746 A N S 
Say, dod thou yet the Roman harp command ? 
Do the firings anfwer to thy noble hand i Dry den. 
To hand as oppofite or correlative to fomething elfe.—•- 
There can but two things create love, perfection and ufe- 
fulnefs; to which anfwer , on our part, 1. Admiration; 
and, 2. Defire : and both thefe are centered in love. Tay¬ 
lor .—To bear proportion to.-—Weapons mud needs be 
dangerous things, if they arfwered the bulk of fo prodigi¬ 
ous a perfon. Swift —To perform what is endeavoured or 
intended by the agent.—Our part is, to choofe out the 
mod deferving objects, and the mod likely to anfwer the 
ends of our charity; and, when this is done, all is done 
that lies in our power: the red mud be left to Providence. 
Atterbury .—To comply wi h : 
He dies that touches of this fruit, 
Till I and my affairs are anjwered. Shakefpeare. 
To fucceed ; to produce the wiihed event.—In operations 
upon bodies for their verdon or alteration, the trial in great 
quantities doth not anfwer the trial in fmall: and fo deceiv- 
eth many. Bacon .—To appear to any call or authoritative 
lummons; in which fenfe, though figuratively, the fol¬ 
lowing paflage may be, perhaps, taken.—Thou wert bet¬ 
ter in thy grave, than to anfwer with thy uncovered body 
this extremity of the Ikies. Shakefpeare .—To be over- 
againd any thing : 
Fire anfwers fire, and, by their paly beams, 
Each battle fees the other’s umber’d face. Shakefpeare. 
AnTwer, f. That which is faid, whether in fpeech 
er writing, in return to a quedion, or pofition.—How 
can we think of appearing at that tribunal, without 
being able to give a ready anfwer to the quedions which 
he fhall then put to us, about the poor and the afflift- 
cd, the hungry and the naked, tire fick and imprifon- 
ed ? Atterbury. An account to be given to the demand of 
judice. In law, a confutation of a chargeexhibited againd 
a perfon.—A perfonal anfwer ought to have three quali¬ 
ties; it ought to be pertinent to the matter in hand; it 
ought to be abfolute and unconditional; it ought to be 
clear and certain. Ayhffe. 
An'swer-jobber,/! [ from anfwer and jobber. ] He that 
makes a trade of writing anfwers.—What difguds me from 
having any thing to do with anfwer-jobbers, is, that they 
have no confidence. Swift. 
AN'SWERABLE, adj. [from anfwer .That to which a 
reply may be made ; that which may beanlwered ; as, the 
argument, though fubtle, is yet anfwer able. Obliged to 
give an account; obliged to anfwer any demand of judice; 
or (land the trial of an accufation.—Will any man argue, 
that if a phyfician fhould manifedly preferibe poilon to all 
his patients, he cannot be judly punifiied, but is anfwera- 
ble only to God ? Swift. —Correfpop.dent.—The daugh¬ 
ters of Atlas were ladies who, accompanying fuch as came 
to be regidered among the worthies, brought forth chil¬ 
dren anfwer able in quality to thofe that begot them. Ra¬ 
leigh .—Proportionate ; fuitable : 
Only add 
Deeds to thy knowledge anfwcrable ; add faith, 
Add virtue, patience, temperance; add love, 
By name to come call'd charity, the foul 
Of all the red. Milton. 
Suitable; fuited. Equal; equivalent.—There be no kings 
whofe means are anfwcrable unto other men’s defires. Ra¬ 
leigh .—Relative ; correlative.—That, to every petition 
for things needful, there fhould be Tome anfwerable fen- 
tence of thanks provided particularly to follow, is not re- 
quifite. Hooker. 
AN'SWERABLY, adv. Indueproportion ; with proper 
correfpondence ; fuitably.—'The bioader feas are, if they 
be entire, and free from iflands, they are anfwer ably deep¬ 
er. Rrerewood. 
AN'SWERABLEhlESS, f. The quality of being an¬ 
fwerable. 
