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To show approval of by clapping the hands, acclamation, or other significant sign. I would applaud thee to the very echo, That should applaud again. Shak.

n assenting to the propriety of a thing with some degree of pleasure or satisfaction; approval; sanction; commendation. Many . . . joined in a loud hum of approbation. Macaulay. The silent approbation of one's own breast. Melmoth. Animals . . . love approbation or praise. Darwin.

Approval; commendation. Shak.

A fruit allied to the plum, of an orange color, oval shape, and delicious taste; also, the tree (Prunus Armeniaca of Linnæus) which bears this fruit. By cultivation it has been introduced throughout the temperate zone.

The arrest of a person, or the seizure of his effects; esp., a process by which money or movables in the possession of a third party are attached.

d prickly involucre. The head (to which the name is also applied) is composed of numerous oval scales, inclosing the florets, sitting on a broad receptacle, which, with the fleshy base of the scales, is much esteemed as an article of food.

The felonious removal of goods from the place where they were deposited.

assenting; the act of the mind in admitting or agreeing to anything; concurrence with approval; consent; agreement; acquiescence. Faith is the assent to any proposition, on the credit of the proposer. Locke. The assent, if not the approbation, of the prince. Prescott. Too many people read this ribaldry with assent and…

Any step wrongly innovated or attempted in a suit by an inferior judge.

The movable front to a helmet; the ventail.

A dismissing or a quitting; removal; withdrawal.

The sudden removal of lands or soil from the estate of one man to that of another by an inundation or a current, or by a sudden change in the course of a river by which a part of the estate of one man is cut off and joined to the estate of another. The property in the part thus separated, or cut off, continues in the o…

The arched handle of a kettle, pail, or similar vessel, usually movable. Forby.

A movable roof sliding on four posts, to cover hay, straw, etc. [Local, U.S.]

The pedicel on which the ovary of certain flowers, as the passion flower, is seated; a carpophore or thecaphore.

A circular or oval valley, or depression of the surface of the ground, the lowest part of which is generally occupied by a lake, or traversed by a river.

The movable bar of a loom, which strikes home or closes the threads of a woof.

A kind of movable dam, in one form consisting of two leaves resting against each other at the top when raised and folding down one over the other when lowered, for deepening shallow parts in a river.

A movable tower erected by besiegers for purposes of attack and defense.

A small, oval, transparent jellyfish, belonging to the Ctenophora.