Agape :: Agape (adv. & a.) Gaping, as with wonder, expectation, or eager attention..
Agape :: Agape (n.) The love feast of the primitive Christians, being a meal partaken of in connection with the communion..
Anapest :: Anapest (n.) A metrical foot consisting of three syllables, the first two short, or unaccented, the last long, or accented (/ / -); the reverse of the dactyl. In Latin d/-/-tas, and in English in-ter-vene#, are examples of anapests..
Anapest :: Anapest (n.) A verse composed of such feet.
Anapestic :: Anapestic (a.) Pertaining to an anapest; consisting of an anapests; as, an anapestic meter, foot, verse..
Anapestic :: Anapestic (n.) Anapestic measure or verse.
Antechapel :: Antechapel (n.) The outer part of the west end of a collegiate or other chapel.
Ape :: Ape (n.) A quadrumanous mammal, esp. of the family Simiadae, having teeth of the same number and form as in man, and possessing neither a tail nor cheek pouches. The name is applied esp. to species of the genus Hylobates, and is sometimes used as a general term for all Quadrumana. The higher forms, the gorilla, chimpanzee, and ourang, are often called anthropoid apes or man apes..
Ape :: Ape (n.) One who imitates servilely (in allusion to the manners of the ape); a mimic.
Ape :: Ape (v. t.) To mimic, as an ape imitates human actions; to imitate or follow servilely or irrationally..
Apeak :: Apeak (adv. & a.) In a vertical line. The anchor in apeak, when the cable has been sufficiently hove in to bring the ship over it, and the ship is them said to be hove apeak..