ANT 
AN'SWERER,y He that anfwers; he that fpeaks in re¬ 
turn to what another has fpoken.—1 know your mind,, 
and will fatisfy it; neither will I do it like a niggardly an - 
fwerer, going no farther than the bounds of the quedion. 
Sidney .—He that manages the controverfy againd one that 
has written fird.—It is very unfair in any writer to em¬ 
ploy ignorance and malice together; becaufe it gives his 
anfwerer double work. Swift. 
ANT, in zoology. See Formica, and Termer. 
Ant-Bear, or Ant-eater , in zoology. See Myrmt- 
COFHACiA. 
Ant-Eggs, a name popularly given to a kind of little 
white balls found in the banks or neds of ants, fuppofed 
to be the ova of this infe6t. Later rraturalids, however, 
have obferved, that thefe are not properly the ants eggs, 
but the young brood themfelves in their drd date; they 
are fo many little vermiculi wrapped up in a film, or flein, 
compofed of a fort of lilk, which they fpin out of them¬ 
felves as (ilk-worms and caterpillars do. At fird they are 
hardly obferved to dir : but, after a few days continuance,, 
they exhibit a feeble motion of flexion and extendon; and 
begin to look yellowidi and hairy, dtaped like fmall mag¬ 
gots, in which lliape they grow up till they are almod as big 
as ants. When they pafs their metamorphods, and appear in. 
their proper Ihape, they have a fmall black fpeck on them, 
clofe to the anus of the inclofed ant, which M. Leeu¬ 
wenhoek probably enough imagines to be the feces void¬ 
ed by it. Thefe fuppofed ants eggs are brought up every 
morning in fummer, near the top of the bank, where they 
are lodged, all the warm part of the day, within reach of 
the fun’s influence. At night, or if it be cool, or likely to 
rain, they carry them down to a greater depth ; fo that 
you may dig a foot deep before you come at them. The 
true ants eggs are the white fubdance which, upon open¬ 
ing their banks, appears to the eye like the fcatterings of 
fine white fugar, or fait, but very foft and tender. Exa¬ 
mined by a microfcope, it is found to confift of feveral. 
pure white appearances, indiftindl membranes, all figured 
like the fmaller fort of birds eggs, and as clear as a fifh’s 
bladder. 
Ant-Hills, are little hillocks of earth, which the 
ants throw up for their habitation and the breeding of 
their young. They injure dry padures, not only by wad¬ 
ing fo much land as they cover, but by hindering the 
fey the in mowing the grafs,, and yielding a poor hungry 
food pernicious to cattle. The ufiial manner of dedroy- 
ing thefe hills is to cut them into four parts from the top, 
and then dig into them fo deep as to take out the core be¬ 
low, fo that, when the turf is laid down again, it may lie 
fomewhat lower than the level of the ground; by this 
means it will be wetter than the red of the land; and this 
w ill prevent the ants from returning to the fame place, 
which otherwife they would certainly do. The earth that 
is taken out mud be Scattered to a great didance, otherwile 
they will colledl it together and make another hill jltd by. 
The proper time for doing this is in winter. Human 
dung is a better remedy than all thefe, as is proved by 
experiment; for it will kill great numbers of them, and 
drive all the red away, if only a fmall quantity of it be put 
into their hills. A condderable reward was lately given 
to M. Tatin, at Paris, for the invention of the following 
compodtion to dedroy ants, caterpillars, &c. Take of 
black foap, of the bell quality, i|lb. flowers of fulphttr, 
i|lb. mudtrooms, of any kind, 2lb. river or rain water, 
15 gallons. Divide the water into two equal parts; pom- 
one part into a barrel, of any convenient flze, which fhould 
be uled oniy for this purpofe; let the black foap be dir- 
red in till it is didolved, and then add to it the mufh- 
rooms, after they have been nightly bruifed. Let the re¬ 
maining half of the water be made to boil in a kettle ; put 
the w'hole quantity of fitlphur into a coarfe open cloth, tied 
up, with a done or other weight, to make it fink to the 
bottom. During twenty minutes (being the time the 
boiling fiiould continue) dir it well with a dick, and let 
the packet of fitlphur be fqueezed, fo as to make it yield 
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