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be in sight; to be in view; