Apanage (n.) Same as Appanage.
Apanthropy (n.) An aversion to the company of men; a love of solitude.
Apar (n.) Alt. of Apara
Apara (n.) See Mataco.
Aparejo (n.) A kind of pack saddle used in the American military service and among the Spanish Americans. It is made of leather stuffed with hay, moss, or the like.
Aparithmesis (n.) Enumeration of parts or particulars.
Apart (adv.) Separately, in regard to space or company; in a state of separation as to place; aside.
Apart (adv.) In a state of separation, of exclusion, or of distinction, as to purpose, use, or character, or as a matter of thought; separately; independently; as, consider the two propositions apart.
Apart (adv.) Aside; away.
Apart (adv.) In two or more parts; asunder; to piece; as, to take a piece of machinery apart.
Apartment (n.) A room in a building; a division in a house, separated from others by partitions.
Apartment (n.) A set or suite of rooms.
Apartment (n.) A compartment.
Apartness (n.) The quality of standing apart.
Apastron (n.) That point in the orbit of a double star where the smaller star is farthest from its primary.
Apathetic (a.) Alt. of Apathetical
Apathetical (a.) Void of feeling; not susceptible of deep emotion; passionless; indifferent.
Apathetically (adv.) In an apathetic manner.
Apathist (n.) One who is destitute of feeling.
Apathistical (a.) Apathetic; une motional.
Apathies (pl. ) of Apathy
Apathy (n.) Want of feeling; privation of passion, emotion, or excitement; dispassion; -- applied either to the body or the mind. As applied to the mind, it is a calmness, indolence, or state of indifference, incapable of being ruffled or roused to active interest or exertion by pleasure, pain, or passion.
Apatite (n.) Native phosphate of lime, occurring usually in six-sided prisms, color often pale green, transparent or translucent.
Apaume (n.) See Appaume.
Ape (n.) A quadrumanous mammal, esp. of the family Simiadae, having teeth of the same number and form as in man, and possessing neither a tail nor cheek pouches. The name is applied esp. to species of the genus Hylobates, and is sometimes used as a general term for all Quadrumana. The higher forms, the gorilla, chimpanzee, and ourang, are often called anthropoid apes or man apes.
Ape (n.) One who imitates servilely (in allusion to the manners of the ape); a mimic.
Ape (n.) A dupe.
Aped (imp. & p. p.) of Ape
Aping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Ape
Ape (v. t.) To mimic, as an ape imitates human actions; to imitate or follow servilely or irrationally.
Apeak (adv. & a.) In a vertical line. The anchor in apeak, when the cable has been sufficiently hove in to bring the ship over it, and the ship is them said to be hove apeak.
Apehood (n.) The state of being an ape.
Apellous (a.) Destitute of skin.
Apennine (a.) Of, pertaining to, or designating, the Apennines, a chain of mountains extending through Italy.
Apepsy (n.) Defective digestion, indigestion.
Aper (n.) One who apes.
Aperea (n.) The wild Guinea pig of Brazil (Cavia aperea).
Aperient (a.) Gently opening the bowels; laxative.
Aperient (n.) An aperient medicine or food.
Aperitive (a.) Serving to open; aperient.
Apert (a.) Open; evident; undisguised.
Apert (adv.) Openly.
Apertion (n.) The act of opening; an opening; an aperture.
Apertly (adv.) Openly; clearly.
Apertness (n.) Openness; frankness.
Aperture (n.) The act of opening.
Aperture (n.) An opening; an open space; a gap, cleft, or chasm; a passage perforated; a hole; as, an aperture in a wall.
Aperture (n.) The diameter of the exposed part of the object glass of a telescope or other optical instrument; as, a telescope of four-inch aperture.
Aperies (pl. ) of Apery
Apery (n.) A place where apes are kept.
Apery (n.) The practice of aping; an apish action.
Apetalous (a.) Having no petals, or flower leaves. [See Illust. under Anther].
Apetalousness (n.) The state of being apetalous.
