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Contrary to nature; unnatural.

ruffled or roused to active interest or exertion by pleasure, pain, or passion. "The apathy of despair." Macaulay. A certain apathy or sluggishness in his nature which led him . . . to leave events to take their own course. Prescott. According to the Stoics, apathy meant the extinction of the passions by the ascendenc…

Destitute of leaves, as the broom rape, certain euphorbiaceous plants, etc.

Of or pertaining to a portion of the horn of the hyoid bone.

The small hollow curvature given to the top or bottom of the shaft of a column where it expands to meet the edge of the fillet; -- called also the scape. Parker.

rring in square prisms or octahedrons with pearly luster on the cleavage surface. It is a hydrous silicate of calcium and potassium.

A marked prominence or process on any part of a bone.

A description of, or a treatise on, antiquity or antiquities.

The territory of an archduke or archduchess. Ash.

Arched; as, archy brows.

See Arrhizal, Arrhizous, Arrhythmic, Arrhythmous.

Severely criticism.

Being without rhythm or regularity, as the pulse.

Want of rhythm. [R.]

A systematic description of the arteries.

The description of joints.

Any disease of the joints.

Ash-colored; whitish gray; deadly pale. Shak. Ashy pale, pale as ashes. Shak.

Pertaining to asphyxia.

Apparent death, or suspended animation; the condition which results from interruption of respiration, as in suffocation or drowning, or the inhalation of irrespirable gases.