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With a quick pace; quick; fast; speedily. His dewy locks did drop with brine apace. Spenser. A visible triumph of the gospel drawapace. I. Taylor.

The thick shell or sheild which cover the back of the tortoise, or turtle, the crab, and other crustaceous animals.

Same as Accipitres.

he four large shell plates on the sides, and the five large ones of the middle, of the carapace of the sea turtle, which yield the best tortoise shell. De Colange.

See Carapace.

To utter rapidly, idly, or indistinctly. Begin his witless note apace to chatter. Spenser.

re mostly marine, and usually have a broad, short body, covered with a strong shell or carapace. The abdomen is small and curled up beneath the body.

To fade away; to fall to nothing; to lose power. The charm dissolves apace. Shak.

(Paleon.) The reflexed margin of the trilobite carapace.

Over the stomach; -- applied to two of the areas of the carapace of crabs. Epigastric region. (Anat.) (a) The whole upper part of the abdomen. (b) An arbitrary division of the abdomen above the umbilical and between the two hypochondriac regions.

To hie. [Obs.] Men must high them apace, and make haste. Holland.

To a great extent in apace; as, a long drawn out line.

-- Masked crab (Zoöl.), a European crab (Corystes cassivelaunus) with markings on the carapace somewhat resembling a human face. -- Masked pig (Zoöl.), a Japanese domestic hog (Sus pliciceps). Its face is deeply furrowed.

Of or pertaining to a region of the carapace of a crab covering the middle branchial region.

Of or pertaining to the middle gastric lobe of the carapace of a crab.

Of or pertaining to the lobe of the carapace of crabs covering the posterior branchiæ.

Of or pertaining to the two posterior gastric lobes of the carapace of crabs.

back, or nape, of the neck; -- applied especially to the anterior median plate in the carapace of turtles.

The part of the carapace of a crustacean situated behind the cervical groove.

ciated with the Muses, and with ideas of poetic inspiration. Each spurs his jaded Pegasus apace. Byron.