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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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One who approves. [R.]

APPROPRIATOR n.

One who appropriates.

Approbation; sanction. A censor . . . without whose approval nTemple.

APPROVER n. 2 definitions

One who approves. Formerly, one who made proof or trial.

APPROXIMATOR n.

One who, or that which, approximates.

ess of its weather, etc. The April's her eyes; it is love's spring. Shak. April fool, one who is sportively imposed upon by others on the first day of April.

A man who wears an apron; a laboring man; a mechanic. [Obs.] Shak.

cret poisoning, made by an Italian woman named Tofana, in the middle of the 17th century, who is said to have poisoned more than 600 persons. Francis. -- Aqua vitæ Etym: [L., water of life. Cf. Eau de vie, Usquebaugh], a name given to brandy and some other ardent spirits. Shak.

One of a sect of Christian in the primitive church who used water instead of wine in the Lord's Supper.

a city, particularly and outcast boy or girl. Tylor. The ragged outcasts and street Arabs who are shivering in damp doorways. Lond. Sat. Rev.

One well versed in the Arabic language or literature; also, formerly, one who followed the Arabic system of surgery.

ARACHNOLOGIST n.

One who is versed in, or studies, arachnology.

Any person who has the power of judging and determining, or ordaining, without control; one whose power of deciding and governing is not limited. For Jove is arbiter of both to man. Cowper.

t governed by any fixed rules; as, an arbitrary decision; an arbitrary punishment. It was wholly arbitrary in them to do so. Jer. Taylor. Rank pretends to fix the value of every one, and is the most arbitrary of all things. Landor.

ARBITRATOR n. 2 definitions

A person, or one of two or more persons, chosen by parties who have a controversy, to determine their differences. See Arbitration.

A female who arbitrates or judges.

One who plants or who prunes trees. [Obs.] Evelyn.

ARBORICULTURIST n.

One who cultivates trees.

One who makes trees his study, or who is versed in the knowledge of trees. Howell.

A mountainous and picturesque district of Greece, in the heart of the Peloponnesus, whose people were distinguished for contentment and rural happiness.