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A wrong application. Sir T. Browne.

To apply wrongly; to use for a wrong purpose; as, to misapply a name or title; to misapply public money.

Improperly appreciated.

To take in a wrong sense; to misunderstand. Locke.

A mistaking or mistake; wrong apprehension of one's meaning of a fact; misconception; misunderstanding.

By, or with, misapprehension.

To appropriate wrongly; to use for a wrong purpose.

Wrong appropriation; wrongful use.

ypopitys), formerly thought to be parasitic on the roots of pine trees, but more probably saprophytic.

Any plant of several tropical American species of Smilax.

See Parillin.

A deep blue variety of iolite, sometimes used as a gem; -- called also saphir d'eau.

A variety of winter apple of medium size, deep red color, and yellowish flesh of a rich, rather subacid flavor.

To swallow up; to engulf; to overwhelm; to cause to disappear as if by swallowing up; to use up; to include. "Dark oblivion soon absorbs them all." Cowper. The large cities absorb the wealth and fashion. W. Irving.

he act or process of absorbing or sucking in anything, or of being absorbed and made to disappear; as, the absorption of bodies in a whirlpool, the absorption of a smaller tribe into a larger.

To put to a wrong use; to misapply; to misuse; to put to a bad use; to use for a wrong purpose or end; to pervert; as, to abuse inherited gold; to make an excessive use of; as, to abuse one's authority. This principle (if one may so abuse the word) shoots rapidly into popularity. Froude.

Wrongly used; perverted; misapplied. I am . . . necessitated to use the word Parliament improperly, according to the abusive acceptation thereof. Fuller.

The white and softer part of wood, between the inner bark and the hard wood or duramen; sapwood.

ing the quality of nourishing; furnishing the materials for natural growth; as, alimental sap.

lso allice shad or allis shad. The name is sometimes applied to the American shad (Clupea sapidissima). See Shad.