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The Greek goddess of love, corresponding to the Venus of the Romans.

Venereal. [R.] Dunglison.

An alkaloid, , prepared from codeine. In its effects it resembles apomorphine.

Without feet; footless.

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

A group of cirripeds, destitute of footlike organs.

Apodal.

Self-evident; intuitively true; evident beyond contradiction. Brougham. Sir Wm. Hamilton.

So as to be evident beyond contradiction.

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

An order of fishes without ventral fins, including the eels.

Same as Apodeictic.

Full demonstration.

lay 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.

Apprenticeship. [Obs.]

le instead of from the funicle or chalaza of the ovule. The mace of the nutmeg is an arillode.

A shrub (Viburnum dentatum) growing in damp woods and thickets; -- so called from the long, straight, slender shoots.

The external covering of an Arthropod.