A group of nomadic North American Indians including several tribes native of Arizona, New Mexico, etc.

An indirect argument which proves a thing by showing the impossibility or absurdity of the contrary.

Proving indirectly, by showing the absurdity, or impossibility of the contrary.

Paid; pleased.

To impair or become impaired; to injure.

See Appalachian.

Same as Appanage.

An aversion to the company of men; a love of solitude.

See Mataco.

A kind of pack saddle used in the American military service and among the Spanish Americans. It is made of leather stuffed with hay, moss, or the like.

Enumeration of parts or particulars.

Separately, in regard to space or company; in a state of separation as to place; aside.

segregation by race; -- a term used in South Africa.

A room in a building; a division in a house, separated from others by partitions.

The quality of standing apart.

That point in the orbit of a double star where the smaller star is farthest from its primary.

Void of feeling; not susceptible of deep emotion; passionless.

In an apathetic manner.

One who is destitute of feeling.

Apathetic; une motional.

Want of feeling; privation of passion, emotion, or excitement; dispassion; -- applied either to the body or the mind. As applied to the mind, it is a calmness, indolence, or state of indifference, incapable of being ruffled or roused to active interest or exertion by pleasure, pain, or passion.

Native phosphate of lime, occurring usually in six-sided prisms, color often pale green, transparent or translucent.

a genus of extinct dinosaurs comprising the brontosaurs; apatosaurs.

a genus of large Old World butterflies.

See Appaum/.

To mimic, as an ape imitates human actions; to imitate or follow servilely or irrationally.

In a vertical line. The anchor in apeak, when the cable has been sufficiently hove in to bring the ship over it, and the ship is them said to be hove apeak.

The state of being an ape.

Destitute of skin.

Of, pertaining to, or designating, the Apennines, a chain of mountains extending through Italy.

Defective digestion, indigestion.

One who apes.

A first view or glance, or the perception or estimation so obtained; an immediate apprehension or insight, appreciative rather than analytic.

The wild Guinea pig of Brazil (Cavia aperea).

Gently opening the bowels; laxative. An aperient medicine or food.

Serving to open; aperient.

Openly.

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.

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.

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.