| Antidote | n. [ L. antidotum, Gr. 'anti`doton (sc. fa`rmakon), fr. 'anti`dotos given against; 'anti` against + dido`nai to give: cf. F. antidote. See Dose, n. ] 1. A remedy to counteract the effects of poison, or of anything noxious taken into the stomach; -- used with against, for, or to; as, an antidote against, for, or to, poison. [ 1913 Webster ] 2. Whatever tends to prevent mischievous effects, or to counteract evil which something else might produce. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Antidote | v. t. 1. To counteract or prevent the effects of, by giving or taking an antidote. [ 1913 Webster ] Nor could Alexander himself . . . antidote . . . the poisonous draught, when it had once got into his veins. South. [ 1913 Webster ] 2. To fortify or preserve by an antidote. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Thermantidote | n. [ Gr. &unr_; heat + E. antidote. ] A device for circulating and cooling the air, consisting essentially of a kind of roasting fan fitted in a window and incased in wet tatties. [ India ] Will you bring me to book on the mountains, or where the thermantidotes play? Kipling. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ] |
