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To direct, designate, or limit; to make or direct a new disposition of, by virtue of a power contained in a conveyance; -- said of an estate already conveyed. Burrill. Kent. To appoint one's self, to resolve. [Obs.] Crowley.

A person appointed. The commission authorizes them to make appointments, and pay the appointees. Circular of Mass. Representatives (1768).

To take or seize; to take hold of. [Archaic] We have two hands to apprehended it. Jer. Taylor.

judgment; intellection; perception. Simple apprehension denotes no more than the soul's naked intellection of an object. Glanvill.

To draw near, in a figurative sense; to make advances; to approximate; as, he approaches to the character of the ablest statesman.

To take to one's self in exclusion of others; to claim or use as by an exclusive right; as, let no man appropriate the use of a common benefit.

To make proof of; to demonstrate; to prove or show practically. 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.

A flooring of plank before a dam to cause the water to make a gradual descent.

To make fit. [Obs.] Bailey

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

One who makes trees his study, or who is versed in the knowledge of trees. Howell.

To make appear archaic or antique. Mahaffy.

A person skilled in the art of building; one who understands architecture, or makes it his occupation to form plans and designs of buildings, and to superintend the artificers employed.

or church, or of the ground within an inclosure; an open space in a building. The Alban lake . . . looks like the area of some vast amphitheater. Addison.

To dry, or make dry. Bacon.

To make an argument; to argue. [Obs.] Gower.

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

To take by the arm; to take up in one's arms. [Obs.] And make him with our pikes and partisans A grave: come, arm him. Shak. Arm your prize; I know you will not lose him. Two N. Kins.

One who makes or repairs armor or arms.

Anything which a man takes in his hand in anger, to strike or assault another with; an aggressive weapon. Cowell. Blackstone.