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

Applied or put 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.

A person in whose favor a power of appointment is executed. Kent. Wharton.

An examiner; one whose business is to put questions. Formerly, in the English Court of Exchequer, an officer who audited the sheriffs' accounts.

Approbation; sanction. A censor . . . without whose approval nTemple.

t perfectly accurate; as, approximate results or values. Approximate quantities (Math.), those which are nearly, but not, equal.

space between the crystalline lens and the cornea. (See Eye.) -- Aqueous rocks (Geol.), those which are deposited from water and lie in strata, as opposed to volcanic rocks, which are of igneous origin; -- called also sedimentary rocks.

e 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.

A person appointed, or chosen, by parties to determine a controversy between them.

ring and determination of a cause between parties in controversy, by a person or persons chosen by the parties.

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

A mountainous and picturesque district of Greece, in the heart of the Peloponnesus, whose people were distinguished for contentment and rural happiness.

A chief chamberlain; -- an officer of the old German empire, whose office was similar to that of the great chamberlain in England.

Steep and lofty, in a literal sense; hard to climb. Those arduous pats they trod. Pope.

in color or structure, as the spaces bounded by the nervures of the wings of insects, or those by the veins of leaves; an areola.

The independent variable upon whose value that of a function depends. Brande & C.

A species of shell (Cypræa argus), beautifully variegated with spots resembling those in a peacock's tail.

s or chief persons in a state; a privileged class or patrician order; (in a popular use) those who are regarded as superior to the rest of the community, as in rank, fortune, or intellect.

ranches, such as engineers, medical corps, etc., besides the staff organizations such as those of the pay and subsistence departments.

A rude apparatus for pulverizing ores, esp. those containing free gold.