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antique (iou) and kefir (iou)


antique (iou)



antique adjective, noun, & verb. . See also ANTIC. L15.
[French, or Latin antiquus, anticus, formed as ANTE-.]
A. adjective.
Having existed since old times, old, aged, venerable. L15.
Spenser A nation so antique, as that no monument remaines of her beginning. D. Dunn They have an antique goldfish, a cat called Sly.
Belonging to former times; ancient, olden. E16.
A. H. Clough The antique pure simplicity with which God and good angels communed undispleased. L. Lee The village..was like a deep-running cave still linked to its antic past. Ted Hughes Not utterly fantastical I expected (As in some antique tale depicted).
Of, belonging to, or after the manner of ancient Greece and Rome; in the style of classical antiquity. M16.
Byron And thus they form a group that's quite antique, Half naked, loving, natural, and Greek. K. Clark Virgil, that great mediator between the antique and the medieval world.
Old-fashioned, antiquated; in the style of an earlier age; archaic. M17.
Longfellow There stood the broad-wheeled wains and the antique ploughs and the harrows. C. Bront? Looking down on a fine antique street.
b. noun.
A relic of ancient Art; a relic of old times; an item of furniture, china, etc., valued by collectors because of its age. M16.
Goldsmith His own business..was to collect pictures, medals, intaglios and antiques of all kinds. K. Clark He made imitations of Graeco-Roman sculpture, one of which..was actually sold as an antique.
A person of ancient times; in pl. the ancients. M-L16.
C. verb trans.
Bind (a book) in the style of an earlier period. M18.
Make (furniture etc.) appear antique by artificial means. E20.
antiqueness noun M17.

kefir (iou)



kefir noun. Also kephir. L19.
[Caucasian name.]
An effervescent liquor resembling kumis, prepared from fermented milk and employed as a medicine or Food for invalids.
Comb.: kefir grains a composite substance used in the Caucasus to ferment milk.