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To depress or discourage with fear; to impress with fear in such a manner that the mind shrinks, or loses its firmness; to overcome with sudden terror or horror; to dismay; as, the sight appalled the stoutest heart. The house of peers was somewhat appalled at this alarum. Clarendon.

Hence: A full collection or set of implements, or utensils, for a given duty, experimental or operative; any complex instrument or appliance, mechanical or chemical, for a specific action or operation; machinery; mechanism.

At public devotion his resigned carriage made religion appear in the natural apparel of simplicity. Tatler.

To impeach; to accuse; to asperse; to inform against; to reproach. [Obs.] And oft of error did himself appeach. Spenser.

That appeals; imploring. -- Ap*peal"*ing*ly, adv. -- Ap*peal"ing*ness, n.

likeness; external show. pl. Outward signs, or circumstances, fitted to make a particular impression or to determine the judgment as to the character of a person or a thing, an act or a state; as, appearances are against him. There was upon the tabernacle, as it were, the appearance of fire. Num. ix. 15. For man looket…

A pimp; a kept gallant. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl.

A bringer in; an importer. [Obs.] Sir M. Hale.

f things, without affirming, denying, or passing any judgment; intellection; perception. Simple apprehension denotes no more than the soul's naked intellection of an object. Glanvill.

Relating to the faculty of apprehension. Judgment . . . is implied in every apprehensive act. Sir W. Hamilton.

Impossible to be approached.

Approving, or implying approbation. Milner.

A spiritual corporation possessed of an appropriated benefice; also, an impropriator.

Improvement of common lands, by inclosing and converting them to the uses of husbandry for the advantage of the lord of the manor. Blackstone.

A driving or running towards; approach; impulse; also, the act of striking against. In all consonants there is an appulse of the organs. Holder.

Striking against; impinging; as, the appulsive influence of the planets. P. Cyc.

Annexed or pertaining to some more important thing; accessory; incident; as, a right of way appurtenant to land or buildings. Blackstone. Common appurtenatn. (Law) See under Common, n.

, etc. The April's her eyes; it is love's spring. Shak. April fool, one who is sportively imposed upon by others on the first day of April.

general fitness or suitableness; adaptation. That sociable and helpful aptitude which God implanted between man and woman. Milton.

bstance by steeping it in water. -- Aqueous humor (Anat.), one the humors of the eye; a limpid fluid, occupying the space between the crystalline lens and the cornea. (See Eye.) -- Aqueous rocks (Geol.), those which are deposited from water and lie in strata, as opposed to volcanic rocks, which are of igneous origin;…