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A crystalline alkaloid obtained from morphia. It is a powerful emetic.

Of or pertaining to an aponeurosis.

An enlargement at the top of a pedicel or stem, as seen in certain mosses. Gray.

Pertaining to, or characterized by, apostasy; faithless to moral allegiance; renegade. So spake the apostate angel. Milton. A wretched and apostate state. Steele.

Pertaining to, or partaking of the nature of, an aposteme.

les' creed, a creed of unknown origin, which was formerly ascribed to the apostles. It certainly dates back to the beginning of the sixth century, and some assert that it can be found in the writings of Ambrose in the fourth century. -- Apostle spoon (Antiq.), a spoon of silver, with the handle terminating in the figu…

A member of one of certain ascetic sects which at various times professed to imitate the practice of the apostles.

Pertaining to an apostle, or to the apostles, their times, or their peculiar spirit; as, an apostolical mission; the apostolic age.

Pertaining to an apostrophe, grammatical or rhetorical.

Pertaining to, or in the manner of, an apotghem; sententious; pithy.

Pertaining to, or resembling, a decoction. [Obs.] J. Whitaker.

Of or pertaining to a chain of mountains in the United States, commonly called the Allegheny mountains.

Pertaining to an apparition or to apparitions; spectral. "An apparitional soul." Tylor.

To seem; to have a certain semblance; to look. They disfigure their faces, that they may appear unto men to fast. Matt. vi. 16.

Pertaining to, or taking cognizance of, appeals. "Appellate jurisdiction." Blackstone. "Appellate judges." Burke. Appelate court, a court having cognizance of appeals.

Pertaining to a common name; serving as a distinctive denomination; denominative; naming. Cudworth.

Containing an appeal. An appellatory libel ought to contain the name of the party appellant. Ayliffe.

Belonging; appertaining. [Now usually written appurtenant.] Coleridge.

Specifically: An instinctive inclination or propensity in animals to perform certain actions, as in the young to suck, in aquatic fowls to enter into water and to swim; the tendency of an organized body to seek what satisfies the wants of its organism. These lacteals have mouths, and by animal selection or appetency th…

Of or pertaining to Appius. Appian Way, the great paved highway from ancient Rome trough Capua to Brundisium, now Brindisi, constructed partly by Appius Claudius, about 312 b. c.