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ANTLER

Volume 2 · 63 words · 1797 Edition

among sportsmen, a start or branch of a deer's attire.

Brow-Antler, denotes the branch next the head; and,

Bes-Antler, the branch next above the brow-antler.

ANTILIA, an ancient machine, supposed to be the same with our pump. Hence the phrase in antiliam condemnari, according to the critics, denotes a kind of punishment, whereby criminals were condemned to drain ponds, ditches, or the like.