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ANTEATER , a See also:term applied to several mammals, but (zoo-logically at any See also:rate) specially indicating the tropical See also:American anteaters of the See also:family Myrmecophagidae (see See also:EDENTATA). The typical and largest representative of the See also:group is the See also:great anteater or See also:- ANT
- ANT (O. Eng. aemete, from Teutonic a, privative, and maitan, cut or bite off, i.e. " the biter off "; aemete in Middle English became differentiated in dialect use to (mete, then amte, and so ant, and also to emete, whence the synonym " emmet," now only u
ant-See also:bear (Myrmecophaga jubata) , an See also:animal measuring 4 ft. in length without the tail, and 2 ft. in height at the See also:shoulder. Its prevailing See also:colour is See also:grey, with a broad See also:black See also:band, bordered with See also:- WHITE
- WHITE, ANDREW DICKSON (1832– )
- WHITE, GILBERT (1720–1793)
- WHITE, HENRY KIRKE (1785-1806)
- WHITE, HUGH LAWSON (1773-1840)
- WHITE, JOSEPH BLANCO (1775-1841)
- WHITE, RICHARD GRANT (1822-1885)
- WHITE, ROBERT (1645-1704)
- WHITE, SIR GEORGE STUART (1835– )
- WHITE, SIR THOMAS (1492-1567)
- WHITE, SIR WILLIAM ARTHUR (1824--1891)
- WHITE, SIR WILLIAM HENRY (1845– )
- WHITE, THOMAS (1628-1698)
- WHITE, THOMAS (c. 1550-1624)
white, commencing on the See also:chest, and passing obliquely over the shoulder, diminishing gradually in breadth as it approaches the loins, where it ends in a point. It is extensively distributed in the tropical parts of See also:South and Central See also:America, frequenting See also:low swampy savannas, along the See also:banks of See also:rivers, and the depths of the humid forests, but is nowhere abundant. Its See also:food consists mainly of termites, to obtain which it opens their nests with its powerful See also:sharp anterior claws, and as the See also:insects swarm to the damaged See also:part of their dwelling, it draws them into its mouth by means of its See also:long, flexible, rapidly moving See also:tongue covered with glutinous saliva. The great anteater is terrestrial in habits, not burrowing underground like armadillos. Though generally an inoffensive animal, when attacked it can defend itself vigorously and effectively with its sabre-like anterior claws. The See also:female produces a single See also:young at a See also:birth. The tamandua anteaters, as typified by Tamandua (or Uroleptes) tetradactyla, are much smaller than the great anteater, and differ essentially from it in their habits, being mainly arboreal. They inhabit the dense primeval forests of South and Central America. The usual colour is yellowish-white, with a broad black lateral band, covering nearly the whole of the See also:side of the See also:body.
The little or two-toed anteater (See also:Cyclopes or Cycloturus didactylus) is a native of the hottest parts of South and Central America, and about the See also:size of a See also:rat, of a See also:general yellowish colour, and exclusively arboreal in its habits. The name scaly anteater is applied to the See also:pangolin (q.v.); the banded anteater (Myrmecobius fascialus) is a marsupial, and the spiny anteater (See also:Echidna) is one of the monotremes (see See also:MARSUPIALIA and See also:MONOTREMATA).
ANTE-See also:CHAPEL, the term given to that portion of a chapel which lies on the western side of the See also:choir See also:screen. In some of the colleges at See also:- OXFORD
- OXFORD, EARLS OF
- OXFORD, EDWARD DE VERE, 17TH EARL
- OXFORD, JOHN DE VERE, 13TH EARL OF (1443-1513)
- OXFORD, PROVISIONS OF
- OXFORD, ROBERT DE VERE, 9TH EARL OF (1362-1392)
- OXFORD, ROBERT HARLEY, 1ST
Oxford and See also:Cambridge the ante-chapel is carried See also:north and south across the See also:west end of the chapel, constituting a western See also:transept or See also:narthex. This See also:model, based on Merton See also:College chapel (13th See also:century), of which only See also:chancel and transept were built though a See also:nave was projected, was followed at Wadham, New and Magdalen Colleges, Oxford, in the new chapel of St See also:John's College, Cambridge, and in See also:Eton College. In Jesus College, Cambridge, the transept and a See also:short nave constitute the ante-chapel; in See also:Clare College an octagonal See also:vestibule serves the same purpose; and in See also:Christ's, Trinity and See also:Ring's Colleges, Cambridge, the ante-chapel is a portion of the See also:main chapel, divided off from the chancel by the choir screen.89
ANTE-CHOIR, the term given to the space enclosed in a See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
church between the See also:outer See also:gate or railing of the See also:rood screen and the See also:door of the screen; sometimes there is only one See also:rail, gate or door, but in See also:Westminster See also:Abbey it is equal in See also:depth to one See also:bay of the nave. The ante-choir is also called the " fore choir."
ANTE-FI%AE (from See also:Lat. antefigere, to fasten before), the See also:vertical blocks which terminate the covering tiles of the roof of a See also:Greek See also:temple; as spaced they take the See also:place of the cymatium and See also:form a cresting along the sides of the temple. The See also:face of the ante-fixae was richly carved with the See also:anthemion (q.v.) See also:ornament.
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