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One who appraises; esp., a person appointed and sworn to estimate and fix the value of goods or estates.

To give notice, verbal or written; to inform; -- followed by of; as, we will apprise the general of an intended attack; he apprised the commander of what he had done.

An a priori principle.

two points of an orbit, as of a planet or satellite, which are at the greatest and least distance from the central body, corresponding to the aphelion and perihelion of a planet, or to the apogee and perigee of the moon. The more distant is called the higher apsis; the other, the lower apsis; and the line joining them,…

Nitric acid. [Archaic]

A painter in thin transparent water colors.

An Arabic idiom peculiarly of language. Stuart.

One well versed in the Arabic language or literature; also, formerly, one who followed the Arabic system of surgery.

Inflammation of the arachnoid membrane.

One who is versed in, or studies, arachnology.

To raise. [Obs.] Shak.

An idiom of the Aramaic.

A crossbow, consisting of a steel bow set in a shaft of wood, furnished with a string and a trigger, and a mechanical device for bending the bow. It served to throw arrows, darts, bullets, etc. [Written also arbalet and arblast.] Fosbroke.

A crossbowman. [Obs.] Speed.

One who cultivates trees.

One who makes trees his study, or who is versed in the knowledge of trees. Howell.

One versed in archæology; an antiquary. Wright.

iquity of style or use; obsoleteness. A select vocabulary corresponding (in point of archaism and remoteness from ordinary use) to our Scriptural vocabulary. De Quincey.

One who uses archaisms.

Like, or imitative of, anything archaic; pertaining to an archaism.