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• Ant

  (Heb. nemalah, from a word meaning to creep, cut off, destroy), referred to in Prov. 6:6; 30:25, as ...

  Easton's Bible Dictionary

• an't

  A common abbreviation in colloquial language for am not and are not. It is often improperly used for...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• Ant

  (Heb. nemalah). This insect is mentioned twice in the Old Testament: in (Proverbs 6:6; 30:25) In th...

  William Smith's Bible Dictionary

• -ant

  ·- A suffix sometimes marking the agent for action; as, merchant, covenant, servant, pleasant, ·etc....

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• Ant

  ·noun A hymenopterous insect of the Linnaean genus Formica, which is now made a family of several ge...

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• Ant-

  ·- ·see Anti-, ·pref. ...

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• Ant bird

  ·- ·see Ant bird, under Ant, ·noun. ...

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• Ant cow

  ·add. ·- Any aphid from which ants obtain honeydew. ...

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• Ant egg

  ·- One of the small white egg-shaped pupae or cocoons of the ant, often seen in or about ant-hills, ...

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• Ant thrush

  ·- ·see Ant bird, under <<Ant>>. II. Ant thrush ·- One of several species of tropical birds, of the...

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• Ant-bear

  ·noun An edentate animal of tropical America (the Tamanoir), living on ants. It belongs to the genus...

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• Ant-cattle

  ·noun Various kinds of plant lice or aphids tended by ants for the sake of the honeydew which they s...

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• Ant-eater

  ·noun One of several species of edentates and monotremes that feed upon ants. ·see Ant-bear, <<Pango...

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• Ant-hill

  ·noun A mound thrown up by ants or by termites in forming their nests. ...

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• Ant-lion

  ·noun A neuropterous insect, the larva of which makes in the sand a pitfall to capture ants, ·etc. T...

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• Sauba ant

  ·- A South American ant (Oecodoma cephalotes) remarkable for having two large kinds of workers besid...

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• ant-eater

  n. 1) i.q. Ant-eating-Porcupine. See echidna. 2) The Banded Ant-eater (q.v.). ...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• ant-orchis

  n. an Australian and Tasmanianorchid, Chiloglottis gunnii, Lind. ...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• bull-ant

  n. contracted and common form of the words bull-dog ant (q.v.). ...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• honey-ant

  n. name given to various species of Ants,in which the body of certain individuals becomes enormousl...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• sugar-ant

  n. a small ant, known in many partsof Australia by this name because of its fondness for sweetthing...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• ant islands

  Generally found on Spanish charts as Hormigas. ...

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• ant-eater, banded

  See banded ant-eater. ...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• banded ant-eater

  n. name given to a smallterrestrial and ant-eating marsupial, Myrmecobiusfasciatus, Waterh, found i...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• bull-dog ant

  n. (frequently shortened to Bull-dog or Bull-ant) an ant of large size witha fierce bite. The name...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• green-tree ant

  n. common Queensland Ant. 1847. L. Leichhardt, `Overland Expedition,' p. 294: «It was at the lowe...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• porcupine, ant-eating

  i.q. echidna (q.v.). ...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• porcupine-grass ant

  n. popular name given to Hypoclinea flavipes, Kirby, an ant making its nest roundthe root of the Po...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris