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Pertaining to the Anseres.

Resembling a goose; silly; simple. Sydney Smith.

To speak in defense against; to reply to in defense; as, to answer a charge; to answer an accusation.

Obliged to answer; liable to be called to account; liable to pay, indemnify, or make good; accountable; amenable; responsible; as, an agent is answerable to his principal; to be answerable for a debt, or for damages. Will any man argue that . . . he can not be justly punished, but is answerable only to God Swift.…

The quality of being answerable, liable, responsible, or correspondent.

In an answerable manner; in due proportion or correspondence; suitably.

One who answers.

Having no answer, or impossible to be answered. Byron.

A hymenopterous insect of the Linnæan genus Formica, which is now made a family of several genera; an emmet; a pismire.

See Ant bird, under Ant, n.

Any aphid from which ants obtain honeydew.

One of the small white egg-shaped pupæ or cocoons of the ant, often seen in or about ant-hills, and popularly supposed to be eggs.

f tropical birds, of the Old World, of the genus Pitta, somewhat resembling the thrushes, and feeding chiefly on ants.

See Anti-, prefix.

An edentate animal of tropical America (the Tamanoir), living on ants. It belongs to the genus Myrmecophaga.

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

One of several species of edentates and monotremes that feed upon ants. See Ant-bear, Pangolin, Aard-vark, and Echidna.

A mound thrown up by ants or by termites in forming their nests.

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.

thickening a wall at its termination, treated architecturally as a pilaster, with capital and base.