Dazzles the crowd and sets them all agape. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A verse composed of such feet. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The ape of the Old Testament was probably the rhesus monkey of India, and allied forms. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. One who imitates servilely (in allusion to the manners of the ape); a mimic. Byron. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A dupe. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

The people of England will not ape the fashions they have never tried. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. An opening; an open space; a gap, cleft, or chasm; a passage perforated; a hole; as, an aperture in a wall. [ 1913 Webster ]

An aperture between the mountains. Gilpin. [ 1913 Webster ]

The back aperture of the nostrils. Owen. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Opt.) The diameter of the exposed part of the object glass of a telescope or other optical instrument; as, a telescope of four-inch aperture. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The aperture of microscopes is often expressed in degrees, called also the angular aperture, which signifies the angular breadth of the pencil of light which the instrument transmits from the object or point viewed; as, a microscope of 100° aperture. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The practice of aping; an apish action. Coleridge. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Mining) The end or edge of a vein nearest the surface. [ U.S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Apex of the earth's motion (Astron.), that point of the heavens toward which the earth is moving in its orbit. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. a tape recording of sound. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. (Nat. Hist.) Subulate. See Subulate. Gray. [ 1913 Webster ]