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Any object, act, state, event, or fact whatever; thing of any kind; something or other; aught; as, I would not do it for anything. Did you ever know of anything so unlucky A. Trollope. They do not know that anything is amiss with them. W. G. Sumner.

The diameter of the exposed part of the object glass of a telescope or other optical instrument; as, a telescope of four-inch aperture.

ere are two such foci; and it is by taking advantage of this fact that the best aplanatic object glasses of microscopes are constructed.

ng more complete than where two rays only are thus focused, as in the ordinary achromatic objective. --Ap`o*chro"ma*tism (#), n.

An instrument for measuring the height of objects. Knight.

The art of measuring the distance of objects afar off. [Obs. or R.]

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

Natural tendency; affinity; attraction; -- used of inanimate objects.

Desirable; capable or worthy of being the object of desire. Bramhall.

The desire for some personal gratification, either of the body or of the mind. The object of appetite it whatsoever sensible good may be wished for; the object of will is that good which reason does lead us to seek. Hooker.

To apply. [Obs.] The act of faith is applicated to the object. Bp. Pearson.

perception. Simple apprehension denotes no more than the soul's naked intellection of an object. Glanvill.

special use or purpose, as of a piece of ground for a park, or of money to carry out some object.

The attainment or reaching of any object, by effort, or in natural course; as, our arrival at this conclusion was wholly unexpected.

To reach a point by progressive motion; to gain or compass an object by effort, practice, study, inquiry, reasoning, or experiment. To arrive at, or attain to. When he arrived at manhood. Rogers. We arrive at knowledge of a law of nature by the generalization of facts. McCosh. If at great things thou wouldst arrive. Mi…

; -- applied esp. to the simpler products of aboriginal art as distinguished from natural objects.

a figurative sense; to proceed from an inferior to a superior degree, from mean to noble objects, from particulars to generals, from modern to ancient times, from one note to another more acute, etc.; as, our inquiries ascend to the remotest antiquity; to ascend to our first progenitor.

The degree of elevation of an object, or the angle it makes with a horizontal line; inclination; rising grade; as, a road has an ascent of five degrees.

One who aspires; one who eagerly seeks some high position or object of attainment. In consequence of the resignations . . . the way to greatness was left clear to a new set of aspirants. Macaulay.

A collection of inanimate objects. [Obs.] Howell.