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The act of addressing or directing one's course. [Rare & Obs.] Chapman.

Action; endeavor. [Obs.] And with his best affair Obeyed the pleasure of the Sun. Chapman.

Regarded with affection; beloved. [Obs.] His affected Hercules. Chapman.

A disease occurring in Bengal and other parts of the East Indies, in which the tongue chaps and cleaves.

A chaplain.

A kind of cold cream prepared from almonds, for chapped hands, etc.

To enamel. [Obs.] Enlightened all with stars, And richly ameled. Chapman.

A garland or fillet; a chaplet or wreath. Drayton. Tennyson.

To add, as an accessory to the principal thing; to annex; as, notes appended to this chapter. A further purpose appended to the primary one. I. Taylor.

To visit. [Obs.] And he applied each place so fast. Chapman. Applied chemistry. See under Chemistry. -- Applied mathematics. See under Mathematics.

another). The nymph herself did then appose, For food and beverage, to him all best meat. Chapman.

presentation; theme or topic; also, an abstract or summary, as of the contents of a book, chapter, poem. You and love are still my argument. Shak. The abstract or argument of the piece. Jeffrey. [Shields] with boastful argument portrayed. Milton.

To furnish with an arras. Chapman.

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

Aspiration. [Obs.] Chapman.

p. Four assistants who his labor share. Pope. Rhymes merely as assistants to memory. Mrs. Chapone.

Full of augury; foreboding. [Obs.] "Augurous hearts." Chapman.

Told in the ear, i. e., told privately; as, auricular confession to the priest. This next chapter is a penitent confession of the king, and the strangest . . . that ever was auricular. Milton.

To occasion; to originate. [Obs.] Such an overthrow . . . I have authored. Chapman.

; destructive; injurious; noxious; pernicious. "Baneful hemlock." Garth. "Baneful wrath." Chapman. -- Bane"ful*ly, adv. --Bane"ful*ness, n.