He would probably have died by the hand of the executioner, if indeed the executioner had not been anticipated by the populace. Macaulay.

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.

Straight lines or planes which make angles in some respect opposite in character to those made by parallel lines or planes.

The response which one side of the choir makes to the other in a chant; alternate chanting or signing.

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.

One taken at random rather than by selection; anybody.

In two or more parts; asunder; to piece; as, to take a piece of machinery apart.

y. A certain apathy or sluggishness in his nature which led him . . . to leave events to take their own course. Prescott. According to the Stoics, apathy meant the extinction of the passions by the ascendency of reason. Fleming.

To make aphorisms.

Roundish pearl-colored specks or flakes in the mouth, on the lips, etc., terminating in white sloughs. They are commonly characteristic of thrush.

A division of Amphineura in which the body is naked or covered with slender spines or setæ, but is without shelly plates.

One who makes an apology; one who speaks or writes in defense of a faith, a cause, or an institution; especially, one who argues in defense of Christianity.

To make an apology or defense. Dr. H. More.