Hypertext Webster Gateway: "antidote"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Antidote \An"ti*dote\, n. [L. antidotum, Gr. ? (sc. ?), fr. ?
given against; ? against + ? to give: cf. F. antidote. See
{Dose}, n.]
1. A remedy to counteract the effects of poison, or of
anything noxious taken into the stomach; -- used with
against, for, or to; as, an antidote against, for, or to,
poison.
2. Whatever tends to prevent mischievous effects, or to
counteract evil which something else might produce.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Antidote \An"ti*dote\, v. t.
1. To counteract or prevent the effects of, by giving or
taking an antidote.
Nor could Alexander himself . . . antidote . . . the
poisonous draught, when it had once got into his
veins. --South.
2. To fortify or preserve by an antidote.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
antidote
n : a remedy that stops or controls the effects of a poison
[syn: {counterpoison}]
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