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or easily seen; open to view; visible to the eye; within sight or view. The moon . . . apparent queen. Milton.

Plainly; clearly; manifestly; evidently. If he should scorn me so apparently. Shak.

Plainness to the eye or the mind; visibleness; obviousness. [R.] Sherwood.

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.

officer who attended magistrates and judges to execute their orders. Before any of his apparitors could execute the sentence, he was himself summoned away by a sterner apparitor to the other world. De Quincey.

Secreting water; -- applied to certain glands. Dunglison.

, crystallizable substance, C4H8N2O3+H2O, found in many plants, and first obtained from asparagus. It is believed to aid in the disposition of nitrogenous matter throughout the plant; -- called also altheine.

Pertaining or allied to, or resembling, asparagus; having shoots which are eaten like asparagus; as, asparaginous vegetables.

ch branched stems, and very slender branchlets which are sometimes mistaken for leaves. Asparagus racemosus is a shrubby climbing plant with fragrant flowers. Specifically: The Asparagus officinalis, a species cultivated in gardens.

Pertaining to, or derived, asparagine; as, aspartic acid.

Of or pertaining to the diameter of the cranium, from one parietal fossa to the other.

Bringing forth two at a birth.

Capable of being divided into two parts.

Dividing into two parts. -- n.

Divisible into two parts.

Being in two parts; having two correspondent parts, as a legal contract or writing, one for each party; shared by two; as, a bipartite treaty.

The act of dividing into two parts, or of making two correspondent parts, or the state of being so divided.

The name of several very beautiful birds of the genus Paradisea and allied genera, inhabiting New Guinea and the adjacent islands. The males have brilliant colors, elegant plumes, and often remarkable tail feathers.

A common name of dolomite; -- so called because it contains magnesia, the soluble salts of which are bitter. See Dolomite.