An″tic, n. 1. A buffoon or merry-andrew; one that practices odd gesticulations; the Fool of the old play.
2. An odd imagery, device, or tracery; a fantastic figure.
Woven with antics and wild imagery.
Spenser.
3. A grotesque trick; a piece of buffoonery; a caper.
And fraught with antics as the Indian bird
That writhes and chatters in her wiry cage.
Wordsworth.
4. (Arch.) A grotesque representation.
5. An antimask.
Performed by knights and ladies of his court
In nature of an antic.
Ford.