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A kind of apple which by keeping becomes much withered; -- called also Johnapple. Shak.

The capacity of being practically applied or used; relevancy; as, a rule of general application.

Pertaining to apposition; put in apposition syntactically. Ellicott.

barrister, considered a learner of law till of sixteen years' standing, when he might be called to the rank of serjeant. [Obs.] Blackstone.

g a sprig or shoot of one tree into another, without cutting it from the parent stock; -- called, also, inarching and grafting by approach.

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.

and perihelion of a planet, or to the apogee and perigee of the moon. The more distant is called the higher apsis; the other, the lower apsis; and the line joining them, the line of apsides.

rd or words annexed. Aqua ammoniæ, the aqueous solution of ammonia; liquid ammonia; often called aqua ammonia. -- Aqua marine, or Aqua marina. Same as Aquamarine. -- Aqua regia. Etym: [L., royal water] (Chem.), a very corrosive fuming yellow liquid consisting of nitric and hydrochloric acids. It has the power of diss…

r; the eleventh sign in the zodiac, which the sun enters about the 20th of January; -- so called from the rains which prevail at that season in Italy and the East.

om water and lie in strata, as opposed to volcanic rocks, which are of igneous origin; -- called also sedimentary rocks.

Of or pertaining to Aquitania, now called Gascony.

its, foliage, etc., as well as figures of men and animals, real or imaginary, are fantastically interlaced or put together.

ritory, inhabitants, language, or literature of Syria and Mesopotamia; Aramæan; -- specifically applied to the northern branch of the Semitic family of languages, including Syriac and Chaldee. -- n.

A fabaceous tree of Brazil (Centrolobium robustum) having handsomely striped wood; --called also zebrawood.

In an arbitrary manner; by will only; despotically; absolutely.

illary clusters, and appearing early in the spring; in New England known as mayflower; -- called also ground laurel. Gray.

A chief bishop; a church dignitary of the first class (often called a metropolitan or primate) who superintends the conduct of the suffragan bishops in his province, and also exercises episcopal authority in his own diocese.

A principal enemy. Specifically, Satan, the grand adversary of mankind. Milton.

A small fish (Toxotes jaculator), of the East Indies; -- so called from its ejecting drops of water from its mouth at its prey. The name is also applied to Chætodon rostratus.

the Archbishop of Canterbury, whereof the judge, who sits as deputy to the archbishop, is called the Dean of the Arches, because he anciently held his court in the church of St. Mary-le-Bow (de arcubus). It is now held in Westminster. Mozley & W.