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A pie 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.…

To approach. [Archaic] Ld. Lytton.

A drawing nigh; approach. [R.] Bp. Hall.

Nearness; propinquity. [R.] J. Gregory.

Relating to an archetype; archetypal.

That form of episcopacy in which the chief power is in the hands of archbishops.

Of or pertaining to an archbishop; as, Canterbury is an archiepiscopal see.

The station or dignity of an archbishop; archiepiscopacy. Fuller.

The office of an archbishop; an archbishopric.

The hollow beneath the junction of the arm and shoulder; the axilla.

An arpent. [Obs.] Webster (1623).

A soothsayer of ancient Rome. Same as Aruspex. [Written also haruspice.]

Prognostication by inspection of the entrails of victims slain sacrifice.

A choriambic verse, first used by the Greek poet Asclepias, consisting of four feet, viz., a spondee, two choriambi, and an iambus.

Of, pertaining to, or resembling, plants of the Milkweed family.

uding the milkweed, swallowwort, and some other species having medicinal properties. Asclepias butterfly (Zoöl.), a large, handsome, red and black butterfly (Danais Archippus), found in both hemispheres. It feeds on plants of the genus Asclepias.

A piece of ordnance carrying a 12 pound shot. [Obs.]

A group of Gastropoda, with limpetlike shells, including the abalone shells and keyhole limpets.

Aspiring.

To pronounce with a breathing, an aspirate, or an h sound; as, we aspirate the words horse and house; to aspirate a vowel or a liquid consonant.