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Lofty speech; pompous language. [R.] Bailey.

High-sounding; pompous in speech. [R.] Bailey.

A dry kind of cherry, of a light color. Simmonds.

Certain books of the New Testament which were for a time not universally received, but which are now considered canonical. These are the Epistle to the Hebrews, the Epistles of James and Jude, the second Epistle of Peter, the second and third Epistles of John, and the Revelation. The undisputed books are called the Hom…

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

An antilithic medicine.

The number corresponding to a logarithm. The word has been sometimes, though rarely, used to denote the complement of a given logarithm; also the logarithmic cosine corresponding to a given logarithmic sine. -- An`ti*log`a*rith"mic, a.

Of the contrary name or character; -- opposed to analogous. Antilogous pole (Eccl.), that pole of a crystal which becomes negatively electrified when heated.

A contradiction between any words or passages in an author. Sir W. Hamilton.

A remedy against the plague. Brande & C.

Of or relating to the antelope.

A contradicter. [Obs.]

Contradiction. [Obs.]

Antihydrophobic.

A marginal note on a letter or other paper; an annotation. Motley.

Inhabiting the water. [R.] Sir T. Browne.

emble. [Obs.] If I was a philosopher, says Montaigne, I would naturalize art instead of artilizing nature. Bolingbroke.

A person skilled in artillery or gunnery; a gunner; an artilleryman.

war; implements for warfare, as slings, bows, and arrows. [Obs.] And Jonathan gave his artillery unto his lad. 1 Sam. xx. 40.

A kind of heavily built dished wheel with a long axle box, used on gun carriages, usually having 14 spokes and 7 felloes; hence, a wheel of similar construction for use on automobiles, etc.