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Showing anger; proceeding from anger; acting as if moved by anger; wearing the marks of anger; as, angry words or tones; an angry sky; angry waves. "An angry countenance." Prov. xxv. 23.

Bearing or having antennæ.

Flower bearing; supporting the flower.

Rearing of bees for their honey and wax.

Appearing to the eye or mind (distinguished from, but not necessarily opposed to, true or real); seeming; as the apparent motion or diameter of the sun. To live on terms of civility, and even of apparent friendship. Macaulay. What Berkeley calls visible magnitude was by astronomers called apparent magnitude. Reid. Appa…

The thing appearing; a visible object; a form. Which apparition, it seems, was you. Tatler.

ation for the removal of (a cause) from an inferior to a superior judge or court for a rehearing or review on account of alleged injustice or illegality in the trial below. We say, the cause was appealed from an inferior court.

The act of appearing or coming into sight; the act of becoming visible to the eye; as, his sudden appearance surprised me.

One who appeals, or asks for a rehearing or review of a cause by a higher tribunal.

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

Despotic; absolute in power; bound by no law; harsh and unforbearing; tyrannical; as, an arbitrary prince or government. Dryden. Arbitrary constant, Arbitrary function (Math.), a quantity of function that is introduced into the solution of a problem, and to which any value or form may at will be given, so that the solu…

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

se- colored flowers with a delicate fragrance, growing in small axillary clusters, and appearing early in the spring; in New England known as mayflower; -- called also ground laurel. Gray.

One who is overbearing in his temper or habits; a proud or haughty person. A born aristocrat, bred radical. Mrs. Browning.

A chest, or coffer. [Obs.] Bearing that precious relic in an ark. Spenser.

Bearing arms or weapons. [R.]

d other services. In later use, one next in degree to a knight, and entitled to armorial bearings. The term is now superseded by esquire. Jacob.

Bearing arms. [R.] They belonged to the armigerous part of the population, and were entitled to write themselves Esquire. De Quincey.

utcheon of a family. Figures with armorial signs of race and birth. Wordsworth. Armorial bearings. See Arms, 4.

Ensigns armorial; armorial bearings. Spensplw.