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A kind of worsted blanket or wrap.

An assembly; hence, the place of assembly, especially the market place, in an ancient Greek city.

ect, as a missile, an act, or a proceeding, at, to, or against an object; as, to aim a musket or an arrow, the fist or a blow (at something); to aim a satire or a reflection (at some person or vice).

A blank book, in which to insert autographs sketches, memorial writing of friends, photographs, etc.

living beings; swarming; thronged. The Boyne, for a quarter of a mile, was alive with muskets and green boughs. Macaulay.

Praiseworthy; laudable. [Obs.] Hacket.

Of, pertaining to, or resembling, alveoli or little cells, sacs, or sockets. Alveolar processes, the processes of the maxillary bones, containing the sockets of the teeth.

Having the form of alveoli, or little sockets, cells, or cavities.

A small depression, sac, or vesicle, as the socket of a tooth, the air cells of the lungs, the ultimate saccules of glands, etc.

ion. [Now const. with sing. verb.] "An honorable amends." Addison. Yet thus far fortune maketh us amends. Shak.

g firearms and ordnance of all kinds; as powder, balls, shot, shells, percussion caps, rockets, etc.

A bracket supporting a cornice; a console.

or one growing season; requiring to be renewed every year; as, an annual plant; annual tickets. Bacon.

Good against the rickets.

Hence, a brief or detached view; conspectus; sketch.

here was upon the tabernacle, as it were, the appearance of fire. Num. ix. 15. For man looketh on the outward appearance. 1 Sam. xvi. 7. Judge not according to the appearance. John. vii. 24.

To raise the value of; to increase the market price of; -- opposed to depreciate. [U.S.] Lest a sudden peace should appreciate the money. Ramsay.

); also, a traffic in stocks which bear differing values at the same time in different markets.

A large flatboat used on Western American rivers to transport produce to market.

A manufactory of arms, as rifles, muskets, pistols, bayonets, swords. [U.S.]