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e worth of, particularly by persons appointed for the purpose; as, to appraise goods and chattels.

To take hold of with the understanding, that is, to conceive in the mind; to become cognizant of; to understand; to recognize; to consider. This suspicion of Earl Reimund, though at first but a buzz, soon got a sting in the king's head, and he violently apprehended it. Fuller. The eternal laws, such as the heroic age a…

ble of apprehending, or quick to do so; apt; discerning. It may be pardonable to imagine that a friend, a kind and apprehensive . . . friend, is listening to our talk. Hawthorne.

of; as, we will apprise the general of an intended attack; he apprised the commander of what he had done.

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

them in order to obtain his own pardon. The term is no longer in use; it corresponded to what is now known as turning king's (or queen's) evidence in England, and state's evidence in the United States. Burrill. Bouvier.

A value that is nearly but not exactly correct.

One who, or that which, approximates.

A support or supporter; a stay; a prop. [Obs.] If a be to climb trees that are of any great height, there would be stays and appuies set to it. Holland. 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 advant…

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…

s or mother's apron strings, to be unduly controlled by a wife or mother. He was so made that he could not submit to be tied to the apron strings even of the best of wives. Macaulay.

ly; given; ready; -- used of persons. Apter to give than thou wit be to ask. Beau. & Fl. That lofty pity with which prosperous folk are apt to remember their grandfathers. F. Harrison.

A general fitness or suitableness; adaptation. That sociable and helpful aptitude which God implanted between man and woman. Milton.

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

Mucilage, especially that made of gum arabic.

The order of Arachnida that includes the spiders.

vernment. Dryden. Arbitrary constant, Arbitrary function (Math.), a quantity of function that is introduced into the solution of a problem, and to which any value or form may at will be given, so that the solution may be made to meet special requirements. -- Arbitrary quantity (Math.), one to which any value can be as…

uth. There shall your swords and lances arbitrate The swelling difference of your settled hate. Shak.

nt; the resemblance to a tree in minerals, or crystallizations, or groups of crystals in that form; as, the arborescence produced by precipitating silver.

A chief chamberlain; -- an officer of the old German empire, whose office was similar to that of the great chamberlain in England.