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Having or designating conspicuous or warning colors or structures indicative of special means of defense against enemies, as in the skunk.

Destroying the appetite, or suspending hunger.

Apostatical. [R.]

Apostate. An heretical and apostatical church. Bp. Hall.

nt. In this way a passage in the Old Testament may have, or rather comprise, an apotelesmatic sense, i. e., one of after or final accomplishment. M. Stuart.

Pertaining to, or in the manner of, an apotghem; sententious; pithy.

One who is bound by indentures or by legal agreement to serve a mechanic, or other person, for a certain time, with a view to learn the art, or trade, in which his master is bound to instruct him.

Apprenticeship. [Obs.]

Apprenticeship. [Obs.]

The service or condition of an apprentice; the state in which a person is gaining instruction in a trade or art, under legal agreement.

Pertaining to, or characterized by, aptotes; uninflected; as, aptotic languages.

Without fever; -- applied to days when there is an intermission of fever. Dunglison.

r growing in water; living in, swimming in, or frequenting the margins of waters; as, aquatic plants and fowls.

Aquatic. [R.]

Like, or imitative of, anything archaic; pertaining to an archaism.

situated under, the northern constellation called the Bear; northern; frigid; as, the arctic pole, circle, region, ocean; an arctic expedition, night, temperature.

Of or pertaining to sandstone; as, arenilitic mountains. Kirwan.

Pertaining to the Areopagus. Mitford.

id of certain compounds of silver in which this metal has its lowest proportion; as, argentic chloride.

Of or pertaining to the Argonauts.