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Hasty notion; intuitive preconception. Many men give themselves up to the first anticipations of their minds. Locke.

Tending to prevent the formation of urinary calculi, or to destroy them when formed. -- n.

A cover for the back or arms of a chair or sofa, etc., to prevent them from being soiled by macassar or other oil from the hair.

A book of antiphons or anthems.

An anthem or psalm sung alternately by a choir or congregation divided into two parts. Also figuratively. O! never more for me shall winds intone, With all your tops, a vast antiphony. R. Browning.

ver know of anything so unlucky A. Trollope. They do not know that anything is amiss with them. W. G. Sumner.

, when the cable has been sufficiently hove in to bring the ship over it, and the ship is them said to be hove apeak. [Spelt also apeek.]

To apostatize. [Obs.] We are not of them which apostate from Christ. Bp. Hall.

witnesses, and sent forth to preach the gospel. He called unto him his disciples, and of them he chose twelve, whom also he named apostles. Luke vi. 13.

itle; a descriptive name. God chosen it for one of his appellatives to be the Defender of them. Jer. Taylor.

the cover of an apple turnover) as to prevent any one from getting at his length between them. Halliwell, Conybeare. -- Apple-pie order, perfect order or arrangement. [Colloq.] Halliwell.

pplied each place so fast. Chapman. Applied chemistry. See under Chemistry. -- Applied mathematics. See under Mathematics.

To assign, designate, or set apart by authority. Aaron and his shall go in, and appoint them every one to his service. Num. iv. 19. These were cities appointed for all the children of Israel, and for the stranger that sojourneth among them. Josh. xx. 9.

A person appointed. The commission authorizes them to make appointments, and pay the appointees. Circular of Mass. Representatives (1768).

e state of two nouns or pronouns, put in the same case, without a connecting word between them; as, I admire Cicero, the orator. Here, the second noun explains or characterizes the first. Growth by apposition (Physiol.), a mode of growth characteristic of non vascular tissues, in which nutritive matter from the blood i…

he violently apprehended it. Fuller. The eternal laws, such as the heroic age apprehended them. Gladstone.

on or felony, together with an accusation of his accomplish and a giving evidence against them in order to obtain his own pardon. The term is no longer in use; it corresponded to what is now known as turning king's (or queen's) evidence in England, and state's evidence in the United States. Burrill. Bouvier.…

, or other stuff, worn on the fore part of the body, to keep the clothes clean, to defend them from injury, or as a covering. It is commonly tied at the waist by strings.

more distant is called the higher apsis; the other, the lower apsis; and the line joining them, the line of apsides.

A shelly plate found in the terminal chambers of ammonite shells. Some authors consider them to be jaws; others, opercula.