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Same as Apodeictic.

Full demonstration.

slay me, yet will I trust in him," the former clause is the protasis, and the latter the apodosis.

Apodal; apod.

The apartment at the entrance of the baths, or in the palestra, where one stripped; a dressing room.

One of the Arthropoda.

A large division of Articulata, embracing all those that have jointed legs. It includes Insects, Arachnida, Pychnogonida, and Crustacea. -- Ar*throp"o*dal, a.

One of the thoracic legs of Arthropods.

The basal joint of the legs of Crustacea.

One of the Brachiopoda, or its shell.

A class of Molluscoidea having a symmetrical bivalve shell, often attached by a fleshy peduncle.

Those Gastropoda that breathe by branchiæ, including the Prosobranchiata and Opisthobranchiata.

One of the Branchiopoda.

An order of Entomostraca; -- so named from the feet of branchiopods having been supposed to perform the function of gills. It includes the fresh-water genera Branchipus, Apus, and Limnadia, and the genus Artemia found in salt lakes. It is also called Phyllopoda. See Phyllopoda, Cladocera. It is sometimes used in a broa…

One of the Cephalopoda.

The highest class of Mollusca.

Belonging to, or resembling, the cephalopods.

One of the jointed antenniform appendage of the posterior somites of cartain insects. Packard.

Pertaining to the Chætopoda. -- n.

A very extensive order of Annelida, characterized by the presence of lateral setæ, or spines, on most or all of the segments. They are divided into two principal groups: Oligochæta, including the earthworms and allied forms, and Polychæta, including most of the marine species.