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A nonmotile gamete, found in certain lower algæ.

btful authority; equivocal; mythic; fictitious; spurious; false. The passages . . . are, however, in part from apocryphal or fictitious works. Sir G. C. Lewis.

A follower of Apollinaris, Bishop of Laodicea in the fourth century, who denied the proper humanity of Christ.

A crystalline alkaloid obtained from morphia. It is a powerful emetic.

The difference between two quantities commensurable only in power, as between sq. root2 and 1, or between the diagonal and side of a square.

To grow faint; to become weak; to become dismayed or discouraged. [Obs.] Gower.

ts; to cover with something ornamental; to deck; to embellish; as, trees appareled with flowers, or a garden with verdure. Appareled in celestial light. Wordsworth.

The thing desired. [Obs.] Power being the natural appetite of princes. Swift.

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

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

Applied or put to some use. Those applicate sciences which extend the power of man over the elements. I. Taylor. Applicate number (Math.), one which applied to some concrete case. -- Applicate ordinate, right line applied at right angles to the axis of any conic section, and bounded by the curve.

To fix with power or firmness; to establish; to mark out. When he appointed the foundations of the earth. Prov. viii. 29.

A person in whose favor a power of appointment is executed. Kent. Wharton.

One who appoints, or executes a power of appointment. Kent.

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

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.

To be sensible of; to distinguish. To test the power of bappreciate color. Lubbock.

n appreciation of the difficulties before us; an appreciation of colors. His foreboding showed his appreciation of Henry's character. J. R. Green.

To be apprehensive; to fear. It is worse to apprehend than to suffer. Rowe.

To give notice, verbal or written; to inform; -- followed by of; as, we will apprise the general of an intended attack; he apprised the commander of what he had done.