{ } a. [ Gr. 'amfi` + tre`pein to turn. ] (Bot.) Having the ovule inverted, but with the attachment near the middle of one side; half anatropous. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } 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 ]

. Paralysis of the facial nerve, producing distortion of one side of the face. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

a. [ Pref. bi- + palmate. ] (Bot.) Palmately branched, with the branches again palmated. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ From Carpus. ] (Anat.) Of or pertaining to the carpus, or wrist. -- n. One of the bones or cartilages of the carpus; a carpale. [ 1913 Webster ]

Carpal angle (Zool.), the angle at the last joint of the folded wing of a bird. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n.; pl. Carpalia [ NL., fr. E. carpus. ] (Anat.) One of the bones or cartilages of the carpus; esp. one of the series articulating with the metacarpals. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. chlwro`s light green + E. opal. ] (Min.) A massive mineral, greenish in color, and opal-like in appearance. It is essentially a hydrous silicate of iron. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Pertaining to a chorepiscopus or his charge or authority. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ n., [ Sp. & Pg. coco cocoanut, in Sp. also, cocoa palm. The Portuguese name is said to have been given from the monkeylike face at the base of the nut, fr. Pg. coco a bugbear, an ugly mask to frighten children. Cf., however, Gr. koy^ki the cocoa palm and its fruit, ko`i:x, ko`i:kos, a kind of Egyptian palm. ] (Bot.) A tall palm tree producing the cocoanut (Cocos nucifera) as its fruit. It grows in nearly all tropical countries, attaining a height of sixty or eighty feet. The trunk is without branches, and has a tuft of leaves at the top, each being fifteen or twenty feet in length, and at the base of these the nuts hang in clusters; the cocoanut tree. It is widely planted throughout the tropics, and in some locations as an ornamental tree. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ n. or } See Cocoa. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ n., or }. [ Prob. fr. a native name in Honduras. ] A Central and South American pinnate-leaved palm (Attalea cohune), the very large and hard nuts of which are turned to make fancy articles, and also yield an oil used as a substitute for coconut oil. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

[ Sp., fr. Mexican copalli, a generic name of resins. Clavigero. ] A resinous substance flowing spontaneously from trees of Zanzibar, Madagascar, and South America (Trachylobium Hornemannianum, Trachylobium verrucosum, and Hymenæa Courbaril), and dug from earth where forests have stood in Africa; -- used chiefly in making varnishes. Ure. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The yellowish, fragrant balsam yielded by the sweet gum; also, the tree itself. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

a. [ F. contre-palé. ] (Her.) Paly, and then divided fesswise, so that each vertical piece is cut into two, having the colors used alternately or counterchanged. Thus the escutcheon in the illustration may also be blazoned paly of six per fess counterchanged argent and azure. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. [ See Spale & Spall. ] (Shipbuilding) One of the temporary wooden braces, placed horizontally across a frame to hold it in position until the deck beams are in; a cross-pawl. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Croupy. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Pref. di- + sepalous. ] (Bot.) Having two sepals; two-sepaled. [ 1913 Webster ]

[ Ar. daum, dūm: cf. F. doume. ] (Bot.) A species of palm tree (Hyphæne Thebaica), highly valued for the fibrous pulp of its fruit, which has the flavor of gingerbread, and is largely eaten in Egypt and Abyssinia. [ Written also doum palm. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

See Doom palm. [ 1913 Webster ]

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

a. [ L. ectypus worked in high relief, Gr. &unr_;; out + &unr_; stamp, figure. See Type. ] Copied, reproduced as a molding or cast, in contradistinction from the original model. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ Pref. em- (L. in) + pale: cf. OF. empalir. ] To make pale. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

No bloodless malady empales their face. G. Fletcher. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Empaled p. pr. & vb. n. Empaling. ] [ OF. empaler to palisade, pierce, F. empaler to punish by empalement; pref. em- (L. in) + OF. & F. pal a pale, stake. See Pale a stake, and cf. Impale. ] [ Written also impale. ] 1. To fence or fortify with stakes; to surround with a line of stakes for defense; to impale. [ 1913 Webster ]

All that dwell near enemies empale villages, to save themselves from surprise. Sir W. Raleigh. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To inclose; to surround. See Impale. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To put to death by thrusting a sharpened stake through the body. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Her.) Same as Impale. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. empalement, fr. empaler. See Empale. ] [ Written also impalement. ] 1. A fencing, inclosing, or fortifying with stakes. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A putting to death by thrusting a sharpened stake through the body. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Her.) Same as Impalement. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Pref. e- + palpus. ] (Zoöl.) Without palpi. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. episcopalis, fr. episcopus: cf. F. épiscopal. See Bishop. ] 1. Governed by bishops; as, an episcopal church. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Belonging to, or vested in, bishops; as, episcopal jurisdiction or authority; the episcopal system. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Pertaining to bishops, or government by bishops; episcopal; specifically, of or relating to the Protestant Episcopal Church. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who belongs to an episcopal church, or adheres to the episcopal form of church government and discipline; a churchman; specifically, in the United States, a member of the Protestant Episcopal Church. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The doctrine and usages of Episcopalians; episcopacy. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. By episcopal authority; in an episcopal manner. [ 1913 Webster ]