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The science of man; -- sometimes used in a limited sense to mean the study of man as an object of natural history, or as an animal.

A prefix meaning against, opposite or opposed to, contrary, or in place of; -- used in composition in many English words. It is often shortened to ant-; as, antacid, antarctic.

The use of words in a sense opposite to their proper meaning; as when a court of justice is called a court of vengeance.

By means of antiseptics.

A word of opposite meaning; a counterterm; -- used as a correlative of synonym. [R.] C. J. Smith.

. . . to leave events to take their own course. Prescott. According to the Stoics, apathy meant the extinction of the passions by the ascendency of reason. Fleming.

Having or designating conspicuous or warning colors or structures indicative of special means of defense against enemies, as in the skunk.

Things provided as means to some end.

Resort to physical means; recourse. Every milder method is to be tried, before a nation makes an appeal to arms. Kent.

d by clapping the hands, stamping or tapping with the feet, acclamation, huzzas, or other means; marked commendation. The brave man seeks not popular applause. Dryden.

The thing applied or used as a means to an end; an apparatus or device; as, to use various appliances; a mechanical appliance; a machine with its appliances.

The act of applying as a means; the employment of means to accomplish an end; specific use. If a right course . . . be taken with children, there will not be much need of the application of the common rewards and punishments. Locke.

You are too much distrustful of my truth. E. Then you must give me leave to apprehend The means and manner how. Beau. & Fl.

nce: Belonging peculiarly; peculiar; suitable; fit; proper. In its strict and appropriate meaning. Porteus. Appropriate acts of divine worship. Stillingfleet. It is not at all times easy to find words appropriate to express our ideas. Locke.

Made from, or by means of, water. An aqueous deposit. Dana. Aqueous extract, an extract obtained from a vegetable substance by steeping it in water. -- Aqueous humor (Anat.), one the humors of the eye; a limpid fluid, occupying the space between the crystalline lens and the cornea. (See Eye.) -- Aqueous rocks (Geol.),…

A suffix meaning a ruler, as in monarch (a sole ruler).

efix signifying chief, arch; as, architect, archiepiscopal. In Biol. and Anat. it usually means primitive, original, ancestral; as, archipterygium, the primitive fin or wing.

A suffix properly meaning a rule, ruling, as in monarchy, the rule of one only. Cf. -arch.

That part of moral philosophy which treats of virtue, its nature, and the means of attaining to it.

Divination by means of numbers.