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One indifferently, out of an indefinite number; one indefinitely, whosoever or whatsoever it may be.

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

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

Having two or more parts of different curvatures, so combined as to remove spherical aberration; -- said of a lens. Aplanatic focus of a lens (Opt.), the point or focus from which rays diverging pass the lens without spherical aberration. In certain forms of lenses there are two such foci; and it is by taking advantage…

Apparentness; state of being apparent. Coleridge.

Semblance, or apparent likeness; external show. pl. Outward signs, or circumstances, fitted to make a particular impression or to determine the judgment as to the character of a person or a thing, an act or a state; as, appearances are against him. There was upon the tabernacle, as it were, the appearance of fire. Num.…

Apparently. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.

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

A transparent, pale green variety of beryl, used as a gem. See Beryl.

A design or painting in thin transparent water colors; also, the mode of painting in such colors.

A painter in thin transparent water colors.

Exchange); also, a traffic in stocks which bear differing values at the same time in different markets.

The apparent arc described, above or below the horizon, by the sun or other celestial body. The diurnal arc is described during the daytime, the nocturnal arc during the night. Electric arc, Voltaic arc. See under Voltaic.

A term applied to several different species of plants (Angelica archangelica, Lamium album, etc.).

The primitive enteron or undifferentiated digestive sac of a gastrula or other embryo. See Illust. under Invagination.

The present indicative plural of the substantive verb to be; but etymologically a different word from be, or was. Am, art, are, and is, all come from the root as.

In some provinces of Russia, one who farms the rents or revenues.

Any small space, bounded by some part different in color or structure, as the spaces bounded by the nervures of the wings of insects, or those by the veins of leaves; an areola.

A lamp with a circular hollow wick and glass chimney which allow a current of air both inside and outside of the flame. Argand burner, a burner for an Argand lamp, or a gas burner in which the principle of that lamp is applied.

To persuade by reasons; as, to argue a man into a different opinion.