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Turning away from the sun; -- said of leaves, etc. Darwin.

The habit of bending from the sunlight; -- said of certain plants.

The larva of the lacewinged flies (Chrysopa), which feeds voraciously upon aphids. The name is also applied to the larvæ of the ladybugs (Coccinella).

A depth of water so great that only those organisms can exist that do not assimilate.

An oily liquid derived from parsley.

A student of bees. [R.] Emerson.

The scientific or systematic study of honey bees.

Shortening by apocope; the state of being apocopated.

A figure of speech in which the speaker breaks off suddenly, as if unwilling or unable to state what was in his mind; as, "I declare to you that his conduct -- but I can not speak of that, here."

The formation of an aposteme; the process of suppuration. [Written corruptly imposthumation.] Wiseman.

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.

The word by which a particular person or thing is called and known; name; title; designation. They must institute some persons under the appellation of magistrates. Hume.

An appendage. [Obs.]

The act of appending. [Obs.]

The mind's perception of itself as the subject or actor in its own states; perception that reflects upon itself; sometimes, intensified or energetic perception. Leibnitz. Reid. This feeling has been called by philosophers the apperception or consciousness of our own existence. Sir W. Hamilton.

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

The act of applying or laying on, in a literal sense; as, the application of emollients to a diseased limb.

To divide and assign in just proportion; to divide and distribute proportionally; to portion out; to allot; as, to apportion undivided rights; to apportion time among various employments.

The quality of being apportioned or in proportion. [Obs. & R.]