Answer (v. i.) To be or act as an equivalent, or as adequate or sufficient; as, a very few will answer.
Answer (v. i.) To be or act in conformity, or by way of accommodation, correspondence, relation, or proportion; to conform; to correspond; to suit; -- usually with to.
Answer (n.) A reply to a change; a defense.
Answer (n.) Something said or written in reply to a question, a call, an argument, an address, or the like; a reply.
Answer (n.) Something done in return for, or in consequence of, something else; a responsive action.
Answer (n.) A solution, the result of a mathematical operation; as, the answer to a problem.
Answer (n.) A counter-statement of facts in a course of pleadings; a confutation of what the other party has alleged; a responsive declaration by a witness in reply to a question. In Equity, it is the usual form of defense to the complainant's charges in his bill.
Answerable (a.) Obliged to answer; liable to be called to account; liable to pay, indemnify, or make good; accountable; amenable; responsible; as, an agent is answerable to his principal; to be answerable for a debt, or for damages.
Answerable (a.) Capable of being answered or refuted; admitting a satisfactory answer.
Answerable (a.) Correspondent; conformable; hence, comparable.
Answerable (a.) Proportionate; commensurate; suitable; as, an achievement answerable to the preparation for it.
Answerable (a.) Equal; equivalent; adequate.
Answerableness (n.) The quality of being answerable, liable, responsible, or correspondent.
Answerably (adv.) In an answerable manner; in due proportion or correspondence; suitably.
Answerer (n.) One who answers.
Answerless (a.) Having no answer, or impossible to be answered.
An 't () An it, that is, and it or if it. See An, conj.
An't () A contraction for are and am not; also used for is not; -- now usually written ain't.
Ant- () See Anti-, prefix.
-ant () A suffix sometimes marking the agent for action; as, merchant, covenant, servant, pleasant, etc. Cf. -ent.
Ant (n.) A hymenopterous insect of the Linnaean genus Formica, which is now made a family of several genera; an emmet; a pismire.
Antae (pl. ) of Anta
Anta (n.) A species of pier produced by thickening a wall at its termination, treated architecturally as a pilaster, with capital and base.
Antacid (n.) A remedy for acidity of the stomach, as an alkali or absorbent.
Antacid (a.) Counteractive of acidity.
Antacrid (a.) Corrective of acrimony of the humors.
Antaean (a.) Pertaining to Antaeus, a giant athlete slain by Hercules.
Antagonism (n.) Opposition of action; counteraction or contrariety of things or principles.
Antagonist (n.) One who contends with another, especially in combat; an adversary; an opponent.
Antagonist (n.) A muscle which acts in opposition to another; as a flexor, which bends a part, is the antagonist of an extensor, which extends it.
Antagonist (n.) A medicine which opposes the action of another medicine or of a poison when absorbed into the blood or tissues.
Antagonist (a.) Antagonistic; opposing; counteracting; as, antagonist schools of philosophy.
Antagonistic (a.) Alt. of Antagonistical
Antagonistical (a.) Opposing in combat, combating; contending or acting against; as, antagonistic forces.
Antagonized (imp. & p. p.) of Antagonize
Antagonozing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Antagonize
Antagonize (v. t.) To contend with; to oppose actively; to counteract.
Antagonize (v. i.) To act in opposition.
Antagony (n.) Contest; opposition; antagonism.
Antalgic (a.) Alleviating pain.
Antalgic (n.) A medicine to alleviate pain; an anodyne.
Antalkali (n.) Alt. of Antalkaline
Antalkaline (n.) Anything that neutralizes, or that counteracts an alkaline tendency in the system.
Antalkaline (a.) Of power to counteract alkalies.
Antambulacral (a.) Away from the ambulacral region.
Antanaclasis (n.) A figure which consists in repeating the same word in a different sense; as, Learn some craft when young, that when old you may live without craft.
Antanaclasis (n.) A repetition of words beginning a sentence, after a long parenthesis; as, Shall that heart (which not only feels them, but which has all motions of life placed in them), shall that heart, etc.
Antanagoge (n.) A figure which consists in answering the charge of an adversary, by a counter charge.
Antaphrodisiac (a.) Capable of blunting the venereal appetite.
