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The quality or state of being applicable. [R.]

One who apples for something; one who makes request; a petitioner. The applicant for a cup of water. Plumtre. The court require the applicant to appear in person. Z. Swift.

Of or pertaining to Aracan, a province of British Burmah. -- n. sing. & pl.

Hidden; secret. [Obs.] "The arcane part of divine wisdom." Berkeley.

A secret; a mystery; -- generally used in the plural. Inquiries into the arcana of the Godhead. Warburton.

The language of the Armoricans, a Celtic dialect which has remained to the present times.

A native of Armorica.

See Barbican.

See Barbicanage.

An opening in the wall of a fortress, through which missiles were discharged upon an enemy.

Money paid for the support of a barbican. [Obs.]

A thick, strong stuff, somewhat like camlet; -- still used for outer garments in the Levant.

Of, relating to, or resembling, a basilica; basilical. There can be no doubt that the first churches in Constantinople were in the basilican form. Milman.

Buccaned meat.

depredations on the Spaniards in America in the 17th and 18th centuries. [Written also bucanier.]

Like a buccaneer; piratical.

Pertaining to the calcaneum; as, calcaneal arteries.

One of the bones of the tarsus which in man, forms the great bone of the heel; -- called also fibulare.

A jeweled chain, necklace, or collar. [Also written carkenet and carcant.] Shak.

An American bird of the genus Cassicus, allied to the starlings and orioles, remarkable for its skillfully constructed and suspended nest; the crested oriole. The name is also sometimes given to the piping crow, an Australian bird.