antrimolite

Shakesp.: Othello , 1. 3. [Named from Antrim, in Ireland, where it is found; suffix- ite = Gr. λίθος ( lithos ) = a stone.] A variety of Mesolite. Its hardne is 35-4; its sp. gr., 2-096. ăn-trŭm, s. [Lat. = a cave.] 1. Anat . A term used for several parts of the body which have a cave-like appearance. Thus antrum pylori is the great concavity of the stomach approaching the pylorus; antrum buccinosum is the cochlea of the ear, and antrum genæ is the maxillary sinus. 2. Bot . A name given by Mænch to the kind of fruit called by Lindley Pomum , an apple or pome. ( Lindley : Introd. to Botany .) A'-nû, s. [A yrian.] A yrian Myth. The first great deity of the upper Triad: Anu Heaven; Elu or Bel = Earth; and Hea Hades. The Accadians regarded him as the spirit or fetish of heaven; while the A yrians elevated him to the high position of the Greek Zeus or the Latin Jupiter (Boscawen: quoted in Mr. W. R. Cooper's Archaic Dict ., 1876.) A-nu'-bis, s. [Old Coptic (?).] 1. An Egyptian god represented with the head of a dog, or rather of a jackal. Mr. Cooper describes him as the chief deity presiding over the mummied or other dead. 'The brutish gods of Nile as fast, Isis, and Orus, and the dog Anubis haste." Milton: Odes, i. 2. Zool. Anubis zerda , the Sabora of the Arabs, and the Mega lot is famelicus of naturalists, is a fennec found in Kordofan, and believed by Profe or Krætschmer to be the animal taken for a jackal on Egyptian temples and on the catacombs of Thebes. (Jardine: Naturalist's Library , vol. iv. (Dogs), p. 235.)