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{ } a. [ Gr. &unr_; up + &unr_; to turn. ] (Bot.) Having the ovule inverted at an early period in its development, so that the chalaza is as the apparent apex; -- opposed to orthotropous. Gray. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Opposed to the pope or to popery. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Pref. anti- + sepal. ] (Bot.) Standing before a sepal, or calyx leaf. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. [ Pref. anti- + Gr. &unr_; turn, &unr_; to turn. ] (Bot.) At the extremity most remote from the hilum, as the embryo, or inverted with respect to the seed, as the radicle. Lindley. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Antitypical. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. See Appalachian. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to a chain of mountains in the United States, commonly called the Allegheny mountains. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The name Appalachian was given to the mountains by the Spaniards under De Soto, who derived it from the neighboring Indians. Am. Cyc. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Appalled p. pr. & vb. n. Appalling. ] [ OF. appalir to grow pale, make pale; a (L. ad) + pâlir to grow pale, to make pale, pâle pale. See Pale, a., and cf. Pall. ] 1. To make pale; to blanch. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

The answer that ye made to me, my dear, . . .
Hath so appalled my countenance. Wyatt. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To weaken; to enfeeble; to reduce; as, an old appalled wight. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

Wine, of its own nature, will not congeal and freeze, only it will lose the strength, and become appalled in extremity of cold. Holland. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To depress or discourage with fear; to impress with fear in such a manner that the mind shrinks, or loses its firmness; to overcome with sudden terror or horror; to dismay; as, the sight appalled the stoutest heart. [ 1913 Webster ]

The house of peers was somewhat appalled at this alarum. Clarendon. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- To dismay; terrify; daunt; frighten; affright; scare; depress. See Dismay. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. 1. To grow faint; to become weak; to become dismayed or discouraged. [ Obs. ] Gower. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To lose flavor or become stale. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Terror; dismay. [ Poet. ] Cowper. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. struck with fear, dread, or consternation.
Syn. -- aghast(predicate), dismayed, shocked. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

a. Such as to appall; as, an appalling accident. -- Ap*pall"ing*ly, adv. [1913 Webster]

n. Depression occasioned by terror; dismay. [ Obs. ] Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. a hardy breed of horse developed in western North America and characteristically having a spotted rump. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adj. 1. of or pertaining to an archbishop. an archepiscopal see
Syn. -- archiepiscopal [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. Of or pertaining to an archetype; consisting a model (real or ideal) or pattern; original. “One archetypal mind.” Gudworth. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Among Platonists, the archetypal world is the world as it existed as an idea of God before the creation. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. With reference to the archetype; originally. “Parts archetypally distinct.” Dana. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Pref. archi- + episcopal. ] Of or pertaining to an archbishop; as, Canterbury is an archiepiscopal see. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The station or dignity of an archbishop; archiepiscopacy. Fuller. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. 1 the olfactory cortex of the cerebrum.
Syn. -- paleocortex [ WordNet 1.5 ]

‖n. [ L. aspalathus, Gr. &unr_;. ] (Bot.) (a) A thorny shrub yielding a fragrant oil. Ecclus. xxiv. 15. (b) A genus of plants of the natural order Leguminosæ. The species are chiefly natives of the Cape of Good Hope. [ 1913 Webster ]