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The person who selects the appointee. See Appointee, 2.

To put questions to; to examine; to try. [Obs.] See Pose. To appose him without any accuser, and that secretly. Tyndale.

To rise in value. [See note under Rise, v. i.] J. Morse.

See Appraisal.

nigh unto the city 2 Sam. xi. 20. But exhorting one another; and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching. Heb. x. 25.

One who confesses a crime and accuses another. See 1st Approvement, 2.

s, a right of way appurtenant to land or buildings. Blackstone. Common appurtenatn. (Law) See under Common, n.

See Apsis.

Naked spaces between the feathered areas of birds. See Pteryliæ.

urpose, or tendency to a particular action or effect; as, oil has an aptitude to burn. He seems to have had a peculiar aptitude for the management of irregular troops. Macaulay.

A genus of fresh-water phyllopod crustaceans. See Phyllopod.

A transparent, pale green variety of beryl, used as a gem. See Beryl.

he eye; a limpid fluid, occupying the space between the crystalline lens and the cornea. (See Eye.) -- Aqueous rocks (Geol.), those which are deposited from water and lie in strata, as opposed to volcanic rocks, which are of igneous origin; -- called also sedimentary rocks.

ic numerals or figures, the nine digits, 1, 2, 3, etc., and the cipher 0. -- Gum arabic. See under Gum.

One of the classes of Arthropoda. See Illustration in Appendix.

See Areometer.

See Intercolumniation.

See Intercolumniation.

A South American monkey, the ursine howler (Mycetes ursinus). See Howler, n., 2.

See Araneina.