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A small antenna; -- applied to the smaller pair of antennæ or feelers of Crustacea.

The ascription of human feelings or passions to God, or to a polytheistic deity. In its recoil from the gross anthropopathy of the vulgar notions, it falls into the vacuum of absolute apathy. Hare.

One who ascribes human feelings to deity.

To feel or show antipathy. [R.]

Contrariety or opposition in feeling; settled aversion or dislike; repugnance; distaste. Inveterate antipathies against particular nations, and passionate attachments to others, are to be avoided. Washington.

An iron block, usually with a steel face, upon which metals are hammered and shaped.

ny degree; at all. You are not to go loose any longer. Shak. Before you go any farther. Steele.

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

One who is destitute of feeling.

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. "The apathy of despair."…

Destitute of the ventral fin, as the eels.

An order of fishes without ventral fins, including the eels.

legiance; renegade. So spake the apostate angel. Milton. A wretched and apostate state. Steele.

n external organ or limb, esp. of the articulates. Antennæ and other appendages used for feeling. Carpenter.

flects upon itself; sometimes, intensified or energetic perception. Leibnitz. Reid. This feeling has been called by philosophers the apperception or consciousness of our own existence. Sir W. Hamilton.

Sensible; feeling; perceptive. [R.] Thoughts, my tormentors, armed with deadly stings, Mangle my apprehensive, tenderest parts. Milton.

A crossbow, consisting of a steel bow set in a shaft of wood, furnished with a string and a trigger, and a mechanical device for bending the bow. It served to throw arrows, darts, bullets, etc. [Written also arbalet and arblast.] Fosbroke.

An axle or spindle of a wheel or opinion.

The treelike disposition of the gray and white nerve tissues in the cerebellum, as seen in a vertical section.

Treelike in shape.