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t of seizing or taking by legal process; arrest; as, the felon, after his apprehension, escaped.

Capable of apprehending, or quick to do so; apt; discerning. It may be pardonable to imagine that a friend, a kind and apprehensive . . . friend, is listening to our talk. Hawthorne.

Capable of being approached; accessible; as, approachable virtue.

Capable of being appropriated, set apart, sequestered, or assigned exclusively to a particular use. Sir T. Browne.

rawing, advancing or being near; approach; also, the result of approximating. The largest capacity and the most noble dispositions are but an approximation to the proper standard and true symmetry of human nature. I. Taylor.

Capable of being adapted. [Obs.] Sherwood.

A natural or acquired disposition or capacity for a particular purpose, or tendency to a particular action or effect; as, oil has an aptitude to burn. He seems to have had a peculiar aptitude for the management of irregular troops. Macaulay.

Incombustible; capable of sustaining a strong heat without alteration of form or properties.

Capable of being decided by arbitration; determinable. [Archaic] Bp. Hall.

Exercised according to one's own will or caprice, and therefore conveying a notion of a tendency to abuse the possession of power. Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused licentiousness. Washington.

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

Of or performance to Argos, the capital of Argolis in Greece. -- n.

Capable of being argued; admitting of debate.

rmed at all points (Blazoning), completely incased in armor, sometimes described as armed cap-à-pie. Cussans. -- Armed en flute. (Naut.) See under Flute. -- Armed magnet, a magnet provided with an armature. -- Armed neutrality. See under Neutrality.

art. They have tricker and more muscular walls than veins, and are connected with them by capillaries.

visions of Crustacea, so called because the thorax and abdomen are both segmented; Tetradecapoda. It includes the Amphipoda and Isopoda.

Capable of being ascended.

Capable of being ascended; climbable.

trid meat infusions, occurring in peculiar masses, each of which is inclosed in a hyaline capsule and contains a large number of spherical micrococci.

Capable of being ascribed; attributable.