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olitary; -- applied to a person or thing. Alone on a wide, wide sea. Coleridge. It is not good that the man should be alone. Gen. ii. 18.

ll things appertaining unto this life, for sundry wise ends alternates the disposition of good and evil. Grew.

ship, in a general sense, between individuals, societies, or nations; friendly relations; good understanding; as, a treaty of amity and commerce; the amity of the Whigs and Tories. To live on terms of amity with vice. Cowper.

th of; formerly with on. Thy roses amorous of the moon. Keats. High nature amorous of the good. Tennyson. Sure my brother is amorous on Hero. Shak.

estors; ancestral lineage; hence, birth or honorable descent. Title and ancestry render a good man more illustrious, but an ill one more contemptible. Addison.

A messenger. [R.] The dear good angel of the Spring, The nightingale. B. Jonson.

of no effect; to destroy the force, etc., of; as, to annihilate an argument, law, rights, goodness.

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.…

Good against apoplexy. -- n.

Good against nightmare. -- n.

Good against epilepsy. -- n.

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

s of small beetles, several of which, in the larval state, are very destructive to woolen goods, fur, etc. The common "museum pest" is A. varius; the carpet beetle is A. scrophulariæ. The larvæ are commonly confounded with moths.

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.

Good against an inflammatory fever. -- n.

Good against convulsions. J. Floyer.

Good against dysentery. -- n.

Good against dropsy. -- n.

Good against jaundice. -- n.

Good against malaria.