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An Egyptian deity, the conductor of departed spirits, represented by a human figure with the head of a dog or fox.

To mimic, as an ape imitates human actions; to imitate or follow servilely or irrationally. "How he apes his sire." Addison. The people of England will not ape the fashions they have never tried. Burke.

follower of Apollinaris, Bishop of Laodicea in the fourth century, who denied the proper humanity of Christ.

ere gallery of the Vatican palace at Rome, esteemed of the noblest representations of the human frame.

; a coming or advancing near. "The approach of summer." Horsley. A nearer approach to the human type. Owen.

t noble dispositions are but an approximation to the proper standard and true symmetry of human nature. I. Taylor.

Extent; scope; range; as, a wide area of thought. The largest area of human history and man's common nature. F. Harrison. Dry area. See under Dry.

The limb of the human body which extends from the shoulder to the hand; also, the corresponding limb of a monkey.

rning; study; applied knowledge, science, or letters. [Archaic] So vast is art, so narrow human wit. Pope.

A distinct part. "Upon each article of human duty." Paley. "Each article of time." Habington. The articles which compose the blood. E. Darwin.

A product of human workmanship; -- applied esp. to the simpler products of aboriginal art as distinguished from natural objects.

Made or contrived by art; produced or modified by human skill and labor, in opposition to natural; as, artificial heat or light, gems, salts, minerals, fountains, flowers. Artificial strife Lives in these touches, livelier than life. Shak.

rasitic nematoid worm, espec. the roundworm, Ascaris lumbricoides, often occurring in the human intestine and allied species found in domestic animals; also commonly applied to the pinworm (Oxyuris), often troublesome to children and aged persons.

The act or process of sterilizing an animal or human being, as by vasectomy.

Specifically: The remains of the human body when burnt, or when "returned to dust" by natural decay. Their martyred blood and ashes sow. Milton. The coffins were broken open. The ashes were scattered to the winds. Macaulay.

mous with astronomy; subsequently, the art of judging of the influences of the stars upon human affairs, and of foretelling events by their position and aspects.

one thing is attached to another; connection; as, to cut the attachments of a muscle. The human mind . . . has exhausted its forces in the endeavor to rend the supernatural from its attachment to this history. I. Taylor.

Having the form of the human ear; ear-shaped.

. Huxley. So great and admirable an automaton as the world. Boyle. These living automata, human bodies. Boyle.

force, or efficacy, for the object; effectual; valid; as, an available plea. [Obs.] Laws human are available by consent. Hooker.