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Antlered

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ant·ler  (ntlr)
n.
One of a pair of hornlike, bony, deciduous growths, usually elongated and branched, on the head of a deer, moose, elk, caribou, or other member of the deer family.
[Middle English aunteler, from Old French antoillier, from Vulgar Latin *antoculre, anteoculre : Latin ante-, ante- + Latin oculris, of the eye; see ocular.]
antlered adj.
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antler
top to bottom: roe deer, elk, and moose antlers
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Adj.1.Antlered - having antlersantlered - having antlers                      
horned - having a horn or horns or hornlike parts or horns of a particular kind; "horned viper"; "great horned owl"; "the unicorn--a mythical horned beast"; "long-horned cattle"
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Few are the foreheads which like Shakespeare's or Melancthon's rise so high, and descend so low, that the eyes themselves seem clear, eternal, tideless mountain lakes; and all above them in the forehead's wrinkles, you seem to track the antlered thoughts descending there to drink, as the Highland hunters track the snow prints of the deer.
Moby Dick LXVIII-CXXXIV by Melville, Herman View in context
The antlered head was again hung over the mantle-piece in the hall, and the sofas were untied and placed in the reception parlors.
The Marvelous Land of Oz by Baum, L. Frank View in context
was the next question, and Dorothy's eye rested on an antlered head hanging on the wall just over the fireplace, and caught its lips in the act of moving.
Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz by Baum, L. Frank View in context
 
 
 
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