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to equip; to fit out. The English, being well appointed, did so entertain them that their ships departed terribly torn. Hayward.

Equipment, furniture, as for a ship or an army; whatever is appointed for use and management; outfit; (pl.) the accouterments of military officers or soldiers, as belts, sashes, swords. The cavaliers emulated their chief in the richness of their appointments. Prescott. I'll prove it in my shackles, with these hands Voi…

Apprenticeship. [Obs.]

Apprenticeship. [Obs.]

it; proper. In its strict and appropriate meaning. Porteus. Appropriate acts of divine worship. Stillingfleet. It is not at all times easy to find words appropriate to express our ideas. Locke.

The high priest of the Persian Magi, or worshipers of fire.

Construction, in a more general sense; frame or structure; workmanship. The architecture of grasses, plants, and trees. Tyndall. The formation of the first earth being a piece of divine architecture. Burnet. Military architecture, the art of fortifications. -- Naval architecture, the art of building ships.…

Pertaining to the ship Argo. See Argo.

The name of the ship which carried Jason and his fifty-four companions to Colchis, in quest of the Golden Fleece.

Pertaining to the ship Argo.

A large ship, esp. a merchant vessel of the largest size. Where your argosies with portly sail . . . Do overpeer the petty traffickers. Shak.

Rightly; correctly; in a right way or form; without mistake or crime; as, to worship God aright.

A fleet of armed ships; a squadron. Specifically, the Spanish fleet which was sent to assail England, a. d. 1558.

All the cannon and small arms collectively, with their equipments, belonging to a ship or a fortification.

Red dress cloths formerly hung fore and aft outside of a ship's upper works on holidays. Arming press (Bookbinding), a press for stamping titles and designs on the covers of books.

Steel or iron covering, whether of ships or forts, protecting them from the fire of artillery. Coat armor, the escutcheon of a person or family, with its several charges and other furniture, as mantling, crest, supporters, motto, etc. -- Submarine, a water-tight dress or covering for a diver. See under Submarine.…

Covered with defensive plates of metal, as a ship of war; steel-clad. This day will be launched . . . the first armor-plated steam frigate in the possession of Great Britain. Times (Dec. 29, 1860).

To bring to shore. [Obs.] And made the sea-trod ship arrive them. Chapman.

n, which by the common law is felony; the malicious and voluntary firing of a building or ship. Wharton.

A product of human workmanship; -- applied esp. to the simpler products of aboriginal art as distinguished from natural objects.