Part 531

<h1>Aphesis</h1> <Xpage=68>

<hw>Aph"e*sis</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Gr. <?/ a letting go; <?/ + <?/ to let go.]</ety> <def>The loss of a short unaccented vowel at the beginning of a word; -- the result of a phonetic process; <as>as, <ex>squire</ex> for <ex>esquire</ex></as>.</def>

<i>New Eng. Dict.</i>

<h1>Aphetic</h1> <Xpage=68>

<hw>A*phet"ic</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[Gr. <?/ letting go, fr. <?/ to let go.]</ety> <def>Shortened by dropping a letter or a syllable from the beginning of a word; <as>as, an <ex>aphetic</ex> word or form</as>.</def> -- <wordforms><wf>A*phet"ic*al*ly</wf>, <tt>adv.</tt></wordforms>

<i>New Eng. Dict.</i>

<h1>Aphetism</h1> <Xpage=68>

<hw>Aph"e*tism</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>An aphetized form of a word.</def>

<i>New Eng. Dict.</i>

<h1>Aphetize</h1> <Xpage=68>

<hw>Aph"e*tize</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <def>To shorten by aphesis.</def>

<blockquote>These words . . . have been <b>aphetized</b>. <i>New Eng. Dict.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Aphid</h1> <Xpage=68>

<hw>A"phid</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld> <def>One of the genus Aphis; an aphidian.</def>

<h1>Aphides</h1> <Xpage=68>

<hw>Aph"i*des</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>n. pl.</tt> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld> <def>See <er>Aphis</er>.</def>

<h1>Aphidian</h1> <Xpage=68>

<hw>A*phid"i*an</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld> <def>Of or pertaining to the family <spn>Aphid\'91</spn>.</def> -- <def2><tt>n.</tt> <def> One of the aphides; an aphid.</def></def2>

<h1>Aphidivorous</h1> <Xpage=68>

<hw>Aph`i*div"o*rous</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>. <ety>[<ets>Aphis</ets> + L. <ets>vorare</ets> to devour.]</ety> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld> <def>Devouring aphides; aphidophagous.</def>

<h1>Aphidophagous</h1> <Xpage=68>

<hw>Aph`i*doph"a*gous</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[<ets>Aphis</ets> + Gr. <?/ to eat.]</ety> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld> <def>Feeding upon aphides, or plant lice, as do beetles of the family <spn>Coccinellid\'91</spn>.</def>

<h1>Aphilanthropy</h1> <Xpage=68>

<hw>Aph`i*lan"thro*py</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Gr. <?/ not loving man; <?/ priv. + <?/ to love + <?/ man.]</ety> <def>Want of love to mankind; -- the opposite of <i>philanthropy</i>.</def>

<i>Coxe.</i>

<h1>Aphis</h1> <Xpage=68>

<hw>A"phis</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt>; <plu>pl. <plw>Aphides</plw> <tt>(#)</tt></plu>. <ety>[NL.]</ety> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld> <def>A genus of insects belonging to the order Hemiptera and family <spn>Aphid\'91</spn>, including numerous species known as plant lice and green flies.</def>

<note>&hand; Besides the true males and females, there is a race of wingless asexual individuals which have the power of producing living young in rapid succession, and these in turn may produce others of the same kind for several generations, before sexual individuals appear. They suck the sap of plants by means of a tubular proboscis, and owing to the wonderful rapidity of their reproduction become very destructive to vegetation. Many of the <spn>Aphid\'91</spn> excrete honeydew from two tubes near the end of the body.</note>