Thermantidote \Ther*man"ti*dote\, n. [Gr. ? heat + E. antidote.]
A device for circulating and cooling the air, consisting
essentially of a kind of roasting fan fitted in a window and
incased in wet tatties. [India]
Will you bring me to book on the mountains, or where
the thermantidotes play? --Kipling.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]