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An American Dictionary of the English Language
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Springfield, Mass. · G. & C. Merriam · 1865
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Ap'pro-pin'quāte, v. i. p. 68To draw near. [Obs.] Bailey.Ap'pro-pin-quā'tion, n. p. 68A drawing nigh. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.Ap-pro-pinq'ue, v. t. p. 68To approach. Hudibras.Ap-prō'pre, v. t. p. 68To appropriate. [Obs.] Fuller.Ap-prō'pri-a-ble, a. p. 68Capable of being appropriated, set apart, sequestered, or assigned exclusively to a particular use. Browne.Ap-prō'pri-a-ments, n. pl. p. 68Parts properly or peculiarly one's own; peculiar qualifications. [Obs.] If you can neglect Your own appropriaments, but praising that In others wherein you excel yourself, You shall be much beloved…Ap-prō'pri-āte, v. t. p. 68To take to one's self in exclusion of others; to claim or use as by an exclusive right; as, let no man appropriate the use of a common benefit. 2. To set apart for, or assign to, a particular person…Ap-prō'pri-ate, a. p. 68Set apart for a particular use or person; hence, belonging peculiarly; peculiar; suitable; fit; proper. “In its strict and appropriate meaning.” Porteus. “Appropriate acts of divine worship.”…Ap-prō'pri-ate, n. p. 68An appurtenance; something belonging to another. [Obs.] Chapman.Ap-prō'pri-ate-ly, adv. p. 68In an appropriate or proper manner.Ap-prō'pri-ate-ness, n. p. 68The quality of being appropriate, or peculiarly suitable.Ap-prō'pri-ā'tion, n. p. 68The act of setting apart or assigning to a particular use or person, in exclusion of all others; application to a special use or purpose, as of a piece of ground, for a park, of a right to one's…Ap-prō'pri-a-tive, a. p. 68Appropriating; making appropriation; as, an appropriative act. McCulloch.Ap-prō'pri-ā'tor, n. p. 68One who appropriates. 2. (Law.) One who is possessed of an appropriated benefice. Blackstone.Ap-prō'pri-e-ta-ry, n. p. 68(Law.) A lay possessor of the profits of a benefice. Spelman.Ap-prōv'a-ble, a. p. 68Worthy of being approved; meriting approbation; meritorious.Ap-prov'a-ble-ness, n. p. 68The quality of being approvable.Ap-prōv'al, n. p. 68Approbation. A censor . . . without whose approval no capital sentences are to be executed. Temple.Ap-prōv'ance, n. p. 68Approbation; approval. [Rare.] Thomson.Ap-prōv', v. t. p. 68To be pleased with; to think well of; to admit the propriety or excellence of; as, we approve the measures of administration; an approved writer. 2. To prove; to confirm. [Obs. or rare.] Wouldst thou…Ap-prov'ed-ly, adv. p. 68So as to secure approbation.Ap-prŏve'ment, n. p. 68Approbation; liking. [Obs.] I did nothing without your approvement. Hayward. 2. (Law.) (a.) A confession of guilt by prisoners charged with crime, together with an accusation of their accomplices and…Ap-prōv'er, n. p. 68One who approves. Formerly, one who made proof or trial. 2. (Eng. Law.) (a.) One who confesses a crime and accuses another. See APPROVEMENT. (b.) A bailiff or steward of a manor. Jacobs.Ap-prov'ing-ly, adv. p. 68In an approving manner.Ap-prŏx'i-mant, a. p. 68Approaching. [Obs.] Sir E. Dering.Ap-prŏx'i-mate, a. p. 68Near; next; proximate. [Obs.] 2. (Chem. & Math.) Nearly approaching correctness; not carried out to perfect accuracy; as, approximate results, approximate values. 3. (Zool.) Arranged in the jaws so…Ap-prŏx'i-māte, v. t. p. 68To carry or advance near; to cause to approach. Aikin. To approximate the inequality of riches to the level of nature. Burke.Ap-prŏx'i-māte, v. i. p. 68To come or draw near; to approach. Burke.Ap·prŏx'i·mate-ly, adv. p. 68With near approximation.Ap-prŏx/i-mā'tion, n. p. 68Act of approximating; a drawing, moving, or advancing or being near; approach. The largest capacity and the most noble dispositions are but an approximation to the proper standard and true symmetry…Ap-prŏx'i-mā'tive, a. p. 68Approaching; approximate.Ap-pui', n. p. 68A support or supporter; a prop. [Obs.] If a vine be to climb trees that are of any great height, there would be stays and appuies set to it. Holland.