apiculture, n.f., bee-culture, bee-keeping.

apiquer, v.a., (nav.) to top, to peak (a yard).

apitoyer, v.a., to move one to pity, to soften.

s’apitoyer, v.r., to be moved to pity. Elle s’est apitoyée sur votre sort; she pitied, bewailed your fate.

aplani, -e, adj., level, flat, smooth, even.

aplanir, v.a., to smooth, to level, to make even, smooth, to unrumple; to plane; to make easy, to remove, to clear up. — le chemin; to level the road. — les difficultés; to clear up difficulties.

s’aplanir, v.r., to grow easy, smooth, flat, &c.

aplanissement (-mān), n.m., smoothing, leveling, making even; smoothness, evenness.

aplatir, v.a., to flatten, to make, strike flat, to flat, to silence, to shut up, to floor, to beat hollow.

s’aplatir, v.r., to become flat, to be flattened, to crouch, to cringe.