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Destitute of a tail, as the frogs and toads. [Also written anourous.]

tly hove in to bring the ship over it, and the ship is them said to be hove apeak. [Spelt also apeek.]

arva of the lacewinged flies (Chrysopa), which feeds voraciously upon aphids. The name is also applied to the larvæ of the ladybugs (Coccinella).

The disease, also called thrush.

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.

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

y, and music, etc., and was represented as the model of manly grace and beauty; -- called also Phébus. The Apollo Belvedere, a celebrated statue of Apollo in the Belvedere gallery of the Vatican palace at Rome, esteemed of the noblest representations of the human frame.

ottom of the shaft of a column where it expands to meet the edge of the fillet; -- called also the scape. Parker.

to preach the gospel. He called unto him his disciples, and of them he chose twelve, whom also he named apostles. Luke vi. 13.

To contract by omitting a letter or letters; also, to mark with an apostrophe (') or apostrophes.

A tap or stamp of the foot as a warning of intent to attack; -- called also attack.

A kind of apple which by keeping becomes much withered; -- called also Johnapple. Shak.

Applicable; also, compliant. [Obs.] Howell.

(under a "power of appointment") a person to enjoy an estate or other specific property; also, the instrument by which the designation is made.

The putting of things in juxtaposition, or side by side; also, the condition of being so placed.

g or shoot of one tree into another, without cutting it from the parent stock; -- called, also, inarching and grafting by approach.

A spiritual corporation possessed of an appropriated benefice; also, an impropriator.

The act of approximating; a drawing, advancing or being near; approach; also, the result of approximating. The largest capacity and the most noble dispositions are but an approximation to the proper standard and true symmetry of human nature. I. Taylor.

A driving or running towards; approach; impulse; also, the act of striking against. In all consonants there is an appulse of the organs. Holder.