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Fit or fitted; suited; suitable; appropriate. They have always apt instruments. Burke. A river . . . apt to be forded by a lamb. Jer. Taylor.

Capable of being adapted. [Obs.] Sherwood.

To make fit. [Obs.] Bailey

Insects without wings, constituting the seventh Linnæn order of insects, an artificial group, which included Crustacea, spiders, centipeds, and even worms. These animals are now placed in several distinct classes and orders.

Apterous.

One of the Aptera.

Naked spaces between the feathered areas of birds. See Pteryliæ.

Destitute of wings; apteral; as, apterous insects.

An order of birds, including the genus Apteryx.

A genus of New Zealand birds about the size of a hen, with only short rudiments of wings, armed with a claw and without a tail; the kiwi. It is allied to the gigantic extinct moas of the same country. Five species are known.

ty for a particular purpose, or tendency to a particular action or effect; as, oil has an aptitude to burn. He seems to have had a peculiar aptitude for the management of irregular troops. Macaulay.

Suitable; fit. [Obs.]

In an apt or suitable manner; fitly; properly; pertinently; appropriately; readily.

Fitness; suitableness; appropriateness; as, the aptness of things to their end. The aptness of his quotations. J. R. Green.

A noun which has no distinction of cases; an indeclinable noun.

Pertaining to, or characterized by, aptotes; uninflected; as, aptotic languages.

A shelly plate found in the terminal chambers of ammonite shells. Some authors consider them to be jaws; others, opercula.

A phrase used adjectively sometimes of meretricious attempts to catch or win popular favor.

se; -- sometimes followed by to or for. For nature, always in the right, To your decays adapts my sight. Swift. Appeals adapted to his [man's] whole nature. Angus. Streets ill adapted for the residence of wealthy persons. Macaulay.

The quality of being adaptable; suitableness. "General adaptability for every purpose." Farrar.