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To respond to satisfactorily; to meet successfully by way of explanation, argument, or justification, and the like; to refute. No man was able to answer him a word. Matt. xxii. 46. These shifts refuted, answer thine appellant. Milton. The reasoning was not and could not be answered. Macaulay.

The period or state of full expansion in a flower. Gray.

axons . . . worshiped many idols, barbarous in name, some monstrous, all antic for shape. Fuller.

constitutional aversion, to a thing; characterized by antipathy; -- often followed by to. Fuller.

Full of anxiety or disquietude; greatly concerned or solicitous, esp. respecting future or unknown; being in painful suspense; -- applied to persons; as, anxious for the issue of a battle.

Trimmed. [Obs.] Full fresh and new here gear apiked was. Chaucer.

Full demonstration.

Defending by words or arguments; said or written in defense, or by way of apology; regretfully excusing; as, an apologetic essay. "To speak in a subdued and apologetic tone." Macaulay.

Hence: A full collection or set of implements, or utensils, for a given duty, experimental or operative; any complex instrument or appliance, mechanical or chemical, for a specific action or operation; machinery; mechanism.

The quality of being appellative. Fuller.

t first but a buzz, soon got a sting in the king's head, and he violently apprehended it. Fuller. The eternal laws, such as the heroic age apprehended them. Gladstone.

To appropriate. [Obs.] Fuller.

Anything, especially money, thus set apart. The Commons watched carefully over the appropriation. Macaulay.

The station or dignity of an archbishop; archiepiscopacy. Fuller.

Sandy; full of sand. Johnson.

Full of fine sand; like sand. [Obs.]

To debate or discuss; to treat by reasoning; as, the counsel argued the cause before a full court; the cause was well argued.

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

may begin his service in the army reserves or even the home reserves, but then serves the full number of years or up to the age limit. In equipment the organization of the army is into the three great arms of infantry, cavalry, and artillery, together with more or less numerous other branches, such as engineers, medica…

ss; unmitigated; as, an arrant rogue or coward. I discover an arrant laziness in my soul. Fuller.