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pproach my cabin; he approached the age of manhood. He was an admirable poet, and thought even to have approached Homer. Temple.

The severing or sequestering of a benefice to the perpetual use of a spiritual corporation. Blackstone.

ry or advance near; to cause to approach. To approximate the inequality of riches to the level of nature. Burke.

use, barn, garden, or orchard, to a house or messuage. In a strict legal sense, land can never pass as an appurtenance to land. Tomlins. Bouvier. Burrill. Globes . . . provided as appurtenances to astronomy. Bacon. The structure of the eye, and of its appurtenances. Reid.

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.

Insects without wings, constituting the seventh Linnæn order of insects, an artificial group, which included Crustacea, spiders, centipeds, and even worms. These animals are now placed in several distinct classes and orders.

Without fever; -- applied to days when there is an intermission of fever. Dunglison.

The absence or intermission of fever.

The Water-bearer; 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.

A South American bird, of the genus Pleroglossius, allied to the toucans. There are several species.

Determination; decision; arbitration. The arbitrament of time. Everett. Gladly at this moment would MacIvor have put their quarrel to personal arbitrament. Sir W. Scott.

It was wholly arbitrary in them to do so. Jer. Taylor. Rank pretends to fix the value of every one, and is the most arbitrary of all things. Landor.

To act as arbitrator or judge; as, to arbitrate upon several reports;; to arbitrate in disputes among heighbors; to arbitrate between parties to a suit.

An evergreen tree of the cypress tribe, genus Thuja. The American species is the T. occidentalis.

One who plants or who prunes trees. [Obs.] Evelyn.

rystallizations disposed like the branches and twigs of a tree. "Arborescent hollyhocks." Evelyn.

The strawberry tree, a genus of evergreen shrubs, of the Heath family. It has a berry externally resembling the strawberry; the arbute tree. Trailing arbutus (Bot.), a creeping or trailing plant of the Heath family (Epigæa repens), having white or usually rose- colored flowers with a delicate fragrance, growing in smal…

A term applied to several different species of plants (Angelica archangelica, Lamium album, etc.).

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

A violet dye obtained from several species of lichen (Roccella tinctoria, etc.), which grow on maritime rocks in the Canary and Cape Verd Islands, etc. Tomlinson.