antler

[Fr. andouiller = a brow-artler.] 1. Properly the first branch, but now used for any ramification of the horns on the head of any animal of the deer family. The lowest furcation, that nearest the head, is called the brow-antler; and the branch next above it, the bes - antler . "Huge stags with sixteen antlers."- Macaulay : Hist . Eng , ch. vii. 2. ( Pl .) The solid deciduous horns of any animal of the deer family. "Richardson figures a pair of antlers of the wild reindeer with twenty-nine points."-Darwin: Descent of Man, pt. ii., ch. xvii. 3. A moth, the Chareas or Cerapteryx gram in is. It is of the family Noctuide. It is ANTLER MOTH. of a brown colour, with a white line on the upper wings, and a row of black marks at the The caterpillar, which is apex of each. brown with yellow streaks, feeds on gra . It occurs in England, but not abundantly.