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Any tree genus Pyrus which has the stalk sunken into the base of the fruit; an apple tree.

e made of apples (usually sliced or stewed) with spice and sugar. Apple-pie bed, a bed in which, as a joke, the sheets are so doubled (like the cover of an apple turnover) as to prevent any one from getting at his length between them. Halliwell, Conybeare. -- Apple-pie order, perfect order or arrangement. [Colloq.] Ha…

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

Applied or put to some use. Those applicate sciences which extend the power of man over the elements. I. Taylor. Applicate number (Math.), one which applied to some concrete case. -- Applicate ordinate, right line applied at right angles to the axis of any conic section, and bounded by the curve.

The thing applied. He invented a new application by which blood might be stanched. Johnson.

That which applies.

He who, or that which, applies.

Ornamented with a pattern (which has been cut out of another color or stuff) applied or transferred to a foundation; as, appliqué lace; appliqué work.

whatsoever my lord the king shall appoint. 2 Sam. xv. 15. He hath appointed a day, in the which he will judge the world in righteousness. Acts xvii. 31. Say that the emperor request a parley . . . and appoint the meeting. Shak.

intment") a person to enjoy an estate or other specific property; also, the instrument by which the designation is made.

wth by apposition (Physiol.), a mode of growth characteristic of non vascular tissues, in which nutritive matter from the blood is transformed on the surface of an organ into solid unorganized substance.

The faculty by which ideas are conceived; understanding; as, a man of dull apprehension.

mechanic, or other person, for a certain time, with a view to learn the art, or trade, in which his master is bound to instruct him.

The service or condition of an apprentice; the state in which a person is gaining instruction in a trade or art, under legal agreement.

A way, passage, or avenue by which a place or buildings can be approached; an access. Macaulay.

The application of payment of money by a debtor to his creditor, to one of several debts which are due from the former to the latter. Chitty.

fectly accurate; as, approximate results or values. Approximate quantities (Math.), those which are nearly, but not, equal.

One who, or that which, approximates.

nd. Point d'appui. Etym: [F., a point of support.] (Mil.) (a) A given point or body, upon which troops are formed, or by which are marched in line or column. (b) An advantageous defensive support, as a castle, morass, wood, declivity, etc.

That which belongs to something else; an adjunct; an appendage; an accessory; something annexed to another thing more worthy; in common parlance and legal acceptation, something belonging to another thing as principal, and which passes as incident to it, as a right of way, or other easement to land; a right of common t…