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 ANT ANT (3 25 ) to the ardic or northern pole. Hence, anikin or membrane, wideft at the apex, and full of fraall oppofite circle is one of the leifer circles of the fphere, holes like a fieve; the toes of the feet are conne&ed tardic diftant only 23°’30/ from the fouth pole, which by a membrane which enables them to fwim; the tibia, and is likewife called antardic for the fame reafon. or Ihin-bone, is fhort and flat. They live upon wa- ANTARES, a ftar of the firft magnitude, .otherwile ter-plants, fiflies, i&f. This order includes 12 genera, viz. the ana's, mergus, phaeton, plotus, rhyncops, called thefcorpion's heart. See Scorpion. dromeda, alca, procellaria, pelecanus, larus, fterna, ANTE', in heraldry, denotes that the pieces are let inanother in fuch form as is there exprefled; as, and columbus. See thefe articles, and Natural toforoneinftance, by dove-tails, rounds, fwallow-tails, of History. Anser, in aftronomy, a ftar of the fifth or fixth mag- the like. nitude, in the milky-way, between the fwan and eagle. ANTEAMBULONES, in Roman antiquity, fervar.ts ANSES, in aftronomy, the fame with anfas. See Ansa;. who went before perfons of diftindion to clear the ANSI AN ACTE S, a people of Africa, in the weftern way before them. They ufed this formula. Date locum domino meo, i. e. Make room, or way, for my part of the ifle of Madagafcar. ANSLO, a fea-port town of Norway, and province of mafter. Aggerhuys, fituated in io° 12' E. long, and 59° 3c/ ANTECEDENT, in general, fomething that goes before another, either in order of time or place. N. lat. ANSPACH, orOHNSPACH, a city of Germany, and Antecedent, in grammar, the word to which a relative refers. circle 0 of Franconia, fituated in io° 36' E. long, and Antecedent, in logic, is the firft: of the two propofi49 22' N. lat. It is the capital of the marquifate of Anfpach, of tions in an eqthymema. Antecedent, in mathematics, is the firft of two which family was the late queen Caroline. of a ratio, or that which is compared with the AJMSPESSADES, in the French armies, a kind of infe- terms rior olficer in the foot, below the corporals, but above other. in medicine, fuch as are obfervei the common centinels. ; There are ufually four or five Antecedent of them in a company. . before a diftemper is fo formed as to be reducible to ANSTRUTHER Eajier zn&WeJler, two royal burghs any particular clafs. of. Scotland fituated on the fouth-eaft coaft of the ANTECEDENCE, in aftronomy, an apparent motion county of- Fife, in 20 ,25' W. long, and 56° 20 of a planet towards the weft, or contrary to the order of the figns. N. lat. ANT, in zoology. See Formica. ANTECESSOR, one that goes before. It was an apANTA, in the ancient architedure, a fquare pilafter, pellation given to thofe who excelled in any fcience: placed at the corners of buildings. Juftinian applied it particularly to profeflbrs of civil Anta, in geopraphy, a little city with a* harbour, on law; and, in the univerfities of France, the teachers of law take the,title antecejforcs in all their thefes. the coaft of Guinea in Africa. ANTACHATES, in .natural hiftory, a bituminous ANTECURSORES, in the Roman armies, a party of ftone, which yields a fmell like myrrh, in burning: horfe detached before, partly to get intelligence, proANTACIDS, in pharmacy, an appellation given to all vifions, <&c. and partly to chufe a proper place to enmedicines proper to corred acid or four humours: camp in. Thefe were otherwife called antecejjores, Such are the abforbent and obtundent clafles,' &c. and by the Greeks prodromi. ANTAGONIST, denotes an adverfary, efpecially in ANTEDATE, among lawyers, a fpurious of falfe date, fpeaking of combats and games. prior to the true date of a bond, bill, or the like. Antagonist tnufcJet, in anatomy, thofe which have ANTEDILUVIAN, whatever exifted before Noah’s oppofite fundions, as -flexors and extenfors, abduc- flood: Thus, the generations from Adam to Noah tors and addudors.,-^., are called the aoitediluvians. See Deluge. ANTALIS, in zoology, the trivial name of a fpecies of ANTEGO, one of the Caribbee iflands, in the Atlantic . thedentalium. See Dentalium. or American ocean, fituated in 62° W. long. . and ANTALGICS, in medicine, the fame with anodynes. 170 30' N. lat. It is about 20 miles long, and as See Anodyne. many broad. -ANTANACLASIS, in rhetoric, a figure whidr re- •ANTEJURAMENTUM, by our anceftors called jupeats the fame word, but in a different fenfe; as, dui?i ramentum calumnix, an oath which anciently both vivinius, vivamus. accufer and accufed were to take before any trial or ANTANAGOGE, in rhetoric, a figure by which, when purgation. the accufation of the adverfary is unanfwerabkj we The accufer was to fwear that he would prcfecute load him with the fame or other crimes. the criminal; and the accufed to make oath, on the ANTANISOPHYLLUM, in 'botany, a fynonime of day he was to undergo the ordeal, that he was innoa fpecies of Boerhaavia. See Boerhaavia. cent of the crime charged againft him. ANTAPHRODISIACS, in pharmacy, medicines pro- ANTELOPE, in zoology. See Capra. per to diminiflr the femen, and confcquently extinguilh ANTEMURALE, in the ancient military ar.t, denotes or leften all defires of yenery. much the fame with what the moderns call an c«rANTARCTIC, in a general fenfe, denotes fortiething •work, Vol. I. No, 14. 3 4N ' ANTEN-