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One who apes.

A first view or glance, or the perception or estimation so obtained; an immediate apprehension or insight, appreciative rather than analytic.

The wild Guinea pig of Brazil (Cavia aperea).

An aperient medicine or food. Arbuthnot.

Serving to open; aperient. Harvey.

Open; ev [Archaic] Fotherby.

The act of opening; an opening; an aperture. [Archaic] Wiseman.

Openly; clearly. [Archaic]

Openness; frankness. [Archaic]

An opening; an open space; a gap, cleft, or chasm; a passage perforated; a hole; as, an aperture in a wall. An aperture between the mountains. Gilpin. The back aperture of the nostrils. Owen.

A place where apes are kept. [R.] Kingsley.

A sensitized paper for obtaining positives by artificial light. It is coated with gelatin containing silver bromide and chloride. [Eng.]

Paper impregnated with saltpeter. The fumes from the burning paper are often inhaled as an alleviative by asthmatics.

A deciduous plant of warm climates, generally with fleshy leaves and flowers of a yellow or whitish yellow color, of the genus Zygophyllum.

A kind of thick, bibulous, unsized paper, used to absorb superfluous ink from freshly written manuscript, and thus prevent blots.

A sensitized paper coated with gelatin impregnated with bromide of silver, used in contact printing and in enlarging.

To leap or jump about in a sprightly manner; to cut capers; to skip; to spring; to prance; to dance. He capers, he dances, he has eyes of youth. Shak.

See Capper, a plant, 2.

The small olive-shaped berry of the European and Oriental caper, said to be used in pickles and as a condiment.

orthern Europe and formerly in Scotland; -- called also cock of the woods. [Written also capercaillie, capercaili.]