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

eans 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.

n the same case, without a connecting word between them; as, I admire Cicero, the orator. Here, the second noun explains or characterizes the first. Growth by apposition (Physiol.), a mode of growth characteristic of non vascular tissues, in which nutritive matter from the blood is transformed on the surface of an orga…

To come or go near, in place or time; to draw nigh; to advance nearer. Wherefore approached ye so nigh unto the city 2 Sam. xi. 20. But exhorting one another; and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching. Heb. x. 25.

Probation or novitiate. [Obs.] This day my sister should the cloister enter, And there receive her approbation. Shak.

r supporter; a stay; a prop. [Obs.] If a be to climb trees that are of any great height, there would be stays and appuies set to it. Holland. Point d'appui. Etym: [F., a point of support.] (Mil.) (a) A given point or body, upon which troops are formed, or by which are marched in line or column. (b) An advantageous defe…

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

A group of Turbellaria in which there is no anal aperture.

Naked spaces between the feathered areas of birds. See Pteryliæ.

Without fever; -- applied to days when there is an intermission of fever. Dunglison.

A South American bird, of the genus Pleroglossius, allied to the toucans. There are several species.

Exercised according to one's own will or caprice, and therefore conveying a notion of a tendency to abuse the possession of power. Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused licentiousness. Washington.

To decide, or determine generally. South. There shall your swords and lances arbitrate The swelling difference of your settled hate. Shak.

Fig.: Any region or scene of simple pleasure and untroubled quiet. Where the cow is, there is Arcadia. J. Burroughs.

arches, or Arches Court (Eng. Law), the court of appeal of the Archbishop of Canterbury, whereof the judge, who sits as deputy to the archbishop, is called the Dean of the Arches, because he anciently held his court in the church of St. Mary-le-Bow (de arcubus). It is now held in Westminster. Mozley & W.…

The substance from which attraction spheres develop in mitotic cell division, and of which they consist.

Burning; ardent. [R.] Lo! further on, Where flames the arduous Spirit of Isidore. Cary.

re, explain, or interpret; to divine; to guess; as, to aread a riddle or a dream. [Obs.] Therefore more plain aread this doubtful case. Spenser.

Any place of public contest or exertion; any sphere of action; as, the arenaof debate; the arena of life.

A ludicrous corruption of the Latin word ergo, therefore. Shak.