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Answer
v. i.
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To render account, or to be responsible; to be accountable; to make amends; as, the man must answer to his employer for the money intrusted to his care.
Answer
v. i.
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To be or act in return.
Answer
v. i.
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To be or act by way of compliance, fulfillment, reciprocation, or satisfaction; to serve the purpose; as, gypsum answers as a manure on some soils.
Answer
v. i.
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To be opposite, or to act in opposition.
Answer
v. i.
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To be or act as an equivalent, or as adequate or sufficient; as, a very few will answer.
Answer
v. i.
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To be or act in conformity, or by way of accommodation, correspondence, relation, or proportion; to conform; to correspond; to suit; -- usually with to.
Answer
n.
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A reply to a change; a defense.
Answer
n.
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Something said or written in reply to a question, a call, an argument, an address, or the like; a reply.
Answer
n.
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Something done in return for, or in consequence of, something else; a responsive action.
Answer
n.
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A solution, the result of a mathematical operation; as, the answer to a problem.
Answer
n.
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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.
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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.
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Capable of being answered or refuted; admitting a satisfactory answer.
Answerable
a.
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Correspondent; conformable; hence, comparable.
Answerable
a.
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Proportionate; commensurate; suitable; as, an achievement answerable to the preparation for it.
Answerable
a.
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Equal; equivalent; adequate.
Answerableness
n.
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The quality of being answerable, liable, responsible, or correspondent.
Answerably
adv.
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In an answerable manner; in due proportion or correspondence; suitably.
Answerer
n.
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One who answers.
Answerless
a.
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Having no answer, or impossible to be answered.
An 't
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An it, that is, and it or if it. See An, conj.
An't
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A contraction for are and am not; also used for is not; -- now usually written ain't.
Ant-
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See Anti-, prefix.
-ant
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A suffix sometimes marking the agent for action; as, merchant, covenant, servant, pleasant, etc. Cf. -ent.
Ant
n.
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A hymenopterous insect of the Linnaean genus Formica, which is now made a family of several genera; an emmet; a pismire.
Antae
pl.
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of Anta
Anta
n.
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A species of pier produced by thickening a wall at its termination, treated architecturally as a pilaster, with capital and base.
Antacid
n.
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A remedy for acidity of the stomach, as an alkali or absorbent.
Antacid
a.
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Counteractive of acidity.
Antacrid
a.
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Corrective of acrimony of the humors.