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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.

Those who live under the same meridian, but on opposite parallels of latitude, north and south of the equator.

Anywise; at all. Tennyson. Southey.

A place on the south side of the chancel in the primitive churches, furnished with shelves, for books, vestments, etc. Weale.

A constellation south of Pegasus.

A northern constellation southerly from Lyra and Cygnus and preceding the Dolphin; the Eagle. Aquila alba Etym: [L., white eagle], an alchemical name of calomel. Brande & C.

The Altar; a southern constellation, south of the tail of the Scorpion.

A South American bird, of the genus Pleroglossius, allied to the toucans. There are several species.

A South American monkey, the ursine howler (Mycetes ursinus). See Howler, n., 2.

A large fresh-water food fish of South America.

A genus of tall conifers of the pine family. The species are confined mostly to South America and Australia. The wood cells differ from those of other in having the dots in their lateral surfaces in two or three rows, and the dots of contiguous rows alternating. The seeds are edible.

To decide, or determine generally. South. There shall your swords and lances arbitrate The swelling difference of your settled hate. Shak.

. Macaulay. Types and shadows of that glorious archetype that was to come into the world. South.

Of or pertaining to the Argentine Republic in South America.