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nguished from the intellectual, rational, or spiritual part; as, the animal passions or appetites.

Want of appetite, without a loathing of food. Coxe.

A repetition of words beginning a sentence, after a long parenthesis; as, Shall that heart (which not only feels them, but which has all motions of life placed in them), shall that heart, etc.

Capable of blunting the venereal appetite. -- n.

The repetition of words in an inverse order; as, the master of the servant and the servant of the master.

Destroying the appetite, or suspending hunger.

A longing; a desire; especially an ardent desire; appetite; appetency.

Fixed and strong desire; esp. natural desire; a craving; an eager appetite. They had a strong appetency for reading. Merivale.

To make hungry; to whet the appetite of. Sir W. Scott.

Something which creates or whets an appetite.

Exciting appetite; as, appetizing food. The appearance of the wild ducks is very appetizing. Sir W. Scott.

One who apples for something; one who makes request; a petitioner. The applicant for a cup of water. Plumtre. The court require the applicant to appear in person. Z. Swift.

Want of appetite; loathing of food.

To request; to seek to obtain by words; to petition; to solicit; - - often with of, in the sense of from, before the person addressed. Ask counsel, we pray thee, of God. Judg. xviii. 5. If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you. John xv. 7.…

One who asks; a petitioner; an inquirer. Shak.

The act of inquiring or requesting; a petition; solicitation. Longfellow.

en, as heat, pain, or grief; to appease or pacify, as passion or tumult; to satisfy, as appetite or desire. Refreshing winds the summer's heat assuage. Addison. To assuage the sorrows of a desolate old man Burke. The fount at which the panting mind assuages Her thirst of knowledge. Byron.

Having a keen appetite or desire; eager; longing. "Athirst for battle." Cowper.

In counterpoint and fugue, a repetition of the subject in tones of twice the original length. Augmentation court (Eng. Hist.), a court erected by Stat. 27 Hen. VIII., to augment to revenues of the crown by the suppression of monasteries. It was long ago dissolved. Encyc. Brit.

Greediness; strong appetite; eagerness; intenseness of desire; as, to eat with avidity. His books were received and read with avidity. Milward.