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thermantidote
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thermantidote, n. [Gr. heat + E. antidote.].
A device for circulating and cooling the air, consisting essentially of a kind of roasting fan fitted in a window and incased in wet tatties.
"Will you bring me to book on the mountains, or where the thermantidotes play?" [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
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