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o each; as the share of each; as, these melons cost a shilling apiece. "Fined . . . a thousand pounds apiece." Hume.

ompt; expert; as, a pupil apt to learn; an apt scholar. "An apt wit." Johnson. Live a thousand years, I shall not find myself so apt to die. Shak. I find thee apt . . . Now, Hamlet, hear. Shak.

ladiators fought and other shows were exhibited; -- so called because it was covered with sand.

Sandy or consisting largely of sand; of the nature of sand; easily disintegrating into sand; friable; as, arenaceous limestone.

Sandy; as, arenarious soil.

A sand bath; application of hot sand to the body. Dunglison.

An ancient wormhole in sand, preserved in the rocks. Dana.

Of or pertaining to sandstone; as, arenilitic mountains. Kirwan.

Sandy; full of sand. Johnson.

Full of fine sand; like sand. [Obs.]

Of the nature of clay; consisting of, or containing, argil or clay; clayey. Argillaceous sandstone (Geol.), a sandstone containing much clay. -- Argillaceous iron ore, the clay ironstone. -- Argillaceous schist or state. See Argillite.

Consisting of, or containing, clay and sand, as a soil.

A sandstone derived from the disintegration of granite or gneiss, and characterized by feldspar fragments. -- Ar*kos"ic (#), a.

A piece of tallow placed in a cavity at the lower end of a sounding lead, to bring up the sand, shells, etc., of the sea bottom. Totten.

anting art, knowledge, or skill; ignorant; unskillful. Artless of stars and of the moving sand. Dryden.

idges, roofs, etc.; asphaltic cement. Artificial asphalt is prepared from coal tar, lime, sand, etc. Asphalt stone, Asphalt rock, a limestone found impregnated with asphalt.

, some of which were eighteen or twenty feet long, found in a fossil state in the Old Red Sandstone. Hugh Miller.

esbyter) is used as food. The American species (Menidia notata) is called silversides and sand smelt. See Silversides.

A species of sand grouse (Syrrghaptes Pallasii) found in Asia and rarely in southern Europe.

studies than the common avocations of women. Richardson. In a few hours, above thirty thousand men left his standard, and returned to their ordinary avocations. Macaulay. An irregularity and instability of purpose, which makes them choose the wandering avocations of a shepherd, rather than the more fixed pursuits of ag…