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Good against epilepsy. -- n.

Good against intestinal worms. -- An anthelmintic remedy. [Written also anthelminthic.]

A prefix meaning against, opposite or opposed to, contrary, or in place of; -- used in composition in many English words. It is often shortened to ant-; as, antacid, antarctic.

Inimical to bacteria; -- applied esp. to serum for protection against bacterial diseases.

Good or used against bubonic plague; as, antibubonic serum, obtained from immunized horses; antibubonic vaccine, a sterilized bouillon culture of the plague bacillus; antibubonic measures.

Efficacious against catarrh. -- n.

Good against an inflammatory fever. -- n.

Good against convulsions. J. Floyer.

teract 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.

Good against dysentery. -- n.

Good against dropsy. -- n.

Good against jaundice. -- n.

A remedy against the plague. Brande & C.

Good against malaria.

Good against mephitic or deletplwious gases. -- n.

Good against paralysis. -- n.

ion in feeling; settled aversion or dislike; repugnance; distaste. Inveterate antipathies against particular nations, and passionate attachments to others, are to be avoided. Washington.

Good against gout. -- n.

Good against burns or pyrosis. -- n.

Good against the rickets.