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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 defensive support, as a castle, morass, wood, decl…

as principal, and which passes as incident to it, as a right of way, or other easement to land; a right of common to pasture, an outhouse, barn, garden, or orchard, to a house or messuage. In a strict legal sense, land can never pass as an appurtenance to land. Tomlins. Bouvier. Burrill. Globes . . . provided as appurt…

ning to some more important thing; accessory; incident; as, a right of way appurtenant to land or buildings. Blackstone. Common appurtenatn. (Law) See under Common, n.

A genus of New Zealand birds about the size of a hen, with only short rudiments of wings, armed with a claw and without a tail; the kiwi. It is allied to the gigantic extinct moas of the same country. Five species are known.

Secreting water; -- applied to certain glands. Dunglison.

or watery; wateriness. Huxley. Very little water or aquosity is found in their belly. Holland.

Fit for plowing or tillage; -- hence, often applied to land which has been plowed or tilled.

The glandular organ in which the material for the web of spiders is secreted.

Plowing; tillage. [R.] Lands are said to be in a state of aration when they are under tillage. Brande.

or. Rank pretends to fix the value of every one, and is the most arbitrary of all things. Landor.

agrance, growing in small axillary clusters, and appearing early in the spring; in New England known as mayflower; -- called also ground laurel. Gray.

of the old German empire, whose office was similar to that of the great chamberlain in England.

In England, an ecclesiastical dignitary, next in rank below a bishop, whom he assists, and by whom he is appointed, though with independent authority. Blackstone.

en (Roccella tinctoria, etc.), which grow on maritime rocks in the Canary and Cape Verd Islands, etc. Tomlinson.

Ægean Sea, separating Greece from Asia Minor. It is studded with a vast number of small islands.

ntic cephalopods, allied to the squids, found esp. in the North Atlantic and about New Zealand.

Of or pertaining to arctic lands; as, the arctogeal fauna.

t of armed ships; a squadron. Specifically, the Spanish fleet which was sent to assail England, a. d. 1558.

A body of forces equipped for war; -- used of a land or naval force. "The whole united armament of Greece." Glover.

The system by which a country raises, classifies, arranges, and equips its armed land forces. The usual divisions are: (1) A regular or active army, in which soldiers serve continuously with the colors and live in barracks or cantonments when not in the field; (2) the reserves of this army, in which the soldiers, while…