Dictionary entry

Thermantidote

Webster's Dictionary 1913

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.

Will you bring me to book on the mountains, or where the thermantidotes play? Kipling.