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One who is destitute of feeling.

One who imitates servilely (in allusion to the manners of the ape); a mimic. Byron.

One who apes.

the vocal organs remaining intact, and the intelligence being preserved. It is dependent on injury or disease of the brain.

One of the genus Aphis; an aphidian.

One of the aphides; an aphid.

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

One of the whitish specks called aphthæ.

Roundish pearl-colored specks or flakes in the mouth, on the lips, etc., terminating in white sloughs. They are commonly characteristic of thrush.

One who keeps an apiary.

Each by itself; by the single one; to each; as the share of each; as, these melons cost a shilling apiece. "Fined . . . a thousand pounds apiece." Hume.

A prefix from a Greek preposition. It usually signifies from, away from, off, or asunder, separate; as, in apocope (a cutting off), apostate, apostle (one sent away), apocarpous.

Free from chromatic and spherical aberration; -- said esp. of a lens in which rays of three or more colors are brought to the same focus, the degree of achromatism thus obtained being more complete than where two rays only are thus focused, as in the ordinary achromatic objective. --Ap`o*chro"ma*tism (#), n.…

One who believes in, or defends, the Apocrypha. [R.]

One of certain animals that have no feet or footlike organs; esp. one of certain fabulous birds which were said to have no feet.

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

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

One who makes an apology; one who speaks or writes in defense of a faith, a cause, or an institution; especially, one who argues in defense of Christianity.

One who makes an apology; an apologist.

Any one of the thicker and denser of the deep fasciæ which cover, invest, and the terminations and attachments of, many muscles. They often differ from tendons only in being flat and thin. See Fascia.