Definition of antler

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Antler (n.) The entire horn, or any branch of the horn, of a cervine animal, as of a stag..

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Sambur :: Sambur (n.) An East Indian deer (Rusa Aristotelis) having a mane on its neck. Its antlers have but three prongs. Called also gerow. The name is applied to other species of the genus Rusa, as the Bornean sambur (R. equina)..
Burr :: Burr (n.) The round knob of an antler next to a deer's head.
Water Deer :: Water deer () A small Chinese deer (Hydropotes inermis). Both sexes are destitute of antlers, but the male has large, descending canine tusks..
Panter :: Panter (n.) A keeper of the pantry; a pantler.
Pearl :: Pearl (n.) One of the circle of tubercles which form the bur on a deer's antler.
Bay-antler :: Bay-antler (n.) The second tine of a stag's horn. See under Antler.
Moose :: Moose (n.) A large cervine mammal (Alces machlis, or A. Americanus), native of the Northern United States and Canada. The adult male is about as large as a horse, and has very large, palmate antlers. It closely resembles the European elk, and by many zoologists is considered the same species. See Elk..
Spittle :: Spitter (n.) A young deer whose antlers begin to shoot or become sharp; a brocket, or pricket..
Palmated :: Palmated (a.) Having the distal portion broad, flat, and more or less divided into lobes; -- said of certain corals, antlers, etc..
Antlered :: Antlered (a.) Furnished with antlers.
Attired :: Attired (p. p.) Provided with antlers, as a stag..
Branch :: Branch (n.) Any division extending like a branch; any arm or part connected with the main body of thing; ramification; as, the branch of an antler; the branch of a chandelier; a branch of a river; a branch of a railway..
Staghound :: Stag-horned (a.) Having the mandibles large and palmate, or branched somewhat like the antlers of a stag; -- said of certain beetles..
Bes-antler :: Bes-antler (n.) Same as Bez-antler.
Tres-tyne :: Tres-tyne (n.) In the antler of a stag, the third tyne above the base. This tyne appears in the third year. In those deer in which the brow tyne does not divide, the tres-tyne is the second tyne above the base. See Illust. under Rucervine, and under Rusine..
Bosset :: Bosset (n.) A rudimental antler of a young male of the red deer.
Croche :: Croche (n.) A little bud or knob at the top of a deer's antler.
High-palmed :: High-palmed (a.) Having high antlers; bearing full-grown antlers aloft.
Polled :: Polled (a.) Deprived of a poll, or of something belonging to the poll. Specifically: (a) Lopped; -- said of trees having their tops cut off. (b) Cropped; hence, bald; -- said of a person. The polled bachelor. Beau. & Fl. (c) Having cast the antlers; -- said of a stag. (d) Without horns; as, polled cattle; polled sheep..
Hartshorn :: Hartshorn (n.) The horn or antler of the hart, or male red deer..
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