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  • English Word Apiked Definition Trimmed.
  • English Word Aping Definition of Ape
  • English Word Apiol Definition An oily liquid derived from parsley.
  • English Word Apiologist Definition A student of bees.
  • English Word Apis Definition A genus of insects of the order Hymenoptera, including the common honeybee (Apis mellifica) and other related species. See Honeybee.
  • English Word Apish Definition Having the qualities of an ape; prone to imitate in a servile manner. Hence: Apelike; fantastically silly; foppish; affected; trifling.
  • English Word Apishly Definition In an apish manner; with servile imitation; foppishly.
  • English Word Apishness Definition The quality of being apish; mimicry; foppery.
  • English Word Apitpat Definition With quick beating or palpitation; pitapat.
  • English Word Aplacental Definition Belonging to the Aplacentata; without placenta.
  • English Word Aplacentata Definition Mammals which have no placenta.
  • English Word Aplacophora Definition A division of Amphineura in which the body is naked or covered with slender spines or setae, but is without shelly plates.
  • English Word Aplanatic Definition Having two or more parts of different curvatures, so combined as to remove spherical aberration; -- said of a lens.
  • English Word Aplanatism Definition Freedom from spherical aberration.
  • English Word Aplastic Definition Not plastic or easily molded.
  • English Word Aplomb Definition Assurance of manner or of action; self-possession.
  • English Word Aplotomy Definition Simple incision.
  • English Word Aplustre Definition An ornamental appendage of wood at the ship's stern, usually spreading like a fan and curved like a bird's feather.
  • English Word Aplysia Definition A genus of marine mollusks of the order Tectibranchiata; the sea hare. Some of the species when disturbed throw out a deep purple liquor, which colors the water to some distance. See Illust. in Appendix.
  • English Word Apneumona Definition An order of holothurians in which the internal respiratory organs are wanting; -- called also Apoda or Apodes.
  • English Word Apnoea Definition Partial privation or suspension of breath; suffocation.
  • English Word Apo Definition A prefix from a Greek preposition. It usually signifies from, away from, off, or asunder, separate; as, in apocope (a cutting off), apostate, apostle (one sent away), apocarpous.
  • English Word Apocalypse Definition The revelation delivered to St. John, in the isle of Patmos, near the close of the first century, forming the last book of the New Testament.
  • English Word Apocalypse Definition Anything viewed as a revelation; a disclosure.
  • English Word Apocalyptic Definition Alt. of Apocalyptical
  • English Word Apocalyptic Definition Alt. of Apocalyptist
  • English Word Apocalyptical Definition Of or pertaining to a revelation, or, specifically, to the Revelation of St. John; containing, or of the nature of, a prophetic revelation.
  • English Word Apocalyptically Definition By revelation; in an apocalyptic manner.
  • English Word Apocalyptist Definition The writer of the Apocalypse.
  • English Word Apocarpous Definition Either entirely or partially separate, as the carpels of a compound pistil; -- opposed to syncarpous.