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||An`ti*tro*chan"ter (&?;), n. (Anat.) An articular surface on the ilium of birds against which the great trochanter of the femur plays.

{ An*tit"ro*pal (&?;), An*tit"ro*pous (&?;), } a. [Pref. anti- + Gr. &?; turn, &?; to turn.] (Bot.) At the extremity most remote from the hilum, as the embryo, or inverted with respect to the seed, as the radicle. Lindley.

An"ti*ty`pal (&?;), a. Antitypical. [R.]

An"ti*type (-tp), n. [Gr. &?; of corresponding form; &?; against + &?; type, figure. See Type.] That of which the type is the pattern or representation; that which is represented by the type or symbol.

An`ti*typ"ic*al (&?;), a. Of or pertaining to an antitype; explaining the type. -- An`ti*typ"ic*al*ly, adv.

An*tit"y*pous (&?;), a. [Gr. &?;.] Resisting blows; hard. [Obs.] Cudworth.

An*tit"y*py (&?;), n. [Gr. &?;.] Opposition or resistance of matter to force. [R.] Sir W. Hamilton.

An`ti*vac`ci*na"tion (&?;), n. Opposition to vaccination. London Times.

An`ti*vac`ci*na"tion*ist, n. An antivaccinist.

An`ti*vac"ci*nist, n. One opposed to vaccination.

An`ti*va*ri"o*lous (&?;), a. Preventing the contagion of smallpox.

An`ti*ve*ne"re*al (&?;), a. Good against venereal poison; antisyphilitic.

An`ti*viv`i*sec"tion (&?;), n. Opposition to vivisection.

An`ti*viv`i*sec"tion*ist, n. One opposed to vivisection

An`ti*zym"ic (&?;), a. Preventing fermentation.

An`ti*zy*mot"ic (&?;), a. (Med.) Preventing fermentation or decomposition. -- n. An agent so used.

Ant"ler (&?;), n. [OE. auntelere, OF. antoillier, andoiller, endouiller, fr. F. andouiller, fr. an assumed LL. antocularis, fr. L. ante before + oculus eye. See Ocular.] (Zoöl.) The entire horn, or any branch of the horn, of a cervine animal, as of a stag.

Huge stags with sixteen antlers. Macaulay.

The branch next to the head is called the brow antler, and the branch next above, the bez antler, or bay antler. The main stem is the beam, and the branches are often called tynes. Antlers are deciduous bony (not horny) growths, and are covered with a periosteum while growing. See Velvet.

Antler moth (Zoöl.), a destructive European moth (Cerapteryx graminis), which devastates grass lands.

Ant"lered (&?;), a. Furnished with antlers.

The antlered stag. Cowper.

||Ant"li*a (&?;), n.; pl. Antilæ (&?;). [L., a pump, Gr, &?; hold of a ship] (Zoöl.) The spiral tubular proboscis of lepidopterous insects. See Lepidoptera.

Ant"-li`on (&?;), n. (Zoöl.) A neuropterous insect, the larva of which makes in the sand a pitfall to capture ants, etc. The common American species is Myrmeleon obsoletus, the European is M. formicarius.

||An*tœ"ci (n*t"s), An*tœ"cians (-shanz), n. pl. [NL. antoeci, fr. Gr. pl. 'a`ntoiki; 'anti` opposite + o'ikei^n to live.] Those who live under the same meridian, but on opposite parallels of latitude, north and south of the equator.

||An`to*no*ma"si*a (?; 277), n. [L., fr. Gr. &?;, fr. &?; to name instead; &?; + &?; to name, &?; name.] (Rhet.) The use of some epithet or the name of some office, dignity, or the like, instead of the proper name of the person; as when his majesty is used for a king, or when, instead of Aristotle, we say, the philosopher; or, conversely, the use of a proper name instead of an appellative, as when a wise man is called a Solomon, or an eminent orator a Cicero.

An`to*no*mas"tic (&?;), a. Pertaining to, or characterized by, antonomasia. -- An`to*no*mas"tic*al*ly (&?;), adv.

An*ton"o*ma*sy (&?;), n. Antonomasia.