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ud hum of approbation. Macaulay. The silent approbation of one's own breast. Melmoth. Animals . . . love approbation or praise. Darwin.

A spiritual corporation possessed of an appropriated benefice; also, an impropriator.

The act of approximating; a drawing, 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.

A driving or running towards; approach; impulse; also, the act of striking against. In all consonants there is an appulse of the organs. Holder.

A fruit allied to the plum, of an orange color, oval shape, and delicious taste; also, the tree (Prunus Armeniaca of Linnæus) which bears this fruit. By cultivation it has been introduced throughout the temperate zone.

artificial group, which included Crustacea, spiders, centipeds, and even worms. These animals are now placed in several distinct classes and orders.

A design or painting in thin transparent water colors; also, the mode of painting in such colors.

, or a globe or tank (usually with glass sides), in which living specimens of aquatic animals or plants are kept.

fortis, by which an effect is produced resembling a drawing in water colors or India ink; also, the engraving produced by this method.

r and lie in strata, as opposed to volcanic rocks, which are of igneous origin; -- called also sedimentary rocks.

ts of a pattern in which plants, fruits, foliage, etc., as well as figures of men and animals, real or imaginary, are fantastically interlaced or put together.

Of or pertaining to Arabia or the Arabians. Arabic numerals or figures, the nine digits, 1, 2, 3, etc., and the cipher 0. -- Gum arabic. See under Gum.

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

fabaceous tree of Brazil (Centrolobium robustum) having handsomely striped wood; --called also zebrawood.

ical device for bending the bow. It served to throw arrows, darts, bullets, etc. [Written also arbalet and arblast.] Fosbroke.

A traffic in bills of exchange (see Arbitration of Exchange); also, a traffic in stocks which bear differing values at the same time in different markets.

Attached to, found in or upon, or frequenting, woods or trees; as, arboreal animals. Woodpeckers are eminently arboreal. Darwin.

The state of being arborescent; the resemblance to a tree in minerals, or crystallizations, or groups of crystals in that form; as, the arborescence produced by precipitating silver.

The appearance or figure of a tree or plant, as in minerals or fossils; a dendrite.

clusters, and appearing early in the spring; in New England known as mayflower; -- called also ground laurel. Gray.