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Having the quality of desiring gratification; as, appetitive power or faculty. Sir M. Hale.

The act of applying; application; [Obs.] subservience. Shak.

By way of application.

By application. [R.]

Application. [Obs.] Marston

To make request; to have recourse with a view to gain something; to make application. (to); to solicit; as, to apply to a friend for information.

The act of adding; application; accretion. It grows . . . by the apposition of new matter. Arbuthnot.

What is peculiarly one's own; peculiar qualification.[Obs.] If you can neglect Your own appropriaments. Ford.

a particular use or person, or of taking to one's self, in exclusion of all others; application to a special use or purpose, as of a piece of ground for a park, or of money to carry out some object.

uit; to adapt. [Obs.] " To apt their places." B. Jonson. That our speech be apted to edification. Jer. Taylor.

Water; -- a word much used in pharmacy and the old chemistry, in various signification, determined by the word or words annexed. Aqua ammoniæ, the aqueous solution of ammonia; liquid ammonia; often called aqua ammonia. -- Aqua marine, or Aqua marina. Same as Aquamarine. -- Aqua regia. Etym: [L., royal water] (Chem.),…

A place in which a collection of rare trees and shrubs is cultivated for scientific or educational purposes.

th being a piece of divine architecture. Burnet. Military architecture, the art of fortifications. -- Naval architecture, the art of building ships.

A sand bath; application of hot sand to the body. Dunglison.

es of this science. Arithmetic of sines, trigonometry. -- Political arithmetic, the application of the science of numbers to problems in civil government, political economy, and social science. -- Universal arithmetic, the name given by Sir Isaac Newton to algebra.

annon and small arms collectively, with their equipments, belonging to a ship or a fortification.

d from the enemy's shot by iron or steel armor. There is no distinct and accepted classification distinguishing armored and protected cruisers from each other, except that the first have more or heavier armor than the second.

esult of arranging; system of parts disposed in due order; regular and systematic classification; as, arrangement of one's dress; the Linnæan arrangement of plants.

To direct. [Obs.] My supplication to you I arrect. Skelton.

desired end; the adaptation of things in the natural world to the uses of life; the application of knowledge or power to practical purposes. Blest with each grace of nature and of art. Pope.