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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

ANT'LER, n. [From the root of ante, before. See Ante.]
A start or branch of a horn, especially of the horns of the cevine animals, as of the stag or moose. The branch next to the head is called the brow'antler, and the branch next above, the bes-antler.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: deciduous horn of a member of the deer family

Merriam Webster's

noun Etymology: Middle English aunteler, from Anglo-French antiler, from Vulgar Latin *anteoculare, from neuter of anteocularis located before the eye, from Latin ante- + oculus eye — more at eye Date: 14th century one of the paired deciduous solid bony processes that arise from the frontal bone on the head of an animal of the deer family; also a branch of an antler • antlered adjective • antlerless adjective

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. 1 each of the branched horns of a stag or other (usu. male) deer. 2 a branch of this. Derivatives: antlered adj. Etymology: ME f. AF, var. of OF antoillier, of unkn. orig.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Antler Ant"ler, n. [OE. auntelere, OF. antoillier, andoiller, endouiller, fr. F. andouiller, fr. an assumed LL. antocularis, fr. L. ante before + oculus eye. See Ocular.] (Zo["o]l.) The entire horn, or any branch of the horn, of a cervine animal, as of a stag. Huge stags with sixteen antlers. --Macaulay. Note: The branch next to the head is called the brow antler, and the branch next above, the bez antler, or bay antler. The main stem is the beam, and the branches are often called tynes. Antlers are deciduous bony (not horny) growths, and are covered with a periosteum while growing. See Velvet. Antler moth (Zo["o]l.), a destructive European moth (Cerapteryx graminis), which devastates grass lands.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(antlers) A male deer's antlers are the branched horns on its head. N-COUNT