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To grow faint; to become weak; to become dismayed or discouraged. [Obs.] Gower.

An heir apparent. [Obs.] I'll draw it [the sword] as apparent to the crown. Shak.

One who appears. Sir T. Browne.

e name of all plants of a particular class; plant and vegetable are names of things that grow out of the earth. A proper name, on the other hand, stands for a single thing; as, Rome, Washington, Lake Erie.

To grow like an apple; to bear apples. Holland.

A passing tone preceding an essential tone, and borrowing the time it occupies from that; a short auxiliary or grace note one degree above or below the principal note unless it be of the same harmony; -- generally indicated by a note of smaller size, as in the illustration above. It forms no essential part of the harmo…

of an estate already conveyed. Burrill. Kent. To appoint one's self, to resolve. [Obs.] Crowley.

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

To praise; to commend. [Obs.] R. Browning. Appraised the Lycian custom. Tennyson.

To be apprehensive; to fear. It is worse to apprehend than to suffer. Rowe.

of seizing or taking hold of; seizure; as, the hand is an organ of apprehension. Sir T. Browne.

ppropriated, set apart, sequestered, or assigned exclusively to a particular use. Sir T. Browne.

Pertaining to water growing in water; living in, swimming in, or frequenting the margins of waters; as, aquatic plants and fowls.

Inhabiting the water. [R.] Sir T. Browne.

s differ from those of other in having the dots in their lateral surfaces in two or three rows, and the dots of contiguous rows alternating. The seeds are edible.

with a string and a trigger, and a mechanical device for bending the bow. It served to throw arrows, darts, bullets, etc. [Written also arbalet and arblast.] Fosbroke.

Pertaining to, or growing on, trees; as, arboreous moss. Quincy.

Epigæa repens), having white or usually rose- colored flowers with a delicate fragrance, growing in small axillary clusters, and appearing early in the spring; in New England known as mayflower; -- called also ground laurel. Gray.

A bowman, one skilled in the use of the bow and arrow.

The use of the bow and arrows in battle, hunting, etc.; the art, practice, or skill of shooting with a bow and arrows.