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o make use of, declare, or pronounce, as suitable, fitting, or relative; as, to apply the testimony to the case; to apply an epithet to a person. Yet God at last To Satan, first in sin, his doom applied. Milton.

To be sensible of; to distinguish. To test the power of bappreciate color. Lubbock.

Proof; attestation. [Obs.] Shak.

One of the two points of an orbit, as of a planet or satellite, which are at the greatest and least distance from the central body, corresponding to the aphelion and perihelion of a planet, or to the apogee and perigee of the moon. The more distant is called the higher apsis; the other, the lower apsis; and the line jo…

Chief; eminent; greatest; principal. The most arch act of piteous massacre. Shak.

Any place of public contest or exertion; any sphere of action; as, the arenaof debate; the arena of life.

omposed of the best citizens. [Obs.] In the Senate Right not our quest in this, I will protest them To all the world, no aristocracy. B. Jonson.

ompanied by colicky pains and diarrhea, caused by the presence of ascarids in the gastrointestinal canal.

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.

ent times, from one note to another more acute, etc.; as, our inquiries ascend to the remotest antiquity; to ascend to our first progenitor.

the Populus tremula, so called from the trembling of its leaves, which move with the slightest impulse of the air.

cetyl and salicylic acid used as a drug for the salicylic acid liberated from it in the intestines.

Examination and determination; test; as, an assay of bread or wine. [Obs.] This can not be, by no assay of reason. Shak.

The act or process of testing, esp. of analyzing or examining metals and ores, to determine the proportion of pure metal.

Together. [Obs.] Spenser. He and Aufidius can no more atone Than violentest contrariety. Shak.

One fitted for, or skilled in, intellectual contests; as, athletes of debate.

A cavity in ascidians into which the intestine and generative ducts open, and which also receives the water from the gills. See Ascidioidea.

corum, or Augsburg, by Luther and Melanchthon, in 1530, contains the principles of the Protestants, and their reasons for separating from the Roman Catholic church.

Vested with all due formalities, and legally attested.

To render authentic; to give authority to, by the proof, attestation, or formalities required by law, or sufficient to entitle to credit. The king serves only as a notary to authenticate the choice of judges. Burke.