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Webster Dictionary :: Aphorism
APH'ORISM, n. [Gr. determination, distinction; from to separate.] A maxim; a pre...
Webster Dictionary :: Aphony
APH'ONY, n. [Gr. voice.] A loss of voice; a palsy of the tongue; dumbness; catal...
Webster Dictionary :: Aphlogistic
APHLOGIS'TIC, a. [Gr. inflammable.] Flameless; as an aphlogistic lamp, in which ...
Webster Dictionary :: Aphis
A'PHIS, n. In zoology, the puceron, vine fretter, or plant-louse; a genus of ins...
Webster Dictionary :: Aphilanthropy
APHILAN'THROPY, n. [of a neg. and to love, and man.] Want of love to mankind. In...
Webster Dictionary :: Aphidivorous
APHIDIV'OROUS, a. [of aphis, the puceron or vine fretter, and voro, to eat.] Eat...
Webster Dictionary :: Apheresis
APHERE'SIS, n. [Gr. from, and to take.] 1. The taking of a litter or syllable fr...
Webster Dictionary :: Aphelion
APHE'LION, n. [Gr. from, and the sun.] That point of a planet's orbit which is m...
Webster Dictionary :: Aphanite
APH'ANITE, n. [Gr. to appear.] In mineralogy, compact amphibole in a particular ...
Webster Dictionary :: Apexes
A'PICES, A'PEXES. [See Apex , and Anther.]
Webster Dictionary :: Apex
A'PEX, n. plu. apexes. [L. apex, plu. apices.] The tip, point of summit of any t...
Webster Dictionary :: Apetalousness
APET'ALOUSNESS, n. A state of being without petals.
Webster Dictionary :: Apetalous
APET'ALOUS, a. [Gr. a flower-leaf or petal.] In botany, having no petals, or flo...
Webster Dictionary :: Aperture
AP'ERTURE, n. 1. The act of opening; more generally, an opening; a gap, cleft or...
Webster Dictionary :: Apertor
APERT'OR, n. A muscle that raises the upper eye lid.
Webster Dictionary :: Apertness
APERT'NESS, n. [L. apertus.] Openness. [Rarely used.]
