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The warm-blooded vertebrates, comprising the mammals and birds; -- the antithesis to hematocrya.

One of the partially thickened anterior wings of certain insects, as of many Hemiptera, the earwigs, etc.

bumin is heated for some time with dilute sulphuric acid. It is apparently identical with antialbumid and dyspeptone.

cifically, in homeopathy, calcium sulphide, called also hepar sulphuris calcareum ( Hepar antimonii ( (Old Chem.), a substance, of a liver-brown color, obtained by fusing together antimony sulphide with alkaline sulphides, and consisting of sulphantimonites of the alkalies; -- called also liver of antimony.…

In this place; in the place where the speaker is; -- opposed to Ant: there. He is not here, for he is risen. Matt. xxviii. 6.

A division of Lepidoptera, including the moths, and hawk moths, which have the antennæ variable in form.

Having five tarsal joints in the anterior and middle legs, but only four in the posterior pair, as the blister beetles and oil beetles.

A suborder of Hemiptera, in which the base of the anterior wings is thickened. See Hemiptera.

ed Infusoria, having fine cilia all over the body, and a circle of larger ones around the anterior end.

The Anthozoa.

Having high antlers; bearing full-grown antlers aloft.

The earth raised about the roots of a plant or cluster of plants. [U. S.] See Hill, v. t.

Hoariness; antiquity. [R.] Covered with the awful hoar of innumerable ages. Burke.

Hence, remote in time past; as, hoary antiquity.

Testament which were acknowledged as canonical by the early church; -- distinguished from antilegomena.

Having the same relative proportion or value, as the two antecedents or the two consequents of a proportion.

A sailor's contemptuous term for any antiquated craft.

g, and usually pointed organ, growing upon the heads of certain animals, esp. of the ruminants, as cattle, goats, and the like. The hollow horns of the Ox family consist externally of true horn, and are never shed.

actice, or method of measuring time by hours and subordinate divisions. "The horometry of antiquity." Sir T. Browne.

ommon use; hence, bread that is not of the finest quality. [Obs.] -- Household gods (Rom. Antiq.), the gods presiding over the house and family; the Lares and Penates; hence, all objects endeared by association with home. -- Household troops, troops appointed to attend and guard the sovereign or his residence.…