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Colloq.] All the men belonged exclusively to the mechanical and shopkeeping classes, and there was not a single banker or anybody in the list. Lond. Sat. Rev.

Pertaining to Aonia, Boeotia, or to the Muses, who were supposed to dwell there. Aonian fount, the fountain of Aganippe, at the foot of Mount Helicon, not far from Thebes, and sacred to the Muses.

Aside; away. "Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness." Jas. i. 21. Let Pleasure go, put Care apart. Keble.

That point in the orbit of a double star where the smaller star is farthest from its primary.

A place where apes are kept. [R.] Kingsley.

Same as Apheresis.

A place where bees are kept; a stand or shed for bees; a beehouse.

Trimmed. [Obs.] Full fresh and new here gear apiked was. Chaucer.

ch rays diverging pass the lens without spherical aberration. In certain forms of lenses there are two such foci; and it is by taking advantage of this fact that the best aplanatic object glasses of microscopes are constructed.

ught to the same focus, the degree of achromatism thus obtained being more complete than where two rays only are thus focused, as in the ordinary achromatic objective. --Ap`o*chro"ma*tism (#), n.

The apartment at the entrance of the baths, or in the palestra, where one stripped; a dressing room.

The small hollow curvature given to the top or bottom of the shaft of a column where it expands to meet the edge of the fillet; -- called also the scape. Parker.

A figure in which the speaker professes to be at a loss what course to pursue, where to begin to end, what to say, etc.

t was in his mind; as, "I declare to you that his conduct -- but I can not speak of that, here."

One who has forsaken the faith, principles, or party, to which he before adhered; esp., one who has forsaken his religion for another; a pervert; a renegade.

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

e's church, the faith or principles once held, or the party to which one has previously adhered. He apostatized from his old faith in facts, took to believing in Carlyle.

he omission of a letter or letters, which omission is marked by the character ['] placed where the letter or letters would have been; as, call'd for called.

he 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. ix. 15. For man looketh on the outward appearance. 1 Sam. xvi. 7. Judge not according to the appearance. John. vii. 24.

Tendency; appetency. [Obs.] In all bodies there as an appetite of union. Bacon.