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A small, dry, indehiscent fruit, containing a single seed, as in the buttercup; -- called a naked seed by the earlier botanists. [Written also akene and achænium.]

Pertaining to an achene.

See Henna.

The alisphenoid bone.

Pertaining to or forming the wing of the sphenoid; relating to a bone in the base of the skull, which in the adult is often consolidated with the sphenoid; as, alisphenoid bone; alisphenoid canal.

Pertaining to or designating the humid division of the Transition zone extending across the northern United States from New England to eastern Dakota, and including also most of Pennsylvania and the mountainous region as far south as northern Georgia.

Of or pertaining to the Allegheny Mountains, or the region where they are situated. Also Al"le*gha`ny.

Uniting the chemical rays of light into one focus, as a certain kind of lens; amacratic.

Of unequal strength.

To take or seize; to take hold of. [Archaic] We have two hands to apprehended it. Jer. Taylor.

One who apprehends.

The quality of being apprehensible. [R.] De Quincey.

Capable of being apprehended or conceived. "Apprehensible by faith." Bp. Hall. -- Ap`*pre*hen"si*bly, adv.

The act of seizing or taking hold of; seizure; as, the hand is an organ of apprehension. Sir T. Browne.

Capable of apprehending, or quick to do so; apt; discerning. It may be pardonable to imagine that a friend, a kind and apprehensive . . . friend, is listening to our talk. Hawthorne.

In an apprehensive manner; with apprehension of danger.

The quality or state of being apprehensive.

The division that includes man alone. R. Owen.

A principal enemy. Specifically, Satan, the grand adversary of mankind. Milton.

Relating to the archenteron; as, archenteric invagination.