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A driving or striking against; an appulse.

Basking in the sun. [R.]

An article of dress, of cloth, leather, or other stuff, worn on the fore part of the body, to keep the clothes clean, to defend them from injury, or as a covering. It is commonly tied at the waist by strings.

A man who wears an apron; a laboring man; a mechanic. [Obs.] Shak.

The 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.

Wearing an apron. A cobbler aproned, and a parson gowned. Pope.

The quality an apron can hold.

Without an apron.

The north wind. [Obs.] Shak.

Of or pertaining to Aragon, in Spain, or to its inhabitants. -- n. sing. & pl.

A mineral identical in composition with calcite or carbonate of lime, but differing from it in its crystalline form and some of its physical characters.

Plowing; tillage. [R.] Lands are said to be in a state of aration when they are under tillage. Brande.

The hearing and determination of a cause between parties in controversy, by a person or persons chosen by the parties.

The appearance or figure of a tree or plant, as in minerals or fossils; a dendrite.

A wedge-shaped stone used in an arch; a voussoir.

, whom he assists, and by whom he is appointed, though with independent authority. Blackstone.

The district, office, or residence of an archdeacon. See Benefice. Every diocese is divided into archdeaconries. Blackstone.

The office of an archdeacon.

Relating to the archegonium.

The pistillidium or female organ in the higher cryptogamic plants, corresponding to the pistil in flowering plants.