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One of several upright slender calcareous processes which surround the central part of the calicle of certain corals.

Of or pertaining to a bog or marsh; boggy. [R.]

Of, pertaining to, or living in, a marsh or swamp; marshy.

Pale; wanting color; dim. [Poetic] Shak. Whittier.

Having the ovule inverted, but with the attachment near the middle of one side; half anatropous.

Having the ovule inverted at an early period in its development, so that the chalaza is as the apparent apex; -- opposed to orthotropous. Gray.

Opposed to the pope or to popery. Milton.

Standing before a sepal, or calyx leaf.

At the extremity most remote from the hilum, as the embryo, or inverted with respect to the seed, as the radicle. Lindley.

Antitypical. [R.]

See Appalachian.

Of or pertaining to a chain of mountains in the United States, commonly called the Allegheny mountains.

To make pale; to blanch. [Obs.] The answer that ye made to me, my dear, . . . Hath so appalled my countenance. Wyatt.

Such as to appall; as, an appalling accident. -- Ap*pall"ing*ly, adv.

Depression occasioned by terror; dismay. [Obs.] Bacon.

ing to an archetype; consisting a model (real or ideal) or pattern; original. "One archetypal mind." Gudworth.

With reference to the archetype; originally. "Parts archetypally distinct." Dana.

Of or pertaining to an archbishop; as, Canterbury is an archiepiscopal see.

The station or dignity of an archbishop; archiepiscopacy. Fuller.

A thorny shrub yielding a fragrant oil. Ecclus. xxiv. 15.