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Antiquary :: Antiquary (a.) Pertaining to antiquity.

Idolatrous :: Idolatrous (a.) Consisting in, or partaking of, an excessive attachment or reverence; as, an idolatrous veneration for antiquity..

Oboe :: Oboe (n.) One of the higher wind instruments in the modern orchestra, yet of great antiquity, having a penetrating pastoral quality of tone, somewhat like the clarinet in form, but more slender, and sounded by means of a double reed; a hautboy..

Antiquity :: Antiquity (n.) An old gentleman.

Argus :: Argus (n.) A fabulous being of antiquity, said to have had a hundred eyes, who has placed by Juno to guard Io. His eyes were transplanted to the peacock's tail..

Paleologist :: Paleologist (n.) One versed in paleology; a student of antiquity.

Antiquitarian :: Antiquitarian (n.) An admirer of antiquity. [Used by Milton in a disparaging sense..

Ogygian :: Ogygian (a.) Of or pertaining to Ogyges, a mythical king of ancient Attica, or to a great deluge in Attica in his days; hence, primeval; of obscure antiquity..

Trumpet :: Trumpet (n.) A wind instrument of great antiquity, much used in war and military exercises, and of great value in the orchestra. In consists of a long metallic tube, curved (once or twice) into a convenient shape, and ending in a bell. Its scale in the lower octaves is limited to the first natural harmonics; but there are modern trumpets capable, by means of valves or pistons, of producing every tone within their compass, although at the expense of the true ringing quality of tone..

Hoar :: Hoar (n.) Hoariness; antiquity.

Archaism :: Archaism (a.) Antiquity of style or use; obsoleteness.

Obliterate :: Obliterate (v. t.) To wear out; to remove or destroy utterly by any means; to render imperceptible; as. to obliterate ideas; to obliterate the monuments of antiquity.

Antiquity :: Antiquity (n.) The ancients; the people of ancient times.

Archaic :: Archaic (a.) Of or characterized by antiquity or archaism; antiquated; obsolescent.

Ancientness :: Ancientness (n.) The quality of being ancient; antiquity; existence from old times.

Antiquity :: Antiquity (n.) A relic or monument of ancient times; as, a coin, a statue, etc.; an ancient institution. [In this sense, usually in the plural.].

Light :: Light (n.) One who is conspicuous or noteworthy; a model or example; as, the lights of the age or of antiquity..

Colossus :: Colossus (n.) A statue of gigantic size. The name was especially applied to certain famous statues in antiquity, as the Colossus of Nero in Rome, the Colossus of Apollo at Rhodes..

Antiquity :: Antiquity (n.) Old age.

Eld :: Eld (n.) Old times; former days; antiquity.

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