an outer chamber for strangers to wait in, till the person to be spoken with is at leisure.

ANTICHRONUS, in botany: A genus of the monogynia order, belonging to the octandra class; of which the essential characters are: The calyx is a four-leaved perianthium: The corolla consists of four expanding petals: The pericarpium is a capsule, above, subulated, with four cells and four valves: The seeds are very numerous. There is but one species, the depressus, a native of Arabia.