English English Dictionary
English English Dictionary
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Answer
(n.)
A counter-statement of facts in a course of pleadings; a
confutation of what the other party has alleged; a responsive
declaration by a witness in reply to a question. In Equity, it is the
usual form of defense to the complainant's charges in his bill.
Answerable
(a.)
Obliged to answer; liable to be called to account;
liable to pay, indemnify, or make good; accountable; amenable;
responsible; as, an agent is answerable to his principal; to be
answerable for a debt, or for damages.
Answerable
(a.)
Capable of being answered or refuted; admitting a
satisfactory answer.
Answerable
(a.)
Correspondent; conformable; hence, comparable.
Answerable
(a.)
Proportionate; commensurate; suitable; as, an
achievement answerable to the preparation for it.
Answerable
(a.)
Equal; equivalent; adequate.
Answerableness
(n.)
The quality of being answerable, liable,
responsible, or correspondent.
Answerably
(adv.)
In an answerable manner; in due proportion or
correspondence; suitably.
Answered
(imp. & p. p.)
of Answer
Answerer
(n.)
One who answers.
Answering
(p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Answer
Answerless
(a.)
Having no answer, or impossible to be answered.
Ant
(n.)
A hymenopterous insect of the Linnaean genus Formica, which is
now made a family of several genera; an emmet; a pismire.
See Ant bird, under Ant, n.
One of the small white egg-shaped pupae or cocoons of the
ant, often seen in or about ant-hills, and popularly supposed to be
eggs.
One of several species of tropical birds, of the Old
World, of the genus Pitta, somewhat resembling the thrushes, and
feeding chiefly on ants.
See Ant bird, under Ant.
See Anti-, prefix.
Ant-bear
(n.)
An edentate animal of tropical America (the Tamanoir),
living on ants. It belongs to the genus Myrmecophaga.
Ant-cattle
(n.)
Various kinds of plant lice or aphids tended by ants
for the sake of the honeydew which they secrete. See Aphips.