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ensuing conclusion or effect; the year ensuing was a cold one. So spoke the Dame, but no applause ensued. Pope. Damage to the mind or the body, or to both, ensues, unless the exciting cause be presently removed. I. Taylor.

Applause. [Obs.] Hammond.

t; extensive, though not universal; as, a general opinion; a general custom. This general applause and cheerful sShak.

A word used as a shout of joy, triumph, applause, encouragement, or welcome. Hurrah! hurrah! for Ivry and Henry of Navarre. Macaulay.

nk; to deprive of sense and judgment; also, to stupefy. The inebriating effect of popular applause. Macaulay.

o express by, or utter with, laughter; -- with out. From his deep chest laughs out a loud applause. Shak. To laugh away. (a) To drive away by laughter; as, to laugh away regret. (b) To waste in hilarity. "Pompey doth this day laugh away his fortune." Shak. -- To laugh down. (a) To cause to cease or desist by laughter;…

The view obtained by one looking out; scope of vision; prospect; sight; appearance. Applause Which owes to man's short outlook all its charms. Young.

lively parody which he wrote . . . on Dryden's "Hind and Panther" was received with great applause. Macaulay.

A mark or expression of applause; praise bestowed. Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng. Longfellow.

Worthy of praise or applause; commendable; as, praiseworthy action; he was praiseworthy. Arbuthnot.

g, expressing, or manifesting rapture; as, rapturous joy, pleasure, or delight; rapturous applause.

; to enumerate; as, to recount one's blessings. Dryden. To all his angels, who, with true applause, Recount his praises. Milton.

That which goes round a whole circle or company; as, a round of applause.

Filled to satiety; glutted; sated; -- followed by with or of. "Satiate of applause." Pope.

, a shield; to cover from danger; to defend; to protect from assault or injury. Shouts of applause ran ringing through the field, To see the son the vanquished father shield. Dryden. A woman's shape doth shield thee. Shak.

as tempestuous and blustering. Druden. No sober man would put himself into danger for the applause of escaping without breaking his neck. Dryden.

An author who should introduce such a sport of words upon our stage would meet with small applause. Broome.

formerly with of, now with for; as, he had no taste for study. I have no taste Of popular applause. Dryden.

By means of; by the agency of. Through these hands this science has passed with great applause. Sir W. Temple. Material things are presented only through their senses. Cheyne.

Fig.: Empty; airy. "Windy joy." Milton. Here's that windy applause, that poor, transitory pleasure, for which I was dishonored. South.