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a particular person or use, in exclusion of all others; -- with to or for; as, a spot of ground is appropriated for a garden; to appropriate money for the increase of the navy.

f, 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.

rs, and appearing early in the spring; in New England known as mayflower; -- called also ground laurel. Gray.

to support the wall or other weight above an opening. In this sense arches are segmental, round (i. e., semicircular), or pointed.

to have been invented by Archimedes, for raising water, formed by winding a flexible tube round a cylinder in the form of a screw. When the screw is placed in an inclined position, and the lower end immersed in water, by causing the screw to revolve, the water is raised to the upper end. Francis.

The architectural member surrounding the curved opening of an arch, corresponding to the architrave in the case of a square opening.

A mode of propagating trees by bending branches to the ground, and covering the small shoots with earth; layering. Chambers.

Any plane surface, as of the floor of a room or church, or of the ground within an inclosure; an open space in a building. The Alban lake . . . looks like the area of some vast amphitheater. Addison.

The colored ring around the nipple, or around a vesicle or pustule.

To furnish with arms or limbs. [R.] His shoulders broad and strong, Armed long and round. Beau. & Fl.

A parasitic nematoid worm, espec. the roundworm, Ascaris lumbricoides, often occurring in the human intestine and allied species found in domestic animals; also commonly applied to the pinworm (Oxyuris), often troublesome to children and aged persons.

On shore or on land; on the land adjacent to water; to the shore; to the land; aground (when applied to a ship); -- sometimes opposed to aboard or afloat. Here shall I die ashore. Shak. I must fetch his necessaries ashore. Shak.

; gaze; glance. [R.] "The basilisk killeth by aspect." Bacon. His aspect was bent on the ground. Sir W. Scott.

ded; astonished. [Archaic] Spenser. Thus Ellen, dizzy and astound. As sudden ruin yawned around. Sir W. Scott.

A convex molding of rounded surface, generally from half to three quarters of a circle.

An obligation to have the grain growing on certain lands ground at a certain mill, the owner paying a toll. Bell.

nt Being. Atheism is a ferocious system, that leaves nothing above us to excite awe, nor around us to awaken tenderness. R. Hall. Atheism and pantheism are often wrongly confounded. Shipley.

Profound debility of children due to lack of food and to unhygienic surroundings. --A*threp"tic (#), a.

The whole mass of aëriform fluid surrounding the earth; -- applied also to the gaseous envelope of any celestial orb, or other body; as, the atmosphere of Mars.

A coral island or islands, consisting of a belt of coral reef, partly submerged, surrounding a central lagoon or depression; a lagoon island.