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A beautiful mottled and curled wood, used in cabinetwork. It is obtained from the Pterocarpus Indicus of Amboyna, Borneo, etc.

A iron instrument which is attached to a ship by a cable (rope or chain), and which, being cast overboard, lays hold of the earth by a fluke or hook and thus retains the ship in a particular station.

lish Normans, or the Normans who conquered England. Anglo-Saxon. See Anglo-Saxon in the Vocabulary.

In a vertical line. The anchor in apeak, when the cable has been sufficiently hove in to bring the ship over it, and the ship is them said to be hove apeak. [Spelt also apeek.]

Capable of being appeased or pacified; placable. -- Ap*peas"a*ble*ness, n.

Applicable; also, compliant. [Obs.] Howell.

The quality or state of being applicable. [R.]

Very applicable; well adapted; suitable or fit; relevant; pat; -- followed by to; as, this argument is very apposite to the case. -- Ap"po*site*ly, adv. -- Ap"po*site*ness, n.

in place, time, or character; to draw nearer to; as, to approach the city; to approach my cabin; he approached the age of manhood. He was an admirable poet, and thought even to have approached Homer. Temple.

Antiquity of style or use; obsoleteness. A select vocabulary corresponding (in point of archaism and remoteness from ordinary use) to our Scriptural vocabulary. De Quincey.

He was there only for the purpose of ascertaining whether a descent on England was practicable. Macaulay.

Of or pertaining to the patriotic Jewish family to which the Maccabees belonged; Maccabean; as, the Asmonean dynasty. [Written also Asmonæan.]

Effects of an insolvent debtor or bankrupt, applicable to the payment of debts.

An anchor is said to be astay, in heaving it, an acute angle is formed between the cable and the surface of the water.

r actively engaged. -- At least. See Least and However. -- At one. See At one, in the Vocabulary.

he shoulder blade is . . . attached only to the muscles. Paley. A huge stone to which the cable was attached. Macaulay.

instrument for piercing small holes, as in leather or wood; used by shoemakers, saddlers, cabinetmakers, etc. The blade is differently shaped and pointed for different uses, as in the brad awl, saddler's awl, shoemaker's awl, etc.

ivate stairs. Also used adjectively. See Back stairs, Backstairs, and Backstair, in the Vocabulary. -- Back step (Mil.), the retrograde movement of a man or body of men, without changing front. -- Back stream, a current running against the main current of a stream; an eddy. -- To take the back track, to retrace one'…

A balance wheel, as of a watch, or clock. See Balance wheel (in the Vocabulary).

In a base manner; with despicable meanness; dishonorably; shamefully.