| Words | Parts of Speech | Meaning/Definition/Similar Words |
|---|---|---|
| apace | adverb | With a quick pace; quick; fast; speedily. |
| apaid | adjective | Paid; pleased. |
| apair | verb t. & i. | To impair or become impaired; to injure. |
| apara | noun | See Mataco. |
| apart | adverb | Separately, in regard to space or company; in a state of separation as to place; aside., In a state of separation, of exclusion, or of distinction, as to purpose, use, or character, or as a matter of thought; separately; independently; as, consider the two propositions apart., Aside; away., In two or more parts; asunder; to piece; as, to take a piece of machinery apart. |
| aping | present participle & vb. noun | of Ape |
| apeak | adverb & adjective | In a vertical line. The anchor in apeak, when the cable has been sufficiently hove in to bring the ship over it, and the ship is them said to be hove apeak. |
| apert | adjective | Open; evident; undisguised., Openly. |
| apery | noun | A place where apes are kept., The practice of aping; an apish action. |
| aphid | noun | One of the genus Aphis; an aphidian. |
| aphis | noun | A genus of insects belonging to the order Hemiptera and family Aphidae, including numerous species known as plant lice and green flies. |
| apian | adjective | Belonging to bees. |
| apiol | noun | An oily liquid derived from parsley. |
| apish | adjective | Having the qualities of an ape; prone to imitate in a servile manner. Hence: Apelike; fantastically silly; foppish; affected; trifling. |
| apods | plural | of Apode |
| apode | noun | One of certain animals that have no feet or footlike organs; esp. one of certain fabulous birds which were said to have no feet. |
| apoda | noun | A group of cirripeds, destitute of footlike organs., An order of Amphibia without feet. See Ophiomorpha., A group of worms without appendages, as the leech. |
| aport | adverb | On or towards the port or left side; — said of the helm. |
| appay | verb t. | To pay; to satisfy or appease. |
| apple | noun | The fleshy pome or fruit of a rosaceous tree (Pyrus malus) cultivated in numberless varieties in the temperate zones., Any tree genus Pyrus which has the stalk sunken into the base of the fruit; an apple tree., Any fruit or other vegetable production resembling, or supposed to resemble, the apple; as, apple of love, or love apple (a tomato), balsam apple, egg apple, oak apple., Anything round like an apple; as, an apple of gold., To grow like an apple; to bear apples. |
| apply | verb t. | To lay or place; to put or adjust (one thing to another); — with to; as, to apply the hand to the breast; to apply medicaments to a diseased part of the body., To put to use; to use or employ for a particular purpose, or in a particular case; to appropriate; to devote; as, to apply money to the payment of a debt., To make use of, declare, or pronounce, as suitable, fitting, or relative; as, to apply the testimony to the case; to apply an epithet to a person., To fix closely; to engage and employ diligently, or with attention; to attach; to incline., To direct or address., To betake; to address; to refer; — used reflexively., To busy; to keep at work; to ply., To visit., To suit; to agree; to have some connection, agreement, or analogy; as, this argument applies well to the case., To make request; to have recourse with a view to gain something; to make application. (to); to solicit; as, to apply to a friend for information., To ply; to move., To apply or address one’s self; to give application; to attend closely (to). |
| appui | noun | A support or supporter; a stay; a prop. |
| april | noun | The fourth month of the year., Fig.: With reference to April being the month in which vegetation begins to put forth, the variableness of its weather, etc. |
| apron | noun | An article of dress, of cloth, leather, or other stuff, worn on the fore part of the body, to keep the clothes clean, to defend them from injury, or as a covering. It is commonly tied at the waist by strings., Something which by its shape or use suggests an apron;, The fat skin covering the belly of a goose or duck., A piece of leather, or other material, to be spread before a person riding on an outside seat of a vehicle, to defend him from the rain, snow, or dust; a boot., A leaden plate that covers the vent of a cannon., A piece of carved timber, just above the foremost end of the keel., A platform, or flooring of plank, at the entrance of a dock, against which the dock gates are shut., A flooring of plank before a dam to cause the water to make a gradual descent., The piece that holds the cutting tool of a planer., A strip of lead which leads the drip of a wall into a gutter; a flashing., The infolded abdomen of a crab. |
| apsis | noun | One of the two points of an orbit, as of a planet or satellite, which are at the greatest and least distance from the central body, corresponding to the aphelion and perihelion of a planet, or to the apogee and perigee of the moon. The more distant is called the higher apsis; the other, the lower apsis; and the line joining them, the line of apsides., In a curve referred to polar coordinates, any point for which the radius vector is a maximum or minimum., Same as Apse. |
| aptly | adverb | In an apt or suitable manner; fitly; properly; pertinently; appropriately; readily. |