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A very compact, dark-colored

Resembling aphanite; having a very fine-grained structure.

See under Calcite.

A large marine annelid, covered with long, lustrous, golden, hairlike setæ; the sea mouse.

Venereal. [R.] Dunglison.

With quick beating or palpitation; pitapat. Congreve.

A mineral relating to the zeolites, usually occurring in square prisms or octahedrons with pearly luster on the cleavage surface. It is a hydrous silicate of calcium and potassium.

Destroying the appetite, or suspending hunger.

The state or quality of being apostolical.

One of a sect of ancient Christians, who, in supposed imitation of the first believers, renounced all their possessions.

The act of becoming visible; appearance; visibility. Milton. The sudden apparition of the Spaniards. Prescott. The apparition of Lawyer Clippurse occasioned much speculation in that portion of the world. Sir W. Scott.

Pertaining to an apparition or to apparitions; spectral. "An apparitional soul." Tylor.

ficer who attended magistrates and judges to execute their orders. Before any of his apparitors could execute the sentence, he was himself summoned away by a sterner apparitor to the other world. De Quincey.

Inflammation of the vermiform appendix.

The quality of being desirable. Bramhall.

The desire for some personal gratification, either of the body or of the mind. The object of appetite it whatsoever sensible good may be wished for; the object of will is that good which reason does lead us to seek. Hooker.

Desire; a longing for, or seeking after, something. Holland.

Having the quality of desiring gratification; as, appetitive power or faculty. Sir M. Hale.

The quality of being applicable or fit to be applied.

Very applicable; well adapted; suitable or fit; relevant; pat; -- followed by to; as, this argument is very apposite to the case. -- Ap"po*site*ly, adv. -- Ap"po*site*ness, n.