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and fay*, I eat; cannibals. The practice 

 is called anthropophagy. 



ANTHROPOS'COPY, from at8{wrof , man, 

 and e-xoTiu, I view. The art of judging 

 or discovering man's character, disposi- 

 sition, passions, and inclinations, from 

 the lineaments of his body; in which 

 sense physiognomy is a branch of anthro- 

 poscopy. 



ANTHYL'IIS, the kidney-retch a genus 

 of 20 species, mostly natives of Europe. 

 Diadelphia Decandria. Name from ZiQof, 

 a flower, and tovt.of, a beard, or down, 

 from the downy calyces. The A. vvlneraria 

 is sometimes provincially called Lady's- 

 fingers, from the form of the flower heads. 



ANTHYPOCO.S'DRIAC, from avri-i><ro%ov- 

 jttaxof, not-hypochondriac. Applied to 

 medicines used against hypochondriasis. 



ANTHYPOFH'ORA, from avri, and hypo- 

 prtora (q.v.). A rhetorical figure, which 

 consists in refuting an objection by the 

 opposition of a contrary sentence. 



ANTHYSTER'IC, from T/, against, and 

 utr-nea, the womb. Counteracting hys- 

 teria. 



ANTIBAC'CHCS, Lat. from n-n and potx- 

 xiios, a foot of one short and two long 

 syllables. In poetry, a foot of three syl- 

 lables, first two long, and the last short, 

 e. g. amb're. 



AN'TIC, old; usually written antique. In 

 architecture, antics are fancies having no 

 foundation in nature, as sphinxes, cen- 

 taurs, syrens ; representation of different 

 sorts of flowers growing on the same 

 stem ; grotesque ornaments of all kinds, 

 as lions and pards with acanthus tails, or 

 other tails than their own proper ones ; 

 human forms with similar ridiculous ap- 

 pendages. 



ANTICACHEC'TIC, from clvri, against, and 

 xa%txTtxof, of a bad habit of body. Sub- 

 stantively, applied to medicines used to 

 cure a bad habit of the constitution. 



ANTiCAR.'DicM,Lat. from atvrt, opposite, 

 and xotfita,, the heart. The pit of the 

 stomach, or scrobiculus cordis. 



ANTICAI-SOT'IC, from ivT<, against, and 

 xetvfaf , burning fever. Applied to anti- 

 febrile medicines. 



AS'TICHRIST, from VT/, against, and 

 Christ. Among ecclesiastics, a great ad- 

 versarv of Christianity, who is to appear 

 upon the earth towards the end of the 

 world. Some place his capital at Con- 

 stantinople ; others at Jerusalem ; others 

 at Moscow; a few at London; and the 

 generality at Rome. 



ANTKH'RONisM.from oc.tr i, against, and 

 Xfovoe, time. Deviation from the right 

 order, or account of time. 



ANTICIPATION. In mtute, the obstruc- 



tion of a chord upon a syncopated nole, 

 to which it forms a discord. 



ANTICLI'MAX, from alrrt, against, and 

 xXtu&l, gradation. A sentence in which 

 the ideas become less important towards 

 the close ; opposed to climax, as 

 " Next comes Dalhousie.the great god of war, 



Lieutenant-Col'nel to the Earl of Mar." 



ANTICLINAL, Gr. from r/, against, and 

 xXivuv. to incline. If a range of hills, or 

 a valley, be composed of strata, which on 

 the two sides dip in opposite directions, 

 the imaginary line that lies between them, 

 towards which the strata on each rise, is 

 called the anticlinal axis. In a row of 

 houses, with steep roofs, facing the south, 

 the slates represent inclined strata dip- 

 ping north and south, and the ridge is an 

 c-ast and west anticlinal axis. The term 

 anticlinal is opposed to synclinal. 



ANTICOSMET'IC, Gr. from VTV, against, 

 and xaruos , order, beauty. Destructive 

 or injurious to beauty. Substantively, 

 any preparation which injures beauty. 



ANTIDES'MA, the Chinese-laurel: a genus 

 of East Indian shrubaceous plants. Diae- 

 cia Pentandria. Name atri, against, and 

 oio-tAct, a bandage; the leaves being re- 

 garded as an antidote to the bite of ser- 

 pents. 



ASTIDOTA'RIUM, the old name, 1. for a 



dispensatory. 2. For a book containing 



directions for preparing medicines, or 

 antidotes. 



ANTIENXEAHE'DRAL, from <*vr), oppo- 

 site, iwia., nine, and s'J^a, side. A term 

 used in crystallosraphy, to denote that 

 the crystal has nine faces on two opposite 

 sides. 



ANTIGCG'GLER, ) from anti and gvgglt. 



AxTioroLER, ) A small metallic si- 

 phon, which is inserted into the mouths 

 of casks, or large bottles, called carboys, 

 for drawing off the liquor without dis- 

 turbing the sediment, or making any 

 guggling noise. 



ANTILOG'ARITHM, from anti, against, 

 and logarithm. The complement of the 

 logarithm of a sine, tangent, or secant; 

 or" the difference of that logarithm from 

 the logarithm of 90 degrees. 



AN'TILOPE, a numerous genus of rumi- 

 nant mammalia, usually divided accord- 

 ing to the form of the horns, the nucleus 

 of which is bony, without pores or si- 

 nuses, like the antlers of the stag. The 

 most remarkable species are the gazelle, 

 tpringboc, pliuiging-antelope, rock-springer, 

 algazel, chamoit, gnu, and nylgau. The 

 name is corrupted from antholopt, from 

 v0, a flower, andri/,aneye. Flowery- 

 eyed or beautiful- eyed ; the beauty of the 

 eye in the animal of this genus being pro- 

 verbial, especially in oriental countrie* 



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