The act of opening; an opening; an aperture.

Openly; clearly.

Openness; frankness.

The act of opening.

A place where apes are kept.

Having no petals, or flower leaves. [See Illust. under Anther].

The state of being apetalous.

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.

Same as Apheresis.

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.

Pertaining to aphakia; as, aphakial eyes.

A group of wingless insects, of which the flea in the type. See Flea.

Of or pertaining to the Aphaniptera.

A very compact, dark-colored /ock, consisting of hornblende, or pyroxene, and feldspar, but neither of them in perceptible grains.

Resembling aphanite; having a very fine-grained structure.

Pertaining to, or affected by, aphasia; speechless.

one of two subgroups of Nematoda used in some classification systems.

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.

That point of a planet's or comet's orbit which is most distant from the sun, the opposite point being the perihelion.

Turning away from the sun; -- said of leaves, etc.

The habit of bending from the sunlight; -- said of certain plants.

Loss of the power of speaking, while retaining the power of writing; -- a disorder of cerebral origin.

The dropping of a letter or syllable from the beginning of a word; e. g., cute for acute.

relating to or formed by or consisting of aphaeresis.

The loss of a short unaccented vowel at the beginning of a word; -- the result of a phonetic process; as, squire for esquire.

Shortened by dropping a letter or a syllable from the beginning of a word; as, an aphetic word or form.

An aphetized form of a word.

To shorten by aphesis.

One of the genus Aphis; an aphidian.

See Aphis.

Of or pertaining to the family Aphid/. One of the aphides; an aphid.

Feeding upon aphides, or plant lice, as do beetles of the family Coccinellid/.

Want of love to mankind; -- the opposite of philanthropy.

A genus of insects belonging to the order Hemiptera and family Aphid/, including numerous species known as plant lice and green flies.

Flameless; as, an aphlogistic lamp, in which a coil of wire is kept in a state of continued ignition by alcohol, without flame.

Without voice; voiceless; nonvocal; incapable of all but whispered speech.

Loss of voice or vocal utterance.

A comprehensive maxim or principle expressed in a few words; a sharply defined sentence relating to abstract truth rather than to practical matters.

A dealer in aphorisms.

Pertaining to aphorisms, or having the form of an aphorism.

A writer or utterer of aphorisms.

In the form of, or of the nature of, an aphorism; in the form of short, unconnected sentences; as, an aphoristic style.

In the form or manner of aphorisms; pithily.

To make aphorisms.

Without light.

= Dumbness. A disorder of speech in which words can be uttered but not intelligibly joined together.

See under Calcite.

That which (as a drug, or some kinds of food) stimulate sexual desire.

Exciting venereal desire; stimulating the desire for sexual gratification.

Pertaining to Aphrodite or Venus. /Aphrodisian dames/ [that is, courtesans].

The Greek goddess of love, corresponding to the Venus of the Romans.

Venereal.

One of the whitish specks called aphth/. The disease, also called thrush.

Roundish pearl-colored specks or flakes in the mouth, on the lips, etc., terminating in white sloughs. They are commonly characteristic of thrush.

Of the nature of aphth/; resembling thrush.

A letter, or a combination of letters, employed in spelling a word, but in the pronunciation having no sound.

Pertaining to, or caused by, aphth/; characterized by apht/; as, aphthous ulcers; aphthous fever.

Destitute of leaves, as the broom rape, certain euphorbiaceous plants, etc.

The capital city of Samoa. Population (2000) = 32,859.

A natural family of plants bearing flowers in umbels; examples are: parsley; carrot; anise; caraway; celery; dill.

Belonging to bees.

Of or relating to bees.

One who keeps an apiary.

A place where bees are kept; a stand or shed for bees; a beehouse.

At or belonging to an apex, tip, or summit.

See Apex.

Belonging to Apicius, a notorious Roman epicure; hence applied to whatever is peculiarly refined or dainty and expensive in cookery.

Situated at, or near, the apex; apical.

Terminated abruptly by a small, distinct point, as a leaf.

Rearing of bees for their honey and wax.

a farmer who keeps bees for their honey.

a family of insects comprising the bees; examples are: honeybees; carpenter bees; bumblebees.

Each by itself; by the single one; to each; as the share of each; as, these melons cost a shilling apiece.

In pieces or to pieces.

Trimmed.

An oily liquid derived from parsley.

A student of bees.

The scientific or systematic study of honey bees.

A genus of insects of the order Hymenoptera, including the common honeybee (Apis mellifica) and other related species. See Honeybee.

Having the qualities of an ape; prone to imitate in a servile manner. Hence: Apelike; fantastically silly; foppish; affected; trifling.

In an apish manner; with servile imitation; foppishly.

The quality of being apish; mimicry; foppery.

With quick beating or palpitation; pitapat.

feeding on bees; bee-eating.

Belonging to the Aplacentata; without placenta.

Mammals which have no placenta.

A division of Amphineura in which the body is naked or covered with slender spines or set/, but is without shelly plates.

one of the aplacophora; a deep-water wormlike mollusk lacking calcareous plates on the body but having fine limy spicules on the covering mantle.

Having two or more parts of different curvatures, so combined as to remove spherical aberration; -- said of a lens.

Freedom from spherical aberration.

A nonmotile gamete, found in certain lower alg/.

Incomplete or faulty development.

Not plastic or easily molded.

an anemia characterized by substantial reduction or cessation of production of red blood cells and hemoglobin by the bone marrow.

light-colored and fine-grained granitic rock consisting chiefly of quartz and feldspars.

of or pertaining to an aplite.

the type genus of the family Aplodontiidae, comprising the mountain beavers.

a family of mammals comprising the mountain beavers.

Assurance of manner or of action; self-possession.

Simple incision.

An ornamental appendage of wood at the ship's stern, usually spreading like a fan and curved like a bird's feather.

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.

transient cessation of respiration.

of or pertaining to apnea.

Devoid of air; free from air; as, an apneumatic lung; also, effected by or with exclusion of air; as, an apneumatic operation.

An order of holothurians in which the internal respiratory organs are wanting; -- called also Apoda or Apodes.

Partial privation or suspension of breath; suffocation; same as apnea.

same as apneic.

One of a numerous class of writings proceeding from Jewish authors between 250 b. c. and 150 a. d., and designed to propagate the Jewish faith or to cheer the hearts of the Jewish people with the promise of deliverance and glory; or proceeding from Christian authors of the opening centuries and designed to portray the future.

Of or pertaining to a revelation, or, specifically, to the Revelation of St. John; containing, or of the nature of, a prophetic revelation.

By revelation; in an apocalyptic manner.

The writer of the Apocalypse.

Either entirely or partially separate, as the carpels of a compound pistil; -- opposed to syncarpous.

Free from chromatic and spherical aberration; -- said esp. of a lens in which rays of three or more colors are brought to the same focus, the degree of achromatism thus obtained being more complete than where two rays only are thus focused, as in the ordinary achromatic objective.

An alkaloid, C18H19NO2, prepared from codeine. In its effects it resembles apomorphine.

To cut off or drop; as, to apocopate a word, or the last letter, syllable, or part of a word.

Shortened by apocope; as, an apocopate form.

Shortening by apocope; the state of being apocopated.

The cutting off, or omission, of the last letter, syllable, or part of a word.

A delegate or deputy; especially, the pope's nuncio or legate at Constantinople.