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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.

A kind of apple which by keeping becomes much withered; -- called also Johnapple. Shak.

The act of grasping with the intellect; the contemplation of things, without affirming, denying, or passing any judgment; intellection; perception. Simple apprehension denotes no more than the soul's naked intellection of an object. Glanvill.

Striking against; impinging; as, the appulsive influence of the planets. P. Cyc.

ous deposit. Dana. Aqueous extract, an extract obtained from a vegetable substance by steeping it in water. -- Aqueous humor (Anat.), one the humors of the eye; a limpid fluid, occupying the space between the crystalline lens and the cornea. (See Eye.) -- Aqueous rocks (Geol.), those which are deposited from water and…

rry externally resembling the strawberry; the arbute tree. Trailing arbutus (Bot.), a creeping or trailing plant of the Heath family (Epigæa repens), having white or usually rose- colored flowers with a delicate fragrance, growing in small axillary clusters, and appearing early in the spring; in New England known as ma…

outside of a ship's upper works on holidays. Arming press (Bookbinding), a press for stamping titles and designs on the covers of books.

A place where arms and instruments of war are deposited for safe keeping.

; to rouse; to excite; as, to arouse one from sleep; to arouse the dormant faculties. Grasping his spear, forth issued to arouse His brother, mighty sovereign on the host. Cowper. No suspicion was aroused. Merivale.

The act of stopping, or restraining from further motion, etc.; stoppage; hindrance; restraint; as, an arrest of development. As the arrest of the air showeth. Bacon.

Slopingly; aslant; declining from an upright direction; sloping. "Set them not upright, but aslope." Bacon.

Helping; lending aid or support; auxiliary. Genius and learning . . . are mutually and greatly assistant to each other. Beattie.

Lending aid, helping.

In a stooping or inclined position. Gay.

The art of describing or delineating the stars; a description or mapping of the heavens.

To adorn with trapping; to array. [Obs.] Shall your horse be attrapped . . . more richly Holland.

The poets represented her a rising out of the ocean, in a chariot, with rosy fingers dropping gentle dew.

Conferring aid or help; helping; aiding; assisting; subsidiary; as auxiliary troops. Auxiliary scales (Mus.), the scales of relative or attendant keys. See under Attendant, a. -- Auxiliary verbs (Gram.). See Auxiliary, n., 3.

Auxiliary; helping. [Obs.]

colored spangles. It was produced in the first place by the accidental (par aventure) dropping of some brass filings into a pot of melted glass.