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rt 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. Stillingfleet. It is not at all times easy to find words appropriate to express our ideas. Locke.

In an appropriate or proper manner; fitly; properly.

ng. The largest capacity and the most noble dispositions are but an approximation to the proper standard and true symmetry of human nature. I. Taylor.

In an apt or suitable manner; fitly; properly; pertinently; appropriately; readily.

Disposition of the mind; propensity; as, the aptness of men to follow example.

Incombustible; capable of sustaining a strong heat without alteration of form or properties.

Having the form, constitution, or habits, of a proper tree, in distinction from a shrub. Loudon.

Applied to a gastrula when the blastorope does not entirely up.

Chief physician; -- a term applied, on the continent of Europe, to the first or body physician of princes and to the first physician of some cities. P. Cyc.

k philosopher; constructed on the principle of Archimedes' screw; as, Archimedean drill, propeller, etc. Archimedean screw, or Archimedes' screw, an instrument, said to have been invented by Archimedes, for raising water, formed by winding a flexible tube round a cylinder in the form of a screw. When the screw is place…

Used in building; proper for building. Derham.

A suffix properly meaning a rule, ruling, as in monarchy, the rule of one only. Cf. -arch.

A palm tree (Saguerus saccharifer) which furnishes sago, wine, and fibers for ropes; the gomuti palm.

A fish of Europe (Maurolicus Pennantii) with silvery scales. The name is also applied to various fishes of the genus Argentina.

, esp. one organized in companies, battalions, regiments, brigades, and divisions, under proper officers.

f plants; also, the most important species (Arnica montana), native of the mountains of Europe, used in medicine as a narcotic and stimulant.

To put in proper order; to dispose (persons, or parts) in the manner intended, or best suited for the purpose; as, troops arranged for battle. So [they] came to the market place, and there he arranged his men in the streets. Berners. [They] were beginning to arrange their hampers. Boswell. A mechanism previously arrang…

A ranking or setting forth in order, by the proper officer, of a jury as impaneled in a cause.

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

One of the elements, a solid substance resembling a metal in its physical properties, but in its chemical relations ranking with the nonmetals. It is of a steel-gray color and brilliant luster, though usually dull from tarnish. It is very brittle, and sublimes at 356º Fahrenheit. It is sometimes found native, but usual…