Apis (A`pis) , the sacred live bull of the Egyptians, the incarnation of Osiris; must be black all over the body, have a white triangular spot on the forehead, the figure of an eagle on the back, and under the tongue the image of a scarabæus; was at the end of 25 years drowned in a sacred fountain, had his body embalmed, and his mummy regarded as an object of worship.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
A`pion * Apocalyptic writings