Anti-Rent Party
a party which gained some political influence in New York, and which had its origin in the refusal of tenants, who were dissatisfied with the patroon system in vogue in 1839, to pay rent. The matter was settled by compromise in 1850.
ANTIRRHINUM (an-ti-rīnum), a genus of annual or perennial plants of the natural order scrophulariaceæ, commonly known as snapdragon, on account of the peculiarity of the blossoms, which, by pressing between the finger and thumb, may be made to open and shut like a mouth. They all produce showy flowers, and are much cultivated in gardens. Many varieties of some of them, such as the great or common snapdragon (A. majus), have been produced by gardeners.