Ăp'pulse or Ap-pūlse', n. p. 68The act of striking against. “In all consonants there is an appulse of the organs.” Holder. 2. Arrival; landing. [Rare.] Bryant. 3. (Astron.) The near approach of two heavenly bodies so that both are…Ap·pŭl'sion, n. p. 68The act of striking against.Ap-pŭl'sive, a. p. 68Striking against; impinging; as, the appulsive influence of the planets. P. Cyc.Ap-pŭl'sive-ly, adv. p. 68By appulsion.Ap-pūr'te-nance, n. p. 68(Law.) That which belongs to something else; an adjunct; an appendage; something annexed to another thing more worthy; in common parlance and legal acceptation, something belonging to another thing…Ap-pūr'te-nant, a. p. 68Belonging; pertaining; incident; as, a right of way appurtenant to land or buildings. Blackstone. Common appurtenant (Law), that which is annexed to land, and is claimed by grant, or prescription…Ăp’ri-cāte, v. i. p. 68To bask in the sun; to sun one's self. [Obs.] Boyle.A-prĭc'i-ty, n. p. 68Sunshine. [Obs.] Blount.A'pri-cōt, n. p. 68[O. Eng. apricock, O. Eng. & Fr. abricot, Sp. albaricoque, albarcoque, albercoque, alvarcoque, It. albercocci, albicocca, Ger. apricose, Ar. al-birqūq, and al-burqūq. Though the Eng. and Fr. form…A'pril, n. p. 68The fourth month of the year.A'pril-fōōl, n. p. 68One who is sportively imposed upon by others on the first of April.A pri-ō'rī p. 68(Logic.) Reasoning a priori is that which deduces consequences from definitions formed, or principles assumed, or which infers effects from causes previously known. This is the reverse of a…A’pron, n. p. 69A cloth, or piece of leather, worn on the fore part of the body, to keep the clothes clean, or defend them from injury. 2. The fat skin covering the belly of a goose or duck. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.…A’proned, a. p. 69Wearing an apron. A cobbler aproned, and a parson gowned. Pope.Ā’pron-măn, n. p. 69A man who wears an apron; a laboring man; a mechanic. Shak.Àp’ro-pôs’, adv. p. 69Opportunely; seasonably. Warburton. 2. By the way; to the purpose;—a word used to introduce an incidental observation, suited to the occasion, though not strictly belonging to the narration.Āpse, n. p. 69(Arch.) An apsis. See Apsis. The mosaic pavement in the apse, begun by Nicholas V., was completed by Paul II. Milman.Ăp'si-dal, a. p. 69(Astron.) Pertaining to the apsides. 2. (Arch.) Pertaining to the apsis of a church; as, the apsidal termination of the chancel.Āp'sis, n. p. 69See APSE. [Lat. apsis, absis, Gr. ἄψις, gen. ἁψῖδος, a tying, fastening, the hoop of a wheel, the wheel, a bow, arch, vault, from ἅπτειν, to fasten.] 1. (Astron.) One of the two points of an orbit…Apt, a. p. 69Fit; suitable. “They have not always apt instruments.” Burke. A river . . . apt to be forded by a lamb. Bp. Taylor. 2. Having a tendency; liable;—used of things; as, wheat on moist land is apt to…Ăpt, v. t. p. 69To fit; to suit. [Obs.] “That our speech be apted to necessary edification.” Bp. Taylor.Apt'a-ble, a. p. 69Capable of being adapted. [Obs.] Sherwood.Ap'tāte, v. t. p. 69To make fit. [Obs.] Bailey.Ap'ter-a or Ap'ter-ous, n. pl. p. 69(Entom.) Insects without wings, constituting the seventh order of insects in Linnæus’s system; and including also crustacea, spiders, centipeds, and even worms. But later zoologists have made a…Ăp'ter-al, a. p. 69Destitute of wings. 2. (Arch.) Without lateral columns;—applied to buildings which have no series of columns along their sides, but are either prostyle or amphiprostyle, and opposed to peripteral. P.…Āp'ter-an, n. p. 69(Entom.) One of the Aptera, an order of wingless insects.Āp'ter-ōus, a. p. 69(Entom.) Destitute of wings; apteral;—applied to insects of the order Aptera. 2. (Bot.) Destitute of membranous expansions, as a stem or petiole;—opposed to alate. Brande.Ap'ter-yx, n. p. 69(Ornith.) A bird of New Zealand of the ostrich or brevipennate family, with only short rudiments of wings, armed with a claw, and without a tail. Baird.