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Having a handle. Johnson.

refuted; admitting a satisfactory answer. The argument, though subtle, is yet answerable. Johnson.

An ornament at the eaves, concealing the ends of the joint tiles of the roof.

touch, and in some species of Crustacea the cavity of the ear is situated near the basal joint. In insects, they are popularly called horns, and also feelers. The term in also applied to similar organs on the heads of other arthropods and of annelids.

A foretaste. Antepasts of joy and comforts. Jer. Taylor.

An antimask. B. Jonson.

hat is to happen; instinctive prevision; foretaste; antepast; as, the anticipation of the joys of heaven. The happy anticipation of renewed existence in company with the spirits of the just. Thodey.

Epistles of James and Jude, the second Epistle of Peter, the second and third Epistles of John, and the Revelation. The undisputed books are called the Homologoumena.

, but that faith alone is necessary to salvation. The sect of Antinomians originated with John Agricola, in Germany, about the year 1535. Mosheim.

An old gentleman. [Obs.] You are a shrewd antiquity, neighbor Clench. B. Jonson.

Good against scrofulous disorders. Johnson. Wiseman.

A disorder of speech in which words can be uttered but not intelligibly joined together.

The revelation delivered to St. John, in the isle of Patmos, near the close of the first century, forming the last book of the New Testament.

Of or pertaining to a revelation, or, specifically, to the Revelation of St. John; containing, or of the nature of, a prophetic revelation. Apocolyptic number, the number 666, mentioned in Rev. xiii. 18. It has been variously interpreted.

Devoted to enjoyment.

ss as a missionary or reformer; as, Dionysius of Corinth is called the apostle of France, John Eliot the apostle to the Indians, Theobald Mathew the apostle of temperance.

he remaining part of a whole tone after a smaller semitone has been deducted from it; a major semitone. [Obs.]

as a thing proved; to be obvious or manifest. It doth not yet appear what we shall be. 1 John iii. 2. Of their vain contest appeared no end. Milton.

looketh on the outward appearance. 1 Sam. xvi. 7. Judge not according to the appearance. John. vii. 24.

ples (usually sliced or stewed) with spice and sugar. Apple-pie bed, a bed in which, as a joke, the sheets are so doubled (like the cover of an apple turnover) as to prevent any one from getting at his length between them. Halliwell, Conybeare. -- Apple-pie order, perfect order or arrangement. [Colloq.] Halliwell.…