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pparent friendship. Macaulay. What Berkeley calls visible magnitude was by astronomers called apparent magnitude. Reid. Apparent horizon, the circle which in a level plain bounds our view, and is formed by the apparent meeting of the earth and heavens, as distinguished from the rational horizon. -- Apparent time. See…

account of alleged injustice or illegality in the trial below. We say, the cause was appealed from an inferior court.

Capable of being appealed against; that may be removed to a higher tribunal for decision; as, the cause is appealable.

A tap or stamp of the foot as a warning of intent to attack; -- called also attack.

One who appealed to a general council against the bull Unigenitus.

The word by which a particular person or thing is called and known; name; title; designation. They must institute some persons under the appellation of magistrates. Hume.

The person who is appealed against, or accused of crime; -- opposed to appellor. Blackstone.

sometimes, intensified or energetic perception. Leibnitz. Reid. This feeling has been called by philosophers the apperception or consciousness of our own existence. Sir W. Hamilton.

ed) 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.] Halliwell.

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

rrister, considered a learner of law till of sixteen years' standing, when he might be called to the rank of serjeant. [Obs.] Blackstone.

sprig or shoot of one tree into another, without cutting it from the parent stock; -- called, also, inarching and grafting by approach.

string of an apron. To be tied to a wife'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.

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, the line of apsides.

or words annexed. Aqua ammoniæ, the aqueous solution of ammonia; liquid ammonia; often called aqua ammonia. -- Aqua marine, or Aqua marina. Same as Aquamarine. -- Aqua regia. Etym: [L., royal water] (Chem.), a very corrosive fuming yellow liquid consisting of nitric and hydrochloric acids. It has the power of dissolv…

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

water and lie in strata, as opposed to volcanic rocks, which are of igneous origin; -- called also sedimentary rocks.

Of or pertaining to Aquitania, now called Gascony.

Relating to, or exhibiting, the style of ornament called arabesque; as, arabesque frescoes.

Fit for plowing or tillage; -- hence, often applied to land which has been plowed or tilled.