Apexes (pl. ) of Apex
Apices (pl. ) of Apex
Apex (n.) The tip, top, point, or angular summit of anything; as, the apex of a mountain, spire, or cone; the apex, or tip, of a leaf.
Apex (n.) The end or edge of a vein nearest the surface.
Aphaeresis (n.) Same as Apheresis.
Aphakia (n.) An anomalous state of refraction caused by the absence of the crystalline lens, as after operations for cataract. The remedy is the use of powerful convex lenses.
Aphakial (a.) Pertaining to aphakia; as, aphakial eyes.
Aphaniptera (n. pl.) A group of wingless insects, of which the flea in the type. See Flea.
Aphanipterous (a.) Of or pertaining to the Aphaniptera.
Aphanite (n.) A very compact, dark-colored /ock, consisting of hornblende, or pyroxene, and feldspar, but neither of them in perceptible grains.
Aphanitic (a.) Resembling aphanite; having a very fine-grained structure.
Aphasia (n.) Alt. of Aphasy
Aphasy (n.) Loss of the power of speech, or of the appropriate use of words, the vocal organs remaining intact, and the intelligence being preserved. It is dependent on injury or disease of the brain.
Aphasic (a.) Pertaining to, or affected by, aphasia; speechless.
Aphelia (pl. ) of Aphelion
Aphelion (n.) That point of a planet's or comet's orbit which is most distant from the sun, the opposite point being the perihelion.
Apheliotropic (a.) Turning away from the sun; -- said of leaves, etc.
Apheliotropism (n.) The habit of bending from the sunlight; -- said of certain plants.
Aphemia (n.) Loss of the power of speaking, while retaining the power of writing; -- a disorder of cerebral origin.
Apheresis (n.) The dropping of a letter or syllable from the beginning of a word; e. g., cute for acute.
Apheresis (n.) An operation by which any part is separated from the rest.
Aphesis (n.) The loss of a short unaccented vowel at the beginning of a word; -- the result of a phonetic process; as, squire for esquire.
Aphetic (a.) Shortened by dropping a letter or a syllable from the beginning of a word; as, an aphetic word or form.
Aphetism (n.) An aphetized form of a word.
Aphetize (v. t.) To shorten by aphesis.
Aphid (n.) One of the genus Aphis; an aphidian.
Aphides (n. pl.) See Aphis.
Aphidian (a.) Of or pertaining to the family Aphidae.
Aphidian (n.) One of the aphides; an aphid.
Aphidivorous () Devouring aphides; aphidophagous.
Aphidophagous (a.) Feeding upon aphides, or plant lice, as do beetles of the family Coccinellidae.
Aphilanthropy (n.) Want of love to mankind; -- the opposite of philanthropy.
Aphides (pl. ) of Aphis
Aphis (n.) A genus of insects belonging to the order Hemiptera and family Aphidae, including numerous species known as plant lice and green flies.
Aphis lion () The larva of the lacewinged flies (Chrysopa), which feeds voraciously upon aphids. The name is also applied to the larvae of the ladybugs (Coccinella).
Aphlogistic (a.) Flameless; as, an aphlogistic lamp, in which a coil of wire is kept in a state of continued ignition by alcohol, without flame.
Aphonia (n.) Alt. of Aphony
Aphony (n.) Loss of voice or vocal utterance.
Aphonic (a.) Alt. of Aphonous
Aphonous (a.) Without voice; voiceless; nonvocal.
Aphorism (n.) A comprehensive maxim or principle expressed in a few words; a sharply defined sentence relating to abstract truth rather than to practical matters.
Aphorismatic (a.) Alt. of Aphorismic
Aphorismic (a.) Pertaining to aphorisms, or having the form of an aphorism.
Aphorismer (n.) A dealer in aphorisms.
Aphorist (n.) A writer or utterer of aphorisms.
Aphoristic (a.) Alt. of Aphoristical
Aphoristical (a.) In the form of, or of the nature of, an aphorism; in the form of short, unconnected sentences; as, an aphoristic style.