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Destitute of the ventral fin, as the eels.

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

ld Testament may have, or rather comprise, an apotelesmatic sense, i. e., one of after or final accomplishment. M. Stuart.

Natural tendency; affinity; attraction; -- used of inanimate objects.

Capable of being apposed, or applied one to another, as the thumb to the fingers of the hand.

orteus. Appropriate acts of divine worship. Stillingfleet. It is not at all times easy to find words appropriate to express our ideas. Locke.

l apt to learn; an apt scholar. "An apt wit." Johnson. Live a thousand years, I shall not find myself so apt to die. Shak. I find thee apt . . . Now, Hamlet, hear. Shak.

A genus of tall conifers of the pine family. The species are confined mostly to South America and Australia. The wood cells differ from those of other in having the dots in their lateral surfaces in two or three rows, and the dots of contiguous rows alternating. The seeds are edible.

Anat. it usually means primitive, original, ancestral; as, archipterygium, the primitive fin or wing.

The primitive form of fin, like that of Ceratodus.

A very fine sort of Persian silk.

Full of fine sand; like sand. [Obs.]

ve as proof; indicative; as, the adaptation of things to their uses is argumentative of infinite wisdom in the Creator. [Obs.]

Fig.: The fine diffusive quality of intellectual power; flavor; as, the subtile aroma of genius.

op; -- applied esp. to dress of a splendid kind. Pharaoh . . . arrayed him in vestures of fine linen. Gen. xli. In gelid caves with horrid gloom arrayed. Trumbull.

A scurfiness of the back part of the hind leg of a horse; -- also named rat-tails. White. Arrest of judgment (Law), the staying or stopping of a judgment, after verdict, for legal cause. The motion for this purpose is called a motion in arrest of judgment.

or an occupation in which skill is so employed, as in painting and sculpture; one of the fine arts; as, he prefers art to literature.

One of the three words, a, an, the, used before nouns to limit or define their application. A (or an) is called the indefinite article, the the definite article.

Article by article; in distinct particulars; in detail; definitely. Paley. I had articulately set down in writing our points. Fuller.

The state of being jointed; connection of parts. [R.] That definiteness and articulation of imagery. Coleridge.