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.

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.

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.

Having no radiating processes; -- applied particularly to certain nerve cells.

Devoted to enjoyment.

A follower of Apollinaris, Bishop of Laodicea in the fourth century, who denied the proper humanity of Christ.

A deity among the Greeks and Romans. He was the god of light and day (the /sun god/), of archery, prophecy, medicine, poetry, and music, etc., and was represented as the model of manly grace and beauty; -- called also Ph/bus.

Of, pertaining to, or resembling, Apollo.

The Destroyer; -- a name used (Rev. ix. 11) for the angel of the bottomless pit, answering to the Hebrew Abaddon.

A teller of apologues.

Defending by words or arguments; said or written in defense, or by way of apology; regretfully excusing; as, an apologetic essay.

By way of apology.

That branch of theology which defends the Holy Scriptures, and sets forth the evidence of their divine authority.

same as apologize.

One who makes an apology; one who speaks or writes in defense of a faith, a cause, or an institution; especially, one who argues in defense of Christianity.

To defend.

One who makes an apology; an apologist.

A story or relation of fictitious events, intended to convey some moral truth; a moral fable.

To offer an apology.

An instrument for measuring the height of objects.

The art of measuring the distance of objects afar off.

A crystalline alkaloid obtained from morphia. It is a powerful emetic.

Any one of the thicker and denser of the deep fasci/ which cover, invest, and the terminations and attachments of, many muscles. They often differ from tendons only in being flat and thin. See Fascia.

Of or pertaining to an aponeurosis.

Dissection of aponeuroses.

Sung or addressed to one departing; valedictory; as, apopemptic songs or hymns.

Designed to facilitate discharges of phlegm or mucus from mouth or nostrils. An apophlegmatic medicine.

The action of apophlegmatics.

An apophlegmatic.

See Apothegm.

A short, pithy, and instructive saying; a terse remark, conveying some important truth; a sententious precept or maxim.

Same as Apothegmatic.

The small hollow curvature given to the top or bottom of the shaft of a column where it expands to meet the edge of the fillet; -- called also the scape.

A mineral relating to the zeolites, usually occurring in square prisms or octahedrons with pearly luster on the cleavage surface. It is a hydrous silicate of calcium and potassium.

A marked prominence or process on any part of a bone.

One liable to, or affected with, apoplexy.

Relating to apoplexy; affected with, inclined to, or symptomatic of, apoplexy; as, an apoplectic person, medicine, habit or temperament, symptom, fit, or stroke.

Resembling apoplexy.

Apoplexy.

Affected with apoplexy.

Sudden diminution or loss of consciousness, sensation, and voluntary motion, usually caused by pressure on the brain.

Doubting; skeptical.

A figure in which the speaker professes to be at a loss what course to pursue, where to begin to end, what to say, etc.

A group of corals in which the coral is not porous; -- opposed to Perforata.

Without pores.

On or towards the port or left side; -- said of the helm.