Antaphrodisiac (n.) Anything that quells the venereal appetite.
Antaphroditic (a.) Antaphrodisiac.
Antaphroditic (a.) Antisyphilitic.
Antaphroditic (n.) An antaphroditic medicine.
Antapoplectic (a.) Good against apoplexy.
Antapoplectic (n.) A medicine used against apoplexy.
Antarchism (n.) Opposition to government in general.
Antarchist (n.) One who opposes all government.
Antarchistic (a.) Alt. of Antarchistical
Antarchistical (a.) Opposed to all human government.
Antarctic (a.) 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 23¡ 28/. Thus we say the antarctic pole, circle, ocean, region, current, etc.
Antares (n.) The principal star in Scorpio: -- called also the Scorpion's Heart.
Antarthritic (a.) Counteracting or alleviating gout.
Antarthritic (n.) A remedy against gout.
Antasthmatic (a.) Opposing, or fitted to relieve, asthma.
Antasthmatic (n.) A remedy for asthma.
Ant-bear (n.) An edentate animal of tropical America (the Tamanoir), living on ants. It belongs to the genus Myrmecophaga.
Ant bird () See Ant bird, under Ant, n.
Ant-cattle (n.) Various kinds of plant lice or aphids tended by ants for the sake of the honeydew which they secrete. See Aphips.
Ante- () A Latin preposition and prefix; akin to Gr. 'anti`, Skr. anti, Goth. and-, anda- (only in comp.), AS. and-, ond-, (only in comp.: cf. Answer, Along), G. ant-, ent- (in comp.). The Latin ante is generally used in the sense of before, in regard to position, order, or time, and the Gr. 'anti` in that of opposite, or in the place of.
Ante (n.) Each player's stake, which is put into the pool before (ante) the game begins.
Ante (v. t. & i.) To put up (an ante).
Anteact (n.) A preceding act.
Anteal (a.) Being before, or in front.
Ant-eater (n.) One of several species of edentates and monotremes that feed upon ants. See Ant-bear, Pangolin, Aard-vark, and Echidna.
Antecedaneous (a.) Antecedent; preceding in time.
Antecede (v. t. & i.) To go before in time or place; to precede; to surpass.
Antecedence (n.) The act or state of going before in time; precedence.
Antecedence (n.) An apparent motion of a planet toward the west; retrogradation.
Antecedency (n.) The state or condition of being antecedent; priority.
Antecedent (a.) Going before in time; prior; anterior; preceding; as, an event antecedent to the Deluge; an antecedent cause.
Antecedent (a.) Presumptive; as, an antecedent improbability.
Antecedent (n.) That which goes before in time; that which precedes.
Antecedent (n.) One who precedes or goes in front.
Antecedent (n.) The earlier events of one's life; previous principles, conduct, course, history.
Antecedent (n.) The noun to which a relative refers; as, in the sentence "Solomon was the prince who built the temple," prince is the antecedent of who.
Antecedent (n.) The first or conditional part of a hypothetical proposition; as, If the earth is fixed, the sun must move.
Antecedent (n.) The first of the two propositions which constitute an enthymeme or contracted syllogism; as, Every man is mortal; therefore the king must die.
Antecedent (n.) The first of the two terms of a ratio; the first or third of the four terms of a proportion. In the ratio a:b, a is the antecedent, and b the consequent.
Antecedently (adv.) Previously; before in time; at a time preceding; as, antecedently to conversion.
Antecessor (n.) One who goes before; a predecessor.
Antecessor (n.) An ancestor; a progenitor.
Antechamber (n.) A chamber or apartment before the chief apartment and leading into it, in which persons wait for audience; an outer chamber. See Lobby.
Antechamber (n.) A space viewed as the outer chamber or the entrance to an interior part.
Antechapel (n.) The outer part of the west end of a collegiate or other chapel.
Antecians (n. pl.) See Ant/cians.
Antecommunion (n.) A name given to that part of the Anglican liturgy for the communion, which precedes the consecration of the elements.
Antecursor (n.) A forerunner; a precursor.
Antedate (n.) Prior date; a date antecedent to another which is the actual date.
Antedate (n.) Anticipation.
Antedated (imp. & p. p.) of Antedate