Full fresh and new here gear apiked was.
Chaucer.
A"pi*ol (&?;), n. [L. apium parsley + -ol.] (Med.) An oily liquid derived from parsley.
A`pi*ol"o*gist (&?;), n. [L. apis bee + -logist (see -logy).] A student of bees. [R.] Emerson.
||A"pis (&?;), n. [L., bee.] (Zoöl.) A genus of insects of the order Hymenoptera, including the common honeybee (Apis mellifica) and other related species. See Honeybee.
Ap"ish (&?;), a. Having the qualities of an ape; prone to imitate in a servile manner. Hence: Apelike; fantastically silly; foppish; affected; trifling.
The apish gallantry of a fantastic boy.
Sir W. Scott.
Ap"ish*ly, adv. In an apish manner; with servile imitation; foppishly.
Ap"ish*ness, n. The quality of being apish; mimicry; foppery.
A*pit"pat, adv. [Pref. a- + pitpat.] With quick beating or palpitation; pitapat. Congreve.
Ap`la*cen"tal, a. [Pref. a- + placental.] Belonging to the Aplacentata; without placenta.
||Ap`la*cen*ta"ta, n. pl. [Pref. a- not + placenta.] (Zoöl.) Mammals which have no placenta.
||Ap`la*coph"o*ra (&?;), n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. 'a priv. + &?; a flat cake + &?; to bear.] (Zoöl.) A division of Amphineura in which the body is naked or covered with slender spines or setæ, but is without shelly plates.
Ap`la*nat"ic (&?;), a. [Gr. 'a priv. + &?; disposed to wander, wandering, &?; to wander.] (Opt.) Having two or more parts of different curvatures, so combined as to remove spherical aberration; -- said of a lens.
Aplanatic focus of a lens (Opt.), the point or focus from which rays diverging pass the lens without spherical aberration. In certain forms of lenses there are two such foci; and it is by taking advantage of this fact that the best aplanatic object glasses of microscopes are constructed.
A*plan"a*tism (&?;), n. Freedom from spherical aberration.
A*plas"tic (&?;), a. [Pref. a- not + plastic.] Not plastic or easily molded.
||A`plomb" (&?;), n. [F., lit. perpendicularity; &?; to + plomb lead. See Plumb.] Assurance of manner or of action; self-possession.
A*plot"o*my (&?;), n. [Gr. &?; simple + &?; a cutting.] (Surg.) Simple incision. Dunglison.
||A*plus"tre (&?;), n. [L., fr. Gr. &?;.] (Rom. Antiq.) An ornamental appendage of wood at the ship's stern, usually spreading like a fan and curved like a bird's feather. Audsley.
||A*plys"i*a (&?;), n. [Gr. &?; a dirty sponge, fr. &?; unwashed; 'a priv. + &?; to wash.] (Zoöl.) A genus of marine mollusks of the order Tectibranchiata; the sea hare. Some of the species when disturbed throw out a deep purple liquor, which colors the water to some distance. See Illust. in Appendix.
||Ap*neu"mo*na (&?;), n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. 'a priv. + &?;, &?;, a lung.] (Zoöl.) An order of holothurians in which the internal respiratory organs are wanting; -- called also Apoda or Apodes.
||Ap*nœ"a (&?;), n. [NL., fr. Gr. 'a priv. + &?;, &?;, breath, &?; to breathe, blow.] (Med.) Partial privation or suspension of breath; suffocation.
Ap"o (&?;). [Gr. &?;. See Ab-.] A prefix from a Greek preposition. It usually signifies from, away from, off, or asunder, separate; as, in apocope (a cutting off), apostate, apostle (one sent away), apocarpous.
A*poc"a*lypse (&?;), n. [L. apocalypsis, Gr. &?;, fr. &?; to uncover, to disclose; &?; from + &?; to cover, conceal: cf. F. apocalypse.] 1. The revelation delivered to St. John, in the isle of Patmos, near the close of the first century, forming the last book of the New Testament.