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g life or spirit; the state of being animate or alive. The animation of the same soul quickening the whole frame. Bp. Hall. Perhaps an inanimate thing supplies me, while I am speaking, with whatever I posses of animation. Landor.

One more, in addition to a former number; a second or additional one, similar in likeness or in effect. Another yet! -- a seventh! I 'll see no more. Shak. Would serve to scale another Hero's tower. Shak.

A species of pier produced by thickening a wall at its termination, treated architecturally as a pilaster, with capital and base.

Preceding marriage; as, an antenuptial agreement. Kent.

Anticipating; expectant; -- with of. Wakening guilt, anticipant of hell. Southey.

A remedy to counteract the effects of poison, or of anything noxious taken into the stomach; -- used with against, for, or to; as, an antidote against, for, or to, poison.

Old age. [Obs.] It not your voice broken . . . and every part about you blasted with antiquity Shak.

One taken at random rather than by selection; anybody.

as a substitute; a makeshift. He goes to work devising apologies for window curtains. Dickens.

One who has forsaken the faith, principles, or party, to which he before adhered; esp., one who has forsaken his religion for another; a pervert; a renegade.

To weaken; to enfeeble; to reduce; as, an old appalled wight. [Obs.] Chaucer. Whine, of its own nature, will not congeal and freeze, only it will lose the strength, and become appalled in extremity of cold. Holland.

s; recourse. Every milder method is to be tried, before a nation makes an appeal to arms. Kent.

Semblance, or apparent likeness; external show. pl. Outward signs, or circumstances, fitted to make a particular impression or to determine the judgment as to the character of a person or a thing, an act or a state; as, appearances are against him. There was upon the tabernacle, as it were, the appearance of fire. Num.…

Any tree genus Pyrus which has the stalk sunken into the base of the fruit; an apple tree.

Having a round, broad face, like an apple. "Apple-faced children." Dickens.

the employment of means to accomplish an end; specific use. If a right course . . . be taken with children, there will not be much need of the application of the common rewards and punishments. Locke.

tue of a power contained in a conveyance; -- said of an estate already conveyed. Burrill. Kent. To appoint one's self, to resolve. [Obs.] Crowley.

A person in whose favor a power of appointment is executed. Kent. Wharton.

One who appoints, or executes a power of appointment. Kent.

To quicken; to prompt. [Obs.] To appromt our invention. Bacon.