Brewer's: Emmet

contracted into Ant thus, Em't, ent, ant (Anglo-Saxon, æmete).

“A bracelet made of emmets' eyes.”

Drayton:Court of Fairies.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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