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A species of pier produced by thickening a wall at its termination, treated architecturally as a pilaster, with capital and base.

, monuments, remains of ancient habitations, statues, coins, manuscripts, etc.; one who searches for and studies the relics of antiquity.

To or towards any place. [Archaic] De Foe.

Open; ev [Archaic] Fotherby.

The act of opening; an opening; an aperture. [Archaic] Wiseman.

Openly; clearly. [Archaic]

Openness; frankness. [Archaic]

A deity among the Greeks and Romans. He was the god of light and day (the "sun god"), of archery, prophecy, medicine, poetry, and music, etc., and was represented as the model of manly grace and beauty; -- called also Phébus. The Apollo Belvedere, a celebrated statue of Apollo in the Belvedere gallery of the Vatican pa…

Relating to the casting of horoscopes. [Archaic] Whewell.

To summon; to challenge. [Archaic] Man to man will I appeal the Norman to the lists. Sir W. Scott.

To take or seize; to take hold of. [Archaic] We have two hands to apprehended it. Jer. Taylor.

To bring near; to cause to draw near; to advance. [Archaic] Boyle.

ot of one tree into another, without cutting it from the parent stock; -- called, also, inarching and grafting by approach.

Approach. [Archaic] Holland.

Trial; proof. [Archaic] Shak.

To approach. [Archaic] Ld. Lytton.

To make suitable; to suit. [Archaic] Paley.

Approval. [Archaic] Thomson.

upport.] (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, declivity, etc.

Nitric acid. [Archaic]