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To show approval of by clapping the hands, acclamation, or other significant sign. I would applaud thee to the very echo, That should applaud again. Shak.

The act of applauding; approbation and praise publicly expressed by clapping the hands, stamping or tapping with the feet, acclamation, huzzas, or other means; marked commendation. The brave man seeks not popular applause. Dryden.

To lay or place; to put or adjust (one thing to another); -- with to; as, to apply the hand to the breast; to apply medicaments to a diseased part of the body. He said, and the sword his throat applied. Dryden.

in the richness of their appointments. Prescott. I'll prove it in my shackles, with these hands Void of appoinment, that thou liest. Beau. & Fl.

Capable of being apposed, or applied one to another, as the thumb to the fingers of the hand.

To take or seize; to take hold of. [Archaic] We have two hands to apprehended it. Jer. Taylor.

The act of seizing or taking hold of; seizure; as, the hand is an organ of apprehension. Sir T. Browne.

A fabaceous tree of Brazil (Centrolobium robustum) having handsomely striped wood; --called also zebrawood.

That form of episcopacy in which the chief power is in the hands of archbishops.

Backward; in or to the rear; behindhand. Spenser.

oposition, opinion, or measure; to use arguments; to reason. I argue not Against Heaven's hand or will. Milton.

Matter for question; business in hand. [Obs.] Sheathed their swords for lack of argument. Shak.

cterized by melody, as distinguished from harmony. Mendelssohn wants the ariose beauty of Handel; vocal melody is not his forte; the interest of his airs harmonic. Foreign Quart. Rev.

The limb of the human body which extends from the shoulder to the hand; also, the corresponding limb of a monkey.

Anything which a man takes in his hand in anger, to strike or assault another with; an aggressive weapon. Cowell. Blackstone.

A sort of hand gun or firearm a contrivance answering to a trigger, by which the burning match was applied. The musket was a later invention. [Written also harquebus.]

rrear of letters to write. J. D. Forbes. In arrear or In arrears, behind; backward; behindhand; in debt.

arrest the current of a river; to arrest the senses. Nor could her virtues the relentless hand Of Death arrest. Philips.

The person in whose hands is the property attached by arrestment.

The elevation of the hand, or that part of the bar at which it is raised, in beating time; the weak or unaccented part of the bar; - - opposed to thesis. Moore.