ape

A primate of the superfamily Hominoidea, generally larger than monkeys and distinguished from them by having no tail.

Of vvhat texte thou proveſt hell / vvill a nother prove purgatory / a nother lymbo patrum / and a nother the aſſumpcion of oure ladi: And a nother ſhall prove of the ſame texte that an Ape hath a tayle.

Any such primate other than a human.

An unintelligent or unsophisticated person, especially one who behaves irrationally or in an uncivilised manner.

One who apes; a foolish imitator.

A black person.

To behave like an ape.

To imitate or mimic, particularly to imitate poorly.

And well their dignity it ſuits, / To ape the gravity of brutes.

But there’s this difference; one is gold put to the use of paving-stones, and the other is tin polished to ape a service of silver.

Wild; crazy.

We were ape over the new look.

He went ape when he heard the bad news.