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An order of holothurians in which the internal respiratory organs are wanting; -- called also Apoda or Apodes.

Something, as a writing, that is of doubtful authorship or authority; -- formerly used also adjectively. [Obs.] Locke.

Not canonical. Hence: Of doubtful authority; equivocal; mythic; fictitious; spurious; false. The passages . . . are, however, in part from apocryphal or fictitious works. Sir G. C. Lewis.

One of certain animals that have no feet or footlike organs; esp. one of certain fabulous birds which were said to have no feet.

y, and music, etc., and was represented as the model of manly grace and beauty; -- called also Phébus. The Apollo Belvedere, a celebrated statue of Apollo in the Belvedere gallery of the Vatican palace at Rome, esteemed of the noblest representations of the human frame.

ottom of the shaft of a column where it expands to meet the edge of the fillet; -- called also the scape. Parker.

A group of corals in which the coral is not porous; -- opposed to Perforata.

to preach the gospel. He called unto him his disciples, and of them he chose twelve, whom also he named apostles. Luke vi. 13.

To contract by omitting a letter or letters; also, to mark with an apostrophe (') or apostrophes.

That appeals; imploring. -- Ap*peal"*ing*ly, adv. -- Ap*peal"ing*ness, n.

A tap or stamp of the foot as a warning of intent to attack; -- called also attack.

appellate. "An appellant jurisdiction." Hallam. Party appellant (Law), the party who appeals; appellant; -- opposed to respondent, or appellee. Tomlins.

Pertaining to, or taking cognizance of, appeals. "Appellate jurisdiction." Blackstone. "Appellate judges." Burke. Appelate court, a court having cognizance of appeals.

Specifically: An instinctive inclination or propensity in animals to perform certain actions, as in the young to suck, in aquatic fowls to enter into water and to swim; the tendency of an organized body to seek what satisfies the wants of its organism. These lacteals have mouths, and by animal selection or appetency th…

mbling, or supposed to resemble, the apple; as, apple of love, or love apple (a tomato), balsam apple, egg apple, oak apple.

A kind of apple which by keeping becomes much withered; -- called also Johnapple. Shak.

Applicable; also, compliant. [Obs.] Howell.

(under a "power of appointment") a person to enjoy an estate or other specific property; also, the instrument by which the designation is made.

The putting of things in juxtaposition, or side by side; also, the condition of being so placed.

g or shoot of one tree into another, without cutting it from the parent stock; -- called, also, inarching and grafting by approach.