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The quality of being appellative. Fuller.

Containing an appeal. An appellatory libel ought to contain the name of the party appellant. Ayliffe.

An order of annelids; the Polychæta.

Having small appendages; forming an appendage. Appendiculate leaf, a small appended leaf. Withering.

Adorned with eagles' heads.

An archbishop or other chief prelate.

Divided into small spaces or areolations, as the wings of insects, the leaves of plants, or the receptacle of compound flowers.

Division into areolæ. Dana.

Having an aril.

A soothsaying; a foretelling. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

Pertaining a short beard or awn. Gray.

Covered with defensive plates of metal, as a ship of war; steel-clad. This day will be launched . . . the first armor-plated steam frigate in the possession of Great Britain. Times (Dec. 29, 1860).

One of the four subkingdoms in the classification of Cuvier. It has been much modified by later writers.

Jointed; formed with joints; consisting of segments united by joints; as, articulate animals or plants.

United by, or provided with, articulations; jointed; as, an articulated skeleton.

Article by article; in distinct particulars; in detail; definitely. Paley. I had articulately set down in writing our points. Fuller.

Quality of being articulate.

The state of being jointed; connection of parts. [R.] That definiteness and articulation of imagery. Coleridge.

Of or pertaining to articulation. Bush.

One who, or that which, articulates; as: (a) One who enunciates distinctly. (b) One who prepares and mounts skeletons. (c) An instrument to cure stammering.