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to a paper. As they have transmitted the benefit to us, it is but reasonable we should suffer the appendant calamity. Jer. Taylor.

The act of directing or referring something to a particular case, to discover or illustrate agreement or disagreement, fitness, or correspondence; as, I make the remark, and leave you to make the application; the application of a theory.

amented with a pattern (which has been cut out of another color or stuff) applied or transferred to a foundation; as, appliqué lace; appliqué work.

To betake; to address; to refer; -- used reflexively. I applied myself to him for help. Johnson.

To be apprehensive; to fear. It is worse to apprehend than to suffer. Rowe.

Fig.: With reference to April being the month in which vegetation begins to put forth, the variableness of its weather, 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.

In a curve referred to polar coördinates, any point for which the radius vector is a maximum or minimum.

A mineral identical in composition with calcite or carbonate of lime, but differing from it in its crystalline form and some of its physical characters.

A genus of tall conifers of the pine family. The species are confined mostly to South America and Australia. The wood cells differ from those of other in having the dots in their lateral surfaces in two or three rows, and the dots of contiguous rows alternating. The seeds are edible.

Relating to, or of the nature of, the Araucaria. The earliest conifers in geological history were mostly Araucarian. Dana.

bills of exchange (see Arbitration of Exchange); also, a traffic in stocks which bear differing values at the same time in different markets.

determine generally. South. There shall your swords and lances arbitrate The swelling difference of your settled hate. Shak.

e of two or more persons, chosen by parties who have a controversy, to determine their differences. See Arbitration.

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

The primitive enteron or undifferentiated digestive sac of a gastrula or other embryo. See Illust. under Invagination.

With reference to the archetype; originally. "Parts archetypally distinct." Dana.

An extinct genus of Bryzoa characteristic of the subcarboniferous rocks. Its form is that of a screw.

Warm, applied to the passions and affections; passionate; fervent; zealous; vehement; as, ardent love, feelings, zeal, hope, temper. An ardent and impetuous race. Macaulay.

The present indicative plural of the substantive verb to be; but etymologically a different word from be, or was. Am, art, are, and is, all come from the root as.

A palm tree (Saguerus saccharifer) which furnishes sago, wine, and fibers for ropes; the gomuti palm.