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To charge with a crime; to accuse; to institute a private criminal prosecution against for some heinous crime; as, to appeal a person of felony.

That may be accused or called to answer by appeal; as, a criminal is appealable for manslaughter. [Obs.]

A person or prosecuted for a crime. [Obs.] See Appellee.

The person who is appealed against, or accused of crime; -- opposed to appellor. Blackstone.

The person who institutes an appeal, or prosecutes another for a crime. Blackstone.

l thing; to annex; as, notes appended to this chapter. A further purpose appended to the primary one. I. Taylor.

Hence: To take or seize (a person) by legal process; to arrest; as, to apprehend a criminal.

One who confesses a crime and accuses another. See 1st Approvement, 2.

One of a sect of Christian in the primitive church who used water instead of wine in the Lord's Supper.

The palm (or great black) cockatoo, of Australia (Microglossus aterrimus).

A chief bishop; a church dignitary of the first class (often called a metropolitan or primate) who superintends the conduct of the suffragan bishops in his province, and also exercises episcopal authority in his own diocese.

The primitive enteron or undifferentiated digestive sac of a gastrula or other embryo. See Illust. under Invagination.

gnifying chief, arch; as, architect, archiepiscopal. In Biol. and Anat. it usually means primitive, original, ancestral; as, archipterygium, the primitive fin or wing.

A hollow blastula, supposed to be the primitive form; a c

Chief; primary; primordial. [Obs.] Cudworth.

The primitive form of fin, like that of Ceratodus.

Rightly; correctly; in a right way or form; without mistake or crime; as, to worship God aright.

To take, seize, or apprehend by authority of law; as, to arrest one for debt, or for a crime.

tion; to gain or compass an object by effort, practice, study, inquiry, reasoning, or experiment. To arrive at, or attain to. When he arrived at manhood. Rogers. We arrive at knowledge of a law of nature by the generalization of facts. McCosh. If at great things thou wouldst arrive. Milton.

magic. [Obs.] Shak. Art and part (Scots Law), share or concern by aiding and abetting a criminal in the perpetration of a crime, whether by advice or by assistance in the execution; complicity.