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Having or designating conspicuous or warning colors or structures indicative of special means of defense against enemies, as in the skunk.

To furnish with apparatus; to equip; to fit out. Ships . . . appareled to fight. Hayward.

Semblance, or apparent likeness; external show. pl. Outward signs, or circumstances, fitted to make a particular impression or to determine the judgment as to the character of a person or a thing, an act or a state; as, appearances are against him. There was upon the tabernacle, as it were, the appearance of fire. Num.…

The act of appeasing, or the state of being appeased; pacification. Hayward.

A tap or stamp of the foot as a warning of intent to attack; -- called also attack.

. be taken with children, there will not be much need of the application of the common rewards and punishments. Locke.

, being well appointed, did so entertain them that their ships departed terribly torn. Hayward.

The advanced works, trenches, or covered roads made by besiegers in their advances toward a fortress or military post.

actically. Opportunities to approve . . . worth. Emerson. He had approved himself a great warrior. Macaulay. 'T is an old lesson; Time approves it true. Byron. His account . . . approves him a man of thought. Parkman.

Approbation. I did nothing without your approvement. Hayward.

A bailiff or steward; an agent. [Obs.] Jacobs.

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

One of a swarthy race occupying Arabia, and numerous in Syria, Northern Africa, etc. Street Arab, a homeless vagabond in the streets of a city, particularly and outcast boy or girl. Tylor. The ragged outcasts and street Arabs who are shivering in damp doorways. Lond. Sat. Rev.

The award of arbitrators. Cowell.

A dwarf tree, one in size between a shrub and a tree; a treelike shrub. Bradley.

Of or pertaining to a dwarf tree; shrublike. Da Costa.

et; a mystery; -- generally used in the plural. Inquiries into the arcana of the Godhead. Warburton.

A warm waterproof overshoe. [U.S.]

The termination of many English words; as, coward, reynard, drunkard, mostly from the French, in which language this ending is of German origin, being orig. the same word as English hard. It usually has the sense of one who has to a high or excessive degree the quality expressed by the root; as, braggart, sluggard.…

Warmth of passion or affection; ardor; vehemence; eagerness; as, the ardency of love or zeal.