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Those who live under the same meridian, but on opposite parallels of latitude, north and south of the equator.

One who holds to no particular creed or dogma.

The great artery which carries the blood from the heart to all parts of the body except the lungs; the main trunk of the arterial system.

Enumeration of parts or particulars.

Separately, in regard to space or company; in a state of separation as to place; aside. Others apart sat on a hill retired. Milton. The Lord hath set apart him that is godly for himself. Ps. iv. 3.

A room in a building; a division in a house, separated from others by partitions. Fielding.

The diameter of the exposed part of the object glass of a telescope or other optical instrument; as, a telescope of four-inch aperture.

An operation by which any part is separated from the rest. [Obs.] Dunglison.

An oily liquid derived from parsley.

Having two or more parts of different curvatures, so combined as to remove spherical aberration; -- said of a lens. Aplanatic focus of a lens (Opt.), the point or focus from which rays diverging pass the lens without spherical aberration. In certain forms of lenses there are two such foci; and it is by taking advantage…

Partial privation or suspension of breath; suffocation.

Either entirely of partially separate, as the carpels of a compound pistil; -- opposed to syncarpous. Lindley.

To cut off or drop; as, to apocopate a word, or the last letter, syllable, or part of a word.

The cutting off, or omission, of the last letter, syllable, or part of a word.

Specif.: Certain writings which are received by some Christians as an authentic part of the Holy Scriptures, but are rejected by others.

rity; equivocal; mythic; fictitious; spurious; false. The passages . . . are, however, in part from apocryphal or fictitious works. Sir G. C. Lewis.

The apogeotropic tendency of some leaves, and other parts.

Having no radiating processes; -- applied particularly to certain nerve cells.

ft of a column where it expands to meet the edge of the fillet; -- called also the scape. Parker.

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