poet. [a. Fr. antre:—L. antrum, a. Gr. ἄντρον cave.] A cave, a cavern.
1604. Shaks., Oth., I. iii. 140. Antars vast, and Desarts idle.
1818. Keats, Endym., II. 231. Out-shooting … like a meteor-star, Through a vast antre.
1879. G. Meredith, Egoist, II. v. 109. She … shunned his house as the antre of an ogre.
