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.

Umbelliferous.

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.

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.

Astringent and repellent. An apocrustic medicine.

Something, as a writing, that is of doubtful authorship or authority; -- formerly used also adjectively.

Pertaining to the Apocrypha.

One who believes in, or defends, the Apocrypha.

In an apocryphal manner; mythically; not indisputably.

The quality or state of being apocryphal; doubtfulness of credit or genuineness.

Belonging to, or resembling, a family of plants, of which the dogbane (Apocynum) is the type.

A bitter principle obtained from the dogbane (Apocynum cannabinum).

A group of cirripeds, destitute of footlike organs. An order of Amphibia without feet. See Ophiomorpha. A group of worms without appendages, as the leech.

Without feet; footless.

Apodal.

One of certain animals that have no feet or footlike organs; esp. one of certain fabulous birds which were said to have no feet.

One of the processes of the shell which project inwards and unite with one another, in the thorax of many Crustacea.

An order of fishes without ventral fins, including the eels. A group of holothurians destitute of suckers. See Apneumona.

Same as Apodeictic.

Self-evident; intuitively true; evident beyond contradiction.

So as to be evident beyond contradiction.

an oreer of birds including the swifts and hummingbirds.

Full demonstration.

The consequent clause or conclusion in a conditional sentence, expressing the result, and thus distinguished from the protasis or clause which expresses a condition. Thus, in the sentence, /Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him,/ the former clause is the protasis, and the latter the apodosis.

Apodal; apod.

The apartment at the entrance of the baths, or in the palestra, where one stripped; a dressing room.

Apogean.

Relating to apogamy.

of or pertaining to apogamy.

The formation of a bud in place of a fertilized ovule or o/spore.

Apogean.

Connected with the apogee; as, apogean (neap) tides, which occur when the moon has passed her apogee.

That point in the orbit of the moon which is at the greatest distance from the earth.

Bending away from the ground; -- said of leaves, etc.

The apogeotropic tendency of some leaves, and other parts.

A copy or transcript.

Of or pertaining to a portion of the horn of the hyoid bone.

Balanced.