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To walk; to move about. [R.] Southey.

d to North America; called bowfin in Lake Champlain, dogfish in Lake Erie, and mudfish in South Carolina, etc. See Bowfin.

A kind of viper in southern Europe. [Obs.]

me of his mistress in the dust, or upon the damp earth, with letters fixed upon his shoe. Southey.

pic, whose shadows in one part of the year are cast to the north, and in the other to the south, according as the sun is south or north of their zenith.

A genus of amphibians, inhabiting the Southern United States, having a serpentlike form, but with four minute limbs and two persistent gill openings; the Congo snake.

en with on or upon. Watts. He must often enlarge and amplify upon the subject he handles. South.

or ortive: at the setting, it is western, occiduous, or occasive. It is also northern or southern, when north or south of the equator.

A large South American snake of the Boa family (Eunectes murinus), which lives near rivers, and preys on birds and small mammals. The name is also applied to a similar large serpent (Python tigris) of Ceylon.

Of or pertaining to Anam, to southeastern Asia. -- n.

An aromatic bark used as a tonic, obtained from a South American of the rue family (Galipea cusparia, or officinalis). U. S. Disp.

A South American aquatic bird; the horned screamer or kamichi (Palamedea cornuta). See Kamichi.

An aquatic bird of the southern United States (Platus anhinga); the darter, or snakebird.

Opposite to the northern or arctic pole; relating to the southern pole or to the region near it, and applied especially to a circle, distant from the pole 23º 28min. Thus we say the antarctic pole, circle, ocean, region, current, etc.

That which goes before in time; that which precedes. South. The Homeric mythology, as well as the Homeric language, has surely its antecedents. Max Miller.

Anticipating; expectant; -- with of. Wakening guilt, anticipant of hell. Southey.

himself . . . antidote . . . the poisonous draught, when it had once got into his veins. South.

Opposed to the office or authority of magistrates. [Obs.] South.

The tenets or practice of Antinomians. South.

, whose shadows at noon are cast in opposite directions. The inhabitants of the north and south temperate zones are always Antiscians. Brande & C.