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uarries near Paris; characterized by the shortness and feebleness of their canine teeth (whence the name).

To be or act in return or response to. Hence:

Correspondent; conformable; hence, comparable. What wit and policy of man is answerable to their discreet and orderly course Holland. This revelation . . . was answerable to that of the apostle to the Thessalonians. Milton.

A medicine which opposes the action of another medicine or of a poison when absorbed into the blood or tissues.

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

Of or relating to the period before the Deluge in Noah's time; hence, antiquated; as, an antediluvian vehicle. -- n.

That part of the stamen containing the pollen, or fertilizing dust, which, when mature, is emitted for the impregnation of the ovary. -- An"ther*al, a.

Lit., fond of flowers; hence, feeding upon, or living among, flowers.

The stipe when developed into an internode between calyx and corolla, as in the Pink family. Gray.

A coal-black marble, usually emitting a fetid smell when rubbed; -- called also stinkstone and swinestone.

Knowledge of the nature of man; hence, human wisdom.

ing an antidote. Nor could Alexander himself . . . antidote . . . the poisonous draught, when it had once got into his veins. South.

Tending to prevent the formation of urinary calculi, or to destroy them when formed. -- n.

us. Antilogous pole (Eccl.), that pole of a crystal which becomes negatively electrified when heated.

The use of words in a sense opposite to their proper meaning; as when a court of justice is called a court of vengeance.

ake 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.

ng of the chorus, exactly answering to a previous strophe or movement from right to left. Hence: The lines of this part of the choral song. It was customary, on some occasions, to dance round the altars whilst they sang the sacred hymns, which consisted of three stanzas or parts; the first of which, called strophe, was…

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, or an eminent orator a Cicero.…

Incus. To be on the anvil, to be in a state of discussion, formation, or preparation, as when a scheme or measure is forming, but not matured. Swift.