contracted into Ant: thus, Emʹt, ent, ant (Anglo-Saxon, œmete).
“A bracelet made of emmetsʹ eyes.”
Drayton: Court of Fairies.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.