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. (Physics & Chem.) a particle emitted at high velocity from certain radioactive substances. It is identical to the helium nucleus, consisting of two protons and two neutrons. Rays of such particles are called alpha rays. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. +PJC ]

a. [ L. ambo both + parere to bring forth. ] (Bot.) Characterized by containing the rudiments of both flowers and leaves; -- applied to a bud. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. & i. 1. to park (a road vehicle) at an angle to the curb; -- contrasted with parallel-park. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. Running in a contrary direction. Hammond. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. pl. (Geom.) Straight lines or planes which make angles in some respect opposite in character to those made by parallel lines or planes. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Med.) Good against paralysis. -- n. A medicine for paralysis. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Antiparalytic. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Physics) A fundamental particle which has the same mass as one of the common fundamental particles, but which has an opposite charge, and for which certain other of the properties (e. g. baryon number, strangeness) may be opposite to that of the normal particle. The antiparticle to an electron is called a positron; the antiparticle to a proton is called an antiproton; the antiparticle to a neutron is called an antineutron. When a particle and its corresponding antiparticle collide, they typically annihilate each other with the production of large quantities of energy, usually in the form of radiation. The interaction of a proton and antiproton cause annihilation with production of mesons. [ PJC ]

‖/mhw>, n. [ Native name apara. ] (Zool.) See Mataco. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ Sp. ] A kind of pack saddle used in the American military service and among the Spanish Americans. It is made of leather stuffed with hay, moss, or the like. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ Gr. &unr_;, from &unr_; to count off or over. ] (Rhet.) Enumeration of parts or particulars. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. [ F. à part; (L. ad) + part part. See Part. ] 1. Separately, in regard to space or company; in a state of separation as to place; aside. [ 1913 Webster ]

Others apart sat on a hill retired. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

The Lord hath set apart him that is godly for himself. Ps. iv. 3. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Aside; away. “Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness.” Jas. i. 21. [ 1913 Webster ]

Let Pleasure go, put Care apart. Keble. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. In two or more parts; asunder; to piece; as, to take a piece of machinery apart. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Afrikaans, fr. D. apart apart + -heid -hood. ] 1. segregation by race; -- a term used in South Africa.
Syn. -- racial segregation [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. the official policy of strict segregation by race practised by the government of the Union of South Africa up to 1993. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ F. appartement; cf. It. appartamento, fr. appartare to separate, set apart; all fr. L. ad + pars, partis, part. See Apart. ] 1. A room in a building; a division in a house, separated from others by partitions. Fielding. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A set or suite of rooms. De Quincey. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A compartment. [ Obs. ] Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. A room or suite of rooms in a building comprising a dwelling unit separate from others in the building, and typically having its own separate bath, sanitary, and kitchen facilities. Such apartments are in most cases rented from the owner by those dwelling in them. [ PJC ]

efficiency apartment, a small apartment{ 4 }, sometimes furnished, with minimal kitchen and bath facilities. The unit may comprise a single room plus a bathroom, and the kitchen facilities are often open to the main room, or may form a small niche in a corner. There are many variations of efficiency apartment, including some in which furnishings such as a bed may be pull out from a wall recess and stored there again when not in use. Also called an efficiency. [ PJC ]

. A building comprising a number of lving units (apartments{ 4 }) designed for separate housekeeping tenements, but having conveniences, such as heat, light, elevator service, etc., furnished in common; contrasted to a detached dwelling. Sometimes distinguished in the United States from a flat house, in which each living unit comprises one entire floor, whereas in an apartment house a floor may be partitioned into any number of apartments{ 4 }. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. +PJC ]

n. The quality of standing apart. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Apparel, n. & v. ] Preparation. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Apparatus, also rarely Apparatuses [ L., from apparare, apparatum, to prepare; ad + prepare to make ready. ] 1. Things provided as means to some end. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Hence: A full collection or set of implements, or utensils, for a given duty, experimental or operative; any complex instrument or appliance, mechanical or chemical, for a specific action or operation; machinery; mechanism. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Physiol.) A collection of organs all of which unite in a common function; as, the respiratory apparatus. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. apparel, apareil, OF. apareil, appareil, preparation, provision, furniture, OF. apareiller to match, prepare, F. appareiller; OF. a (L. ad) + pareil like, similar, fr. LL. pariculus, dim. of L. par equal. See Pair. ] 1. External clothing; vesture; garments; dress; garb; external habiliments or array. [ 1913 Webster ]

