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Anything that neutralizes, or that counteracts an alkaline tendency in the system. Hoopplw.

Various kinds of plant lice or aphids tended by ants for the sake of the honeydew which they secrete. See Aphips.

Any aphid from which ants obtain honeydew.

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.

One of a group of ruminant quadrupeds, intermediate between the deer and the goat. The horns are usually annulated, or ringed. There are many species in Africa and Asia. The antelope and wolf both fierce and fell. Spenser.

cavity of the ear is situated near the basal joint. In insects, they are popularly called horns, and also feelers. The term in also applied to similar organs on the heads of other arthropods and of annelids.

A mineral of the hornblende group, of a yellowish gray or clove brown color. -- An`tho*phyl*lit"ic, a.

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.

A dangerous inflammatory swelling of a horse's breast, just opposite the heart.

econd and third Epistles of John, and the Revelation. The undisputed books are called the Homologoumena.

of the two halves of bilaterally symmetrical animals; one of any opposite symmetrical or homotypic parts in animals and plants.

have antipathy. A habit is generated of thinking that a natural antipathy exists between hope and reason. I. Taylor.

Hostile to priests or the priesthood. Waterland.

Opposed to, or not in accordance with, the Holy Scriptures.

Tending to interrupt or destroy social intercourse; averse to society, or hostile to its existence; as, antisocial principles.

ame sentence; as, "The prodigal robs his heir; the miser robs himself." "He had covertly shot at Cromwell; he how openly aimed at the Queen."

The entire horn, or any branch of the horn, of a cervine animal, as of a stag. Huge stags with sixteen antlers. Macaulay.

One indifferently, out of an indefinite number; one indefinitely, whosoever or whatsoever it may be.

One who holds to no particular creed or dogma.

A room in a building; a division in a house, separated from others by partitions. Fielding.