ante

I confess that, when I beheld you in the ante room, I blushed for my past forgetfulness.

By instinct, I suppose, I drifted towards my ante bellum quarters.

One (called Chipadzi's) has been already mentioned (see p. 75, ante).

If it was a bid for him to raise the ante, Morgan was starting off on a lame leg, he said.

These books contain the record kept by the Kirm-ul-Ktibn, (Ante p. 141).

The play or 'ante' to the game was fifty cents, with no limit.

Ante is the last to look at his cards, or in other words, has the last say.

If the limit be one shilling, the ante may be fixed at one penny.

C, who has the right to straddle the ante does not do so, so no other player may.

If (b) he accept his cards, he must stake a sum at least twice the amount of ante.