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In any measure; anywise; at all. Mine old good will and hearty affection towards you is not . . . anything at all quailed. Robynson (More's Utopia).

To or towards any place. [Archaic] De Foe.

est the surface. [U.S.] Apex of the earth's motion (Astron.), that point of the heavens toward which the earth is moving in its orbit.

One of the processes of the shell which project inwards and unite with one another, in the thorax of many Crustacea.

On or towards the port or left side; -- said of the helm.

To furnish with apparatus; to equip; to fit out. Ships . . . appareled to fight. Hayward.

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.…

The act of appeasing, or the state of being appeased; pacification. Hayward.

. be taken with children, there will not be much need of the application of the common rewards and punishments. Locke.

, being well appointed, did so entertain them that their ships departed terribly torn. Hayward.

The advanced works, trenches, or covered roads made by besiegers in their advances toward a fortress or military post.

Approbation. I did nothing without your approvement. Hayward.

A bailiff or steward; an agent. [Obs.] Jacobs.

A driving or running towards; approach; impulse; also, the act of striking against. In all consonants there is an appulse of the organs. Holder.

The award of arbitrators. Cowell.

The termination of many English words; as, coward, reynard, drunkard, mostly from the French, in which language this ending is of German origin, being orig. the same word as English hard. It usually has the sense of one who has to a high or excessive degree the quality expressed by the root; as, braggart, sluggard.…

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

; thorough or downright, in a bad sense; shameless; unmitigated; as, an arrant rogue or coward. I discover an arrant laziness in my soul. Fuller.

To or in the rear; behind; backwards. [Obs.] Spenser.

tisan. [Obs.] How to build ships, and dreadful ordnance cast, Instruct the articles and reward their. Waller.