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  • English Word Apriorism Definition An a priori principle.
  • English Word Apriority Definition The quality of being innate in the mind, or prior to experience; a priori reasoning.
  • English Word Aprocta Definition A group of Turbellaria in which there is no anal aperture.
  • English Word Aproctous Definition Without an anal office.
  • English Word Apron Definition An article of dress, of cloth, leather, or other stuff, worn on the fore part of the body, to keep the clothes clean, to defend them from injury, or as a covering. It is commonly tied at the waist by strings.
  • English Word Apron Definition Something which by its shape or use suggests an apron;
  • English Word Apron Definition The fat skin covering the belly of a goose or duck.
  • English Word Apron Definition A piece of leather, or other material, to be spread before a person riding on an outside seat of a vehicle, to defend him from the rain, snow, or dust; a boot.
  • English Word Apron Definition A leaden plate that covers the vent of a cannon.
  • English Word Apron Definition A piece of carved timber, just above the foremost end of the keel.
  • English Word Apron Definition A platform, or flooring of plank, at the entrance of a dock, against which the dock gates are shut.
  • English Word Apron Definition A flooring of plank before a dam to cause the water to make a gradual descent.
  • English Word Apron Definition The piece that holds the cutting tool of a planer.
  • English Word Apron Definition A strip of lead which leads the drip of a wall into a gutter; a flashing.
  • English Word Apron Definition The infolded abdomen of a crab.
  • English Word Apron man Definition A man who wears an apron; a laboring man; a mechanic.
  • English Word Apron string Definition The string of an apron.
  • English Word Aproned Definition Wearing an apron.
  • English Word Apronful Definition The quantity an apron can hold.
  • English Word Apronfuls Definition of Apronful
  • English Word Apronless Definition Without an apron.
  • English Word Aprosos Definition Opportunely or opportune; seasonably or seasonable.
  • English Word Aprosos Definition By the way; to the purpose; suitably to the place or subject; -- a word used to introduce an incidental observation, suited to the occasion, though not strictly belonging to the narration.
  • English Word Apse Definition A projecting part of a building, esp. of a church, having in the plan a polygonal or semicircular termination, and, most often, projecting from the east end. In early churches the Eastern apse was occupied by seats for the bishop and clergy.
  • English Word Apse Definition The bishop's seat or throne, in ancient churches.
  • English Word Apse Definition A reliquary, or case in which the relics of saints were kept.
  • English Word Apsidal Definition Of or pertaining to the apsides of an orbit.
  • English Word Apsidal Definition Of or pertaining to the apse of a church; as, the apsidal termination of the chancel.
  • English Word Apsides Definition See Apsis.
  • English Word Apsides Definition of Apsis