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An ornamental appendage of wood at the ship's stern, usually spreading like a fan and curved like a bird's feather. Audsley.

ntirely of partially separate, as the carpels of a compound pistil; -- opposed to syncarpous. Lindley.

A delegate or deputy; especially, the pope's nuncio or legate at Constantinople.

An apocrustic medicine.

Belonging to, or resembling, a family of plants, of which the dogbane (Apocynum) is the type.

Apodal; apod.

Devoted to enjoyment.

Pertaining to, or partaking of the nature of, an aposteme.

collection of organs all of which unite in a common function; as, the respiratory apparatus.

Worthy pf applause; praiseworthy. [Obs.]

mation, huzzas, or other means; marked commendation. The brave man seeks not popular applause. Dryden.

Expressing applause; approbative. -- Ap*plau"sive*ly, adv.

Without an anal office.

Destitute of wings; apteral; as, apterous insects.

A shelly plate found in the terminal chambers of ammonite shells. Some authors consider them to be jaws; others, opercula.

A genus of fresh-water phyllopod crustaceans. See Phyllopod.

Incombustible; capable of sustaining a strong heat without alteration of form or properties.

A constellation south of Pegasus.

Partaking of the nature of water, or abounding with it; watery. The aqueous vapor of the air. Tyndall.

Wateriness.