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a. [ L. Aesopius, from Gr. &unr_;, fr. the famous Greek fabulist Æsop ] Of or pertaining to Æsop, or in his manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. [ F.: cf. Sp. & Pg. alpiste. ] The seed of canary grass (Phalaris Canariensis), used for feeding cage birds. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ ‖ } n. [ Gr. 'amblywpi`a; 'ambly`s blunt, dim + 'w`ps eye: cf. F. amblyopie. ] (Med.) Weakness of sight, without any detectable organic lesion. [ 1913 Webster + AS ]

‖n. [ Gr. 'a`metros irregular + 'w`ps, 'wpo`s, eye. ] (Med.) A visual impairment resulting from faulty refraction of light rays in the eye. Subtypes include myopia astigmatism and hyperopia. -- Am`e*trop"ic a. AS [1913 Webster +PJC]

‖n. [ NL., fr. Gr. &unr_; + &unr_; measure + &unr_;, &unr_;, eye. ] Unequal refractive power in the two eyes. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

{ ‖ } a. [ Gr. 'an priv. + 'o`psis sight. ] (Med.) Defect or absence of sight; blindness. [ 1913 Webster + AS ]

‖n. [ NL., fr. Gr. 'an priv. + ortho- + Gr. 'w`ps, 'wpo`s, the eye. ] (Med.) Distorted vision, in which straight lines appear bent. AS [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

prop. n. (Geography) The capital city of Samoa. Population (2000) = 32, 859. [ PJC ]

prop. n. A natural family of plants bearing flowers in umbels; examples are: parsley; carrot; anise; caraway; celery; dill.
Syn. -- Umbelliferae, family Umbelliferae, family Apiaceae, carrot family [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. (Bot.) Umbelliferous. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Belonging to bees. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or relating to bees. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who keeps an apiary. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. apiarium, fr. apis bee. ] A place where bees are kept; a stand or shed for bees; a beehouse. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. Appius, Appianus. ] Of or pertaining to Appius. [ 1913 Webster ]

Appian Way, the great paved highway from ancient Rome trough Capua to Brundisium, now Brindisi, constructed partly by Appius Claudius, about 312 b. c. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Gr. & L. Pros.) A choriambic verse, first used by the Greek poet Asclepias, consisting of four feet, viz., a spondee, two choriambi, and an iambus. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a widely distributed family of herbs and shrubs most with milky juice; examples are the milkweeds (genus Asclepias). [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

a. [ See Asclepias. ] (Bot.) Of, pertaining to, or resembling, plants of the Milkweed family. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖ n. [ L., fr. Gr. &unr_;, named from Asclepios or Aesculapius. ] (Bot.) A genus of plants including the milkweed, swallowwort, and some other species having medicinal properties. [ 1913 Webster ]

Asclepias butterfly (Zool.), a large, handsome, red and black butterfly (Danais Archippus), found in both hemispheres. It feeds on plants of the genus Asclepias. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ Gr. 'a priv. + sqe`nos strength + 'w`ps eye. ] Weakness of sight. Quain. -- As`the*nop"ic a. [1913 Webster]

n. Same as Atropine. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. [ Auto- + Gr. karpo`s fruit. ] (Bot.) Consisting of the ripened pericarp with no other parts adnate to it, as a peach, a poppy capsule, or a grape. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a callithump. [ U. S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ L. thou mayst take. ] (Low) A writ or process commanding the officer to take the body of the person named in it, that is, to arrest him; -- also called writ of capias. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ One principal kind of capias is a writ by which actions at law are frequently commenced; another is a writ of execution issued after judgment to satisfy damages recovered; a capias in criminal law is the process to take a person charged on an indictment, when he is not in custody. Burrill. Wharton. [ 1913 Webster ]

