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Counteractive of bilious complaints; tending to relieve biliousness.

ariousantibodies, and the introduction of toxins or of foreign cells also results in the development of their specific antibodies.

Good against an inflammatory fever. -- n.

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.

ething beforehand, or before the proper time in natural order. So shall my anticipation prevent your discovery. Shak.

wireless signals. The electric waves falling on this contrivance increase its resistance several times. The anticoherer can be used in conjunction with a telephone.

Whatever tends to prevent mischievous effects, or to counteract evil which something else might produce.

Counteracting or preventing hydrophobia. -- n.

Tending to prevent sleep. -- n.

es and Jude, the second Epistle of Peter, the second and third Epistles of John, and the Revelation. The undisputed books are called the Homologoumena.

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

A cover for the back or arms of a chair or sofa, etc., to prevent them from being soiled by macassar or other oil from the hair.

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

ung alternately by a choir or congregation divided into two parts. Also figuratively. O! never more for me shall winds intone, With all your tops, a vast antiphony. R. Browning.

Preventing or checking the process of healing, or granulation.

One of the antipodes; anything exactly opposite. In tale or history your beggar is ever the just antipode to your king. Lamb.

Checking or preventing suppuration. -- n.

The condition or state of being free from fever.

Efficacious in preventing or allaying fever. -- n.

An artificial alkaloid, believed to be efficient in abating fever.