Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary - antler

 noun  Etymology: Middle English aunteler, from Anglo-French antiler, from Vulgar Latin *anteoculare, from neuter of anteocularis located before the eye, from Latin ante- + oculus eye — more at eye  Date: 14th century one of the paired deciduous solid bony processes that arise from the frontal bone on the head of an animal of the deer family; also a branch of an ~  • ~ed adjective  • ~less adjective