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

Semblance, or apparent 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.…

A tap or stamp of the foot as a warning of intent to attack; -- called also attack.

Pertaining to, or taking cognizance of, appeals. "Appellate jurisdiction." Blackstone. "Appellate judges." Burke. Appelate court, a court having cognizance of appeals.

Pertaining to a common name; serving as a distinctive denomination; denominative; naming. Cudworth.

To hang or attach to, as by a string, so that the thing is suspended; as, a seal appended to a record; the inscription was appended to the column.

not necessary to it, as a portico to a house. Modesty is the appendage of sobriety. Jer. Taylor.

Hanging; annexed; adjunct; concomitant; as, a seal appendant to a paper. As they have transmitted the benefit to us, it is but reasonable we should suffer the appendant calamity. Jer. Taylor.

A genus of small free-swimming Tunicata, shaped somewhat like a tadpole, and remarkable for resemblances to the larvæ of other Tunicata. It is the type of the order Copelata or Larvalia. See Illustration in Appendix.

ong desire; an eagerness or longing. It God had given to eagles an appetite to swim. Jer. Taylor. To gratify the vulgar appetite for the marvelous. Macaulay.

The act of applauding; approbation and praise publicly expressed by clapping the hands, stamping or tapping with the feet, acclamation, huzzas, or other means; marked commendation. The brave man seeks not popular applause. Dryden.

to some use. Those applicate sciences which extend the power of man over the elements. I. Taylor. Applicate number (Math.), one which applied to some concrete case. -- Applicate ordinate, right line applied at right angles to the axis of any conic section, and bounded by the curve.

The thing applied. He invented a new application by which blood might be stanched. Johnson.

To take or seize; to take hold of. [Archaic] We have two hands to apprehended it. Jer. Taylor.

The act of seizing or taking hold of; seizure; as, the hand is an organ of apprehension. Sir T. Browne.

nable to imagine that a friend, a kind and apprehensive . . . friend, is listening to our talk. Hawthorne.

ense; to make advances; to approximate; as, he approaches to the character of the ablest statesman.

Set apart for a particular use or person. Hence: Belonging peculiarly; peculiar; suitable; fit; proper. In its strict and appropriate meaning. Porteus. Appropriate acts of divine worship. Stillingfleet. It is not at all times easy to find words appropriate to express our ideas. Locke.

The act of setting apart or assigning to a particular use or person, or of taking to one's self, in exclusion of all others; application to a special use or purpose, as of a piece of ground for a park, or of money to carry out some object.

largest capacity and the most noble dispositions are but an approximation to the proper standard and true symmetry of human nature. I. Taylor.