Ape definitions Webster's 1828 Dictionary APE, n. 1. A genus of quadrupeds, found in the torrid ... all the tribe of monkeys and baboons; but in zoology, ape is limited to such of these animals as have no ... who imitates servilely, in allusion to the manners of the ape; a silly fellow. APE, v.t. To imitate servilely; to mimic, as an ape imitates human actions. Weak persons are always prone to ...
Barbary ape definitions WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005) n 1: tailless macaque ... cliffs and forests of northwestern Africa and Gibraltar [syn: Barbary ape, Macaca sylvana] Merriam Webster's noun Etymology: Barbary, Africa Date ... horse; a barb. [Obs.] Also, a kind of pigeon. Barbary ape (Zo["o]l.), an ape (Macacus innus) of north Africa and Gibraltar Rock, being the ...
Sea ape definitions Webster's 1913 Dictionary Sea ape Sea" ape` (Zo["o]l.) (a) The thrasher shark. (b) The sea ... American and the European coasts. Called also fox shark, sea ape, sea fox, slasher, swingle-tail, and thrasher shark. 3. (Zo ...
man ape definitions Merriam Webster's noun Date: circa 1864 1. great ape 2. any of various fossil primates intermediate in characters between ... man, hardware man, wood man (as distinguished from woodman). Man ape (Zo["o]l.), a anthropoid ape, as the gorilla. Man at arms, a designation of the ...
Sea-ape definitions Webster's 1828 Dictionary SE'A-APE, n. [sea and ape.] The name given to a marine animal which plays tricks like an ape. Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms n. Sea-fox, fox ...
wine ape definitions Webster's 1913 Dictionary Wine Wine, n. [OE. win ... of wine. See under Spirit. To have drunk wine of ape or wine ape, to be so drunk as to be foolish. [Obs.] --Chaucer ...
Dog ape definitions Webster's 1913 Dictionary Dog Dog (d[o^]g ... an advantage to them but is none to him. Dog ape (Zo["o]l.), a male ape. Dog cabbage, or Dog's cabbage (Bot.), a succulent herb ...
anthropoid ape definitions WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005) n 1: any tailless ape of the families Pongidae and Hylobatidae Merriam Webster's noun Date: circa 1837 ape 1b
To have drunk wine of ape definitions Webster's 1913 Dictionary Wine Wine, n. [OE. win ... of wine. See under Spirit. To have drunk wine of ape or wine ape, to be so drunk as to be foolish. [Obs.] --Chaucer ...
ape-man definitions WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005) n 1: hypothetical ... be intermediate between apes and human beings [syn: missing link, ape- man] 2: a person assumed to have been raised by ...
great ape definitions WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005) n 1: any of ... the large anthropoid apes of the family Pongidae [syn: great ape, pongid] Merriam Webster's noun Date: 1913 any of a ...
Half ape definitions Webster's 1913 Dictionary Half Half (h[aum]f ... half knowledge. Assumed from thence a half consent. --Tennyson. Half ape (Zo["o]l.), a lemur. Half back. (Football) See under ...