prop. n. A natural family of insects, in some classifications included in family Moraceae.
Syn. -- family Cecropiaceae. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. The act of sleeping, or of lulling, to sleep. [ Obs. ] Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Cornucopias [ L. cornu copiae horn of plenty. See Horn, and Copious. ] 1. The horn of plenty, from which fruits and flowers are represented as issuing. It is an emblem of abundance. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. pl. (Bot.) A genus of grasses bearing spikes of flowers resembling the cornucopia in form. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Some writers maintain that this word should be written, in the singular, cornu copiæ, and in the plural, cornua copiæ. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ ‖ } n. [ NL. diplopia, from Gr. &unr_; double + the root of &unr_; sight: cf. F. diplopie. ] (Med.) The act or state of seeing double. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ In crossed or heteronymous diplopia the image seen by the right eye is upon the left hand, and that seen by the left eye is upon the right hand. In homonymous diplopia the image seen by the right eye is on the right side, that by the left eye on the left side. In vertical diplopia one image stands above the other. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ NL., fr. Gr. 'ek out + &unr_; place. ] (Med.) A morbid displacement of parts, especially such as is congenial; as, ectopia of the heart, or of the bladder. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ NL., fr. Gr. 'e`mmetros in measure, proportioned, suitable ('en in + me`tron measure) + 'w`ps, 'wpo`s, eye. ] (Med.) That refractive condition of the eye in which the rays of light are all brought accurately and without undue effort to a focus upon the retina; -- opposed to hypermetropia, myopia, and astigmatism. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Saddle-shaped; occupying an ephippium. Dana. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Æsculapian. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. Same as Æsopian, Æsopic. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. Espial. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. & Norm. F. espiaille. See Espy. ] 1. The act of espying; notice; discovery. [ 1913 Webster ]

Screened from espial by the jutting cape. Byron. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. One who espies; a spy; a scout. [ Obs. ] “Their espials . . . brought word.” Holland. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ , n. [ L. Aethiops, Gr. &unr_;; &unr_; to burn + &unr_; face. ] A native or inhabitant of Ethiopia; also, in a general sense, a negro or black man.

{ } a. Of or relating to Ethiopia or the Ethiopians. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ See Expiate. ] Capable of being expiated or atoned for; as, an expiable offense; expiable guilt. Bp. Hall. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Expiated p. pr. & vb. n. Expiating ] [ L. expiatus, p. p. of expiare to expiate; ex out + piare to seek to appease, to purify with sacred rites, fr. pius pious. See Pious. ] 1. To extinguish the guilt of by sufferance of penalty or some equivalent; to make complete satisfaction for; to atone for; to make amends for; to make expiation for; as, to expiate a crime, a guilt, or sin. [ 1913 Webster ]

To expiate his treason, hath naught left. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

The Treasurer obliged himself to expiate the injury. Clarendon. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To purify with sacred rites. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Neither let there be found among you any one that shall expiate his son or daughter, making them to pass through the fire. Deut. xviii. 10 (Douay version) [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. expiatus, p. p ] Terminated. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. expiatio: cf.F. expiation ] 1. The act of making satisfaction or atonement for any crime or fault; the extinguishing of guilt by suffering or penalty. [ 1913 Webster ]

His liberality seemed to have something in it of self-abasement and expiation. W. Irving. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The means by which reparation or atonement for crimes or sins is made; an expiatory sacrifice or offering; an atonement. [ 1913 Webster ]

Those shadowy expiations weak,
The blood of bulls and goats. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. An act by which the threats of prodigies were averted among the ancient heathen. [ Obs. ] Hayward. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. An expiator. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. ] One who makes expiation or atonement. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of an expiatory nature; expiatory. Jer. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. expiatorius: cf. F. expiatoire. ] Having power, or intended, to make expiation; atoning; as, an expiatory sacrifice. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ From Fallopius, or Fallopio, a physician of Modena, who died in 1562. ] (Anat.) Pertaining to, or discovered by, Fallopius; as, the Fallopian tubes or oviducts, the ducts or canals which conduct the ova from the ovaries to the uterus. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ NL., fr. Gr. &unr_;, the opposite of &unr_;; &unr_; day + &unr_; of &unr_;. See Nyctalopia. ] (Med.) A disease of the eyes, in consequence of which a person can see clearly or without pain only by daylight or a strong artificial light; day sight. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Some writers (as Quain) use the word in the opposite sense, i. e., day blindness. See Nyctalopia. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ ‖ } n. [ NL., fr. Gr. &unr_; half + Gr. &unr_; sight. ] (Med.) A defect of vision in consequence of which a person sees but half of an object looked at. [ 1913 Webster ]