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Full of anxiety or disquietude; greatly concerned or solicitous, esp. respecting future or unknown; being in painful suspense; -- applied to persons; as, anxious for the issue of a battle.

The quality of being anxious; great solicitude; anxiety.

To any extent; in any degree; at all. You are not to go loose any longer. Shak. Before you go any farther. Steele.

A tense in the Greek language, which expresses an action as completed in past time, but leaves it, in other respects, wholly indeterminate.

The great artery which carries the blood from the heart to all parts of the body except the lungs; the main trunk of the arterial system.

Native phosphate of lime, occurring usually in six-sided prisms, color often pale green, transparent or translucent.

the order Hemiptera and family Aphidæ, including numerous species known as plant lice and green flies.

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

The Greek goddess of love, corresponding to the Venus of the Romans.

With quick beating or palpitation; pitapat. Congreve.

A prefix from a Greek preposition. It usually signifies from, away from, off, or asunder, separate; as, in apocope (a cutting off), apostate, apostle (one sent away), apocarpous.

esp. of a lens in which rays of three or more colors are brought 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.

That point in the orbit of the moon which is at the greatest distance from the earth.

A deity among the Greeks and Romans. He was the god of light and day (the "sun god"), of archery, prophecy, medicine, poetry, 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 pa…

Defending by words or arguments; said or written in defense, or by way of apology; regretfully excusing; as, an apologetic essay. "To speak in a subdued and apologetic tone." Macaulay.

apology or excuse; to make acknowledgment of some fault or offense, with expression of regret for it, by way of amends; -- with for; as, my correspondent apologized for not answering my letter. To apologize for his insolent language. Froude.

dmission to another of a wrong or discourtesy done him, accompanied by an expression of regret.

ho first plants the Christian faith in any part of the world; also, one who initiates any great moral reform, or first advocates any important belief; one who has extraordinary success as a missionary or reformer; as, Dionysius of Corinth is called the apostle of France, John Eliot the apostle to the Indians, Theobald…

To come before the public; as, a great writer appeared at that time.

Something appended to, or accompanying, a principal or greater thing, though not necessary to it, as a portico to a house. Modesty is the appendage of sobriety. Jer. Taylor.