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Anticipative of something unfavorable' fearful of what may be coming; in dread of possible harm; in expectation of evil. Not at all apprehensive of evils as a distance. Tillotson. Reformers . . . apprehensive for their lives. Gladstone.

Impossible to be approached.

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

A South American bird, of the genus Pleroglossius, allied to the toucans. There are several species.

The palm (or great black) cockatoo, of Australia (Microglossus aterrimus).

A crossbow, consisting of a steel bow set in a shaft of wood, furnished 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.

A crossbowman. [Obs.] Speed.

o 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.

A crossbow. See Arbalest.

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

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

Having a treelike appearance. "An arborized or moss agate." Wright.

A fossil bird, of the Jurassic period, remarkable for having a long tapering tail of many vertebræ with feathers along each side, and jaws armed with teeth, with other reptilian characteristics.

A crossbow. Fosbroke.

A crossbowman; one who used the arcubalist. Camden.

The five united jaws and accessory ossicles of certain sea urchins.

idation of a building, as in sustaining slender columns, holding up canopies, etc. Oxf. Gloss.

steel-clad. This day will be launched . . . the first armor-plated steam frigate in the possession of Great Britain. Times (Dec. 29, 1860).

Snatched away; seized or possessed, as a demoniac; raving; mad; crack-brained. [Obs.] Odd, arreptitious, frantic extravagances. Howell.

person, or the seizure of his effects; esp., a process by which money or movables in the possession of a third party are attached.