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the surface on which it rests and keeping the head and beak bent at an angle, while Anopheles holds the body at an angle with the surface and the head and beak in line with it. Unless they become themselves infected by previously biting a subject affected with malaria, the insects cannot transmit the disease.…

Having no answer, or impossible to be answered. Byron.

The office or dignity of an apostle.

The result or issue. [Obs.]

illment. In this way a passage in the Old Testament may have, or rather comprise, an apotelesmatic sense, i. e., one of after or final accomplishment. M. Stuart.

Impossible to be approached.

Without an apron.

A crossbow, consisting of a steel bow set in a shaft of wood, furnished with a string and a trigger, and a mechanical device for bending the bow. It served to throw arrows, darts, bullets, etc. [Written also arbalet and arblast.] Fosbroke.

A crossbowman. [Obs.] Speed.

An earnest; earnest money; money paid to bind a bargain. [Scot.] Arles penny, earnest money given to servants. Kersey.

Without any arm or branch.

Wanting art, knowledge, or skill; ignorant; unskillful. Artless of stars and of the moving sand. Dryden.

In an artless manner; without art, skill, or guile; unaffectedly. Pope.

The quality of being artless, or void of art or guile; simplicity; sincerity.

Without aid or help. [R.] Pope.

A genus of American monkeys with prehensile tails, and having the thumb wanting or rudimentary. See Spider monkey, and Coaita.

Without an author; without authority; anonymous.

Unavoidable; inevitable.

See Awless.

Wanting reverence; void of respectful fear. "Awless insolence." Dryden.