Fresh in his new apparel, proud and young. Denham. [ 1913 Webster ]

At public devotion his resigned carriage made religion appear in the natural apparel of simplicity. Tatler. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A small ornamental piece of embroidery worn on albs and some other ecclesiastical vestments. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Naut.) The furniture of a ship, as masts, sails, rigging, anchors, guns, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Dress; clothing; vesture; garments; raiment; garb; costume; attire; habiliments. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Appareled, or Apparelled p. pr. & vb. n. Appareling, or Apparelling. ] [ OF. apareiller. ] 1. To make or get (something) ready; to prepare. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To furnish with apparatus; to equip; to fit out. [ 1913 Webster ]

Ships . . . appareled to fight. Hayward. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To dress or clothe; to attire. [ 1913 Webster ]

They which are gorgeously appareled, and live delicately, are in kings' courts. Luke vii. 25. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To dress with external ornaments; to cover with something ornamental; to deck; to embellish; as, trees appareled with flowers, or a garden with verdure. [ 1913 Webster ]

Appareled in celestial light. Wordsworth. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. 1 wearing clothes. the elegantly appareled gentleman
Syn. -- attired, clad, dressed, garbed, garmented, habilimented, robed. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ OF. aparence. ] Appearance. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. Appearance. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Apparentness; state of being apparent. Coleridge. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The position of being heir apparent. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ F. apparent, L. apparens, -entis, p. pr. of apparere. See Appear. ] 1. Capable of being seen, or easily seen; open to view; visible to the eye; within sight or view. [ 1913 Webster ]

The moon . . . apparent queen. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Clear or manifest to the understanding; plain; evident; obvious; known; palpable; indubitable. [ 1913 Webster ]

It is apparent foul play. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Appearing to the eye or mind (distinguished from, but not necessarily opposed to, true or real); seeming; as the apparent motion or diameter of the sun. [ 1913 Webster ]

To live on terms of civility, and even of apparent friendship. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

What Berkeley calls visible magnitude was by astronomers called apparent magnitude. Reid. [ 1913 Webster ]

Apparent horizon, the circle which in a level plain bounds our view, and is formed by the apparent meeting of the earth and heavens, as distinguished from the rational horizon. --
Apparent time. See Time. --
Heir apparent (Law), one whose to an estate is indefeasible if he survives the ancestor; -- in distinction from presumptive heir. See Presumptive. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Visible; distinct; plain; obvious; clear; certain; evident; manifest; indubitable; notorious. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. An heir apparent. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

I'll draw it [ the sword ] as apparent to the crown. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. 1. Visibly. [ Obs. ] Hobbes. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Plainly; clearly; manifestly; evidently. [ 1913 Webster ]

If he should scorn me so apparently. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Seemingly; in appearance; as, a man may be apparently friendly, yet malicious in heart. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Plainness to the eye or the mind; visibleness; obviousness. [ R. ] Sherwood. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. apparition, L. apparitio, fr. apparere. See Appear. ] 1. The act of becoming visible; appearance; visibility. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

The sudden apparition of the Spaniards. Prescott. [ 1913 Webster ]

The apparition of Lawyer Clippurse occasioned much speculation in that portion of the world. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The thing appearing; a visible object; a form. [ 1913 Webster ]

Which apparition, it seems, was you. Tatler. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. An unexpected, wonderful, or preternatural appearance; a ghost; a specter; a phantom. “The heavenly bands . . . a glorious apparition.” Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

I think it is the weakness of mine eyes
That shapes this monstrous apparition. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Astron.) The first appearance of a star or other luminary after having been invisible or obscured; -- opposed to occultation. [ 1913 Webster ]

Circle of perpetual apparition. See under Circle. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Pertaining to an apparition or to apparitions; spectral. “An apparitional soul.” Tylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L., fr. apparere. See Appear. ] 1. Formerly, an officer who attended magistrates and judges to execute their orders. [ 1913 Webster ]

Before any of his apparitors could execute the sentence, he was himself summoned away by a sterner apparitor to the other world. De Quincey. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Law) A messenger or officer who serves the process of an ecclesiastical court. Bouvier. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. aqua water + parere to bring forth. ] (Med.) Secreting water; -- applied to certain glands. Dunglison. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. 1 one of many families or subfamilies into which some classification systems subdivide the Liliaceae: includes genera Asparagus and sometimes Ruscus.
Syn. -- family Asparagaceae. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ Cf. F. asparagine. ] (Chem.) A white, nitrogenous, crystallizable substance, C4H8N2O3+H2O, found in many plants, and first obtained from asparagus. It is believed to aid in the disposition of nitrogenous matter throughout the plant; -- called also altheine. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Pertaining or allied to, or resembling, asparagus; having shoots which are eaten like asparagus; as, asparaginous vegetables. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L., fr. Gr. 'aspa`ragos, 'asfa`ragos; cf. sparga^n to swell with sap or juice, and Zend çparegha prong, sprout, Pers. asparag, Lith. spurgas sprout, Skr. sphurj to swell. Perh. the Greek borrowed from the Persian. Cf. Sparrowgrass. ] 1. (Bot.) A genus of perennial plants belonging to the natural order Liliaceæ, and having erect much branched stems, and very slender branchlets which are sometimes mistaken for leaves. Asparagus racemosus is a shrubby climbing plant with fragrant flowers. Specifically: The Asparagus officinalis, a species cultivated in gardens. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The young and tender shoots of Asparagus officinalis, which form a valuable and well-known article of food. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ This word was formerly pronounced sparrowgrass; but this pronunciation is now confined exclusively to uneducated people. [ 1913 Webster ]

Asparagus beetle (Zool.), a small beetle (Crioceris asparagi) injurious to asparagus. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. an artificial sweetener containing an aspartic acid peptide, (C14H18N2O5); it is 160 times sweeter than sucrose (cane sugar) and is used as a calorie-free sweetener. Chemically it is N-L-α-aspartyl-L-phenylalanine-1-methyl ester. It is sold also under the trade name Equal. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. (Chem.) Pertaining to, or derived, asparagine; as, aspartic acid. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Pref. bi- + parietal. ] (Anat.) Of or pertaining to the diameter of the cranium, from one parietal fossa to the other. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. bis twice + parere to bring forth. ] Bringing forth two at a birth. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. F. bipartible. See Bipartite. ] Capable of being divided into two parts. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. bis twice + partiens, p. pr. of partire to divide. ] Dividing into two parts. -- n. A number that divides another into two equal parts without a remainder. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Divisible into two parts. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. bipartitus, p. p. of bipartire; bis twice + partire. See Partite. ] 1. Being in two parts; having two correspondent parts, as a legal contract or writing, one for each party; shared by two; as, a bipartite treaty. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Divided into two parts almost to the base, as a leaf; consisting of two parts or subdivisions. Gray. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of dividing into two parts, or of making two correspondent parts, or the state of being so divided. [ 1913 Webster ]

(Zool.) The name of several very beautiful birds of the genus Paradisea and allied genera, inhabiting New Guinea and the adjacent islands. The males have brilliant colors, elegant plumes, and often remarkable tail feathers. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The Great emerald (Paradisea apoda) and the Lesser emerald (Paradisea minor) furnish many of the plumes used as ornaments by ladies; the Red bird of paradise is Paradisea rubra or Paradisea sanguinea; the Golden bird of paradise is Parotia aurea or Parotia sexsetacea; the King bird of paradise is Cincinnurus regius. The name is also applied to the longer-billed birds of another related group (Epimachinæ) from the same region. The Twelve-wired bird of paradise (Seleucides alba) is one of these. See Paradise bird, and Note under Apod. [ 1913 Webster ]

A common name of dolomite; -- so called because it contains magnesia, the soluble salts of which are bitter. See Dolomite. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to Napoleon Bonaparte or his family. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The policy of Bonaparte or of the Bonapartes. [ 1913 Webster ]