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An order of holothurians in which the internal respiratory organs are wanting; -- called also Apoda or Apodes.

on. Apocolyptic number, the number 666, mentioned in Rev. xiii. 18. It has been variously interpreted.

who has successors in the apostolic office. -- Apostolical succession, the regular and uninterrupted transmission of ministerial authority by a succession of bishops from the apostles to any subsequent period. Hook.

Without fever; -- applied to days when there is an intermission of fever. Dunglison.

The absence or intermission of fever.

A painter in thin transparent water colors.

oliage, etc., as well as figures of men and animals, real or imaginary, are fantastically interlaced or put together.

See Intercolumniation.

See Intercolumniation.

Hence: Any sea or broad sheet of water interspersed with many islands or with a group of islands.

To tell, declare, explain, or interpret; to divine; to guess; as, to aread a riddle or a dream. [Obs.] Therefore more plain aread this doubtful case. Spenser.

Of or pertaining to an area; as, areal interstices (the areas or spaces inclosed by the reticulate vessels of leaves).

An interstice or small space, as between the cracks of the surface in certain crustaceous lichens; or as between the fibers composing organs or vessels that interlace; or as between the nervures of an insect's wing.

Pertaining to, or like, an areola; filled with interstices or areolæ. reolar tissue (Anat.), a form of fibrous connective tissue in which the fibers are loosely arranged with numerous spaces, or areolæ, between them.

See Intercolumniation, and Aræostyle.

See Intercolumniation, and Aræosystyle.

Fig.: Want of interest of feeling; insensibility; dryness of style or feeling; spiritual drought. Norris.

armony. Mendelssohn wants the ariose beauty of Handel; vocal melody is not his forte; the interest of his airs harmonic. Foreign Quart. Rev.

distance (literally or figuratively); not to allow to come into close contact or familiar intercourse. -- To work at arm's length, to work disadvantageously.

ound (Chem.), one of a large class of organic substances, as the oils of bitter almonds, wintergreen, and turpentine, the balsams, camphors, etc., many of which have an aromatic odor. They include many of the most important of the carbon compounds and may all be derived from the benzene group, C6H6. The term is extende…