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club like the iron, but with a shorter head, slightly more lofted, used chiefly for short approaches.

Approaching maturity.

Approaching maturity; as, maturing fruits; maturing notes of hand.

To join, or come in contact with; esp., to come in contact with by approach from an opposite direction; to come upon or against, front to front, as distinguished from contact by following and overtaking.

Coarse, watery vapor, floating or falling in visible particles, approaching the form of rain; as, Scotch mist.

cle, or in doing a specific art required, by music which is made more loud or rapid as he approaches success, and slower as he recedes. Tennyson. -- Music box. See Musical box, under Musical. -- Music hall, a place for public musical entertainments. -- Music loft, a gallery for musicians, as in a dancing room or a c…

To approach; to come nearer; as, the ship neared the land.

To draw nigh (to); to approach; to come near. [Obs.] Wyclif (Matt. iii. 2).

Approaching toward night.

Growing black; changing to a black color; approaching to blackness. Johnson.

s our present north star, being distant from the pole about 1º 25', and from year to year approaching slowly nearer to it. It is called also Cynosura, polestar, and by astronomers, Polaris.

ion of that nuptial, which We two have sworn shall come. Shak. Preparations . . . for the approaching nuptials. Prescott.

Approaching the color of the olive; of a peculiar dark brownish, yellowish, or tawny green.

jects; as, open houses, boxes, baskets, bottles, etc.; also, to means of communication or approach by water or land; as, an open harbor or roadstead. Through the gate, Wide open and unquarded, Satan passed. Milton

The condition or quality of being opposable. In no savage have I ever seen the slightest approach to opposability of the great toe, which is the essential distinguishing feature of apes. A. R. Wallace.

A yellow pigment of various degrees of intensity, approaching also to red.

ard or small body of troops at a distance from the main body of an army, to watch for the approach of an enemy; hence, anything for defense placed at a distance from the thing to be defended.

A sentry who guards the entrance or approach to a place; an outguard.

its plane is placed vertically, a body descending along it, by the force of gravity, will approach to, or recede from, a fixed point or center, by equal distances in equal times; -- called also a paracentric. -- Paracentric motton or velocity, the motion or velocity of a revolving body, as a planet, by which it approa…

near the Caribbee Islands; - - so called because its presence indicates to mariners their approach to these islands. Crabb. (b) The black-bellied plover. [Local, U.S.] -- Pilot boat, a strong, fast-sailing boat used to carry and receive pilots as they board and leave vessels. -- Pilot bread, ship biscuit. -- Pilot cl…