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To make application for the removal of (a cause) from an inferior to a superior judge or court for a rehearing or review on account of alleged injustice or illegality in the trial below. We say, the cause was appealed from an inferior court.

harge, plead a cause, or the like; to present one's self as a party or advocate before a court, or as a person to be tried. We must all appear before the judgment seat. * Cor. v. 10. One ruffian escaped because no prosecutor dared to appear. Macaulay.

storian, an artist, or an orator. Will he now retire, After appearance, and again prolong Our expectation Milton.

e of, appeals. "Appellate jurisdiction." Blackstone. "Appellate judges." Burke. Appelate court, a court having cognizance of appeals.

. Reid. This feeling has been called by philosophers the apperception or consciousness of our own existence. Sir W. Hamilton.

words; to express approbation of; to commend; to approve. By the gods, I do applaud his courage. Shak.

ing; 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.

lying as a means; the employment of means to accomplish an end; specific use. If a right course . . . be taken with children, there will not be much need of the application of the common rewards and punishments. Locke.

To make request; to have recourse with a view to gain something; to make application. (to); to solicit; as, to apply to a friend for information.

These were cities appointed for all the children of Israel, and for the stranger that sojourneth among them. Josh. xx. 9.

An examiner; one whose business is to put questions. Formerly, in the English Court of Exchequer, an officer who audited the sheriffs' accounts.

ardonable to imagine that a friend, a kind and apprehensive . . . friend, is listening to our talk. Hawthorne.

The time an apprentice is serving (sometimes seven years, as from the age of fourteen to twenty-one).

To quicken; to prompt. [Obs.] To appromt our invention. Bacon.

What is peculiarly one's own; peculiar qualification.[Obs.] If you can neglect Your own appropriaments. Ford.

worship. Stillingfleet. It is not at all times easy to find words appropriate to express our ideas. Locke.

To sanction officially; to ratify; to confirm; as, to approve the decision of a court-martial.

Approbation. I did nothing without your approvement. Hayward.

The fourth month of the year.

To fit; to suit; to adapt. [Obs.] " To apt their places." B. Jonson. That our speech be apted to edification. Jer. Taylor.