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state, event, or fact whatever; thing of any kind; something or other; aught; as, I would not do it for anything. Did you ever know of anything so unlucky A. Trollope. They do not know that anything is amiss with them. W. G. Sumner.

sed to dwell there. Aonian fount, the fountain of Aganippe, at the foot of Mount Helicon, not far from Thebes, and sacred to the Muses.

Void of feeling; not susceptible of deep emotion; passionless; indifferent.

ow servilely or irrationally. "How he apes his sire." Addison. The people of England will not ape the fashions they have never tried. Burke.

An aperient medicine or food. Arbuthnot.

A depth of water so great that only those organisms can exist that do not assimilate.

A disorder of speech in which words can be uttered but not intelligibly joined together.

Belonging to Apicius, a notorious Roman epicure; hence applied to whatever is peculiarly refined or dainty and expensive in cookery. H. Rogers.

Not plastic or easily molded.

Not canonical. Hence: Of doubtful authority; equivocal; mythic; fictitious; spurious; false. The passages . . . are, however, in part from apocryphal or fictitious works. Sir G. C. Lewis.

In an apocryphal manner; mythically; not indisputably.

One of the processes of the shell which project inwards and unite with one another, in the thorax of many Crustacea.

sion of regret for it, by way of amends; -- with for; as, my correspondent apologized for not answering my letter. To apologize for his insolent language. Froude.

liable to disapprobation; justification; as, Tertullian's Apology for Christianity. It is not my intention to make an apology for my poem; some will think it needs no excuse, and others will receive none. Dryden.

A figure by which a speaker formally declines to take notice of a favorable point, but in such a manner as to produce the effect desired. [For example, see Mark Antony's oration. Shak., Julius Cæsar, iii. 2.]

A group of corals in which the coral is not porous; -- opposed to Perforata.

unable to state what was in his mind; as, "I declare to you that his conduct -- but I can not speak of that, here."

iples, or party, to which he before adhered; esp., one who has forsaken his religion for another; a pervert; a renegade.

A marginal note on a letter or other paper; an annotation. Motley.

The mark ['] used to denote that a word is contracted (as in ne'er for never, can't for can not), and as sign of the possessive, singular and plural; as, a boy's hat, boys' hats. In the latter use it originally marked the omission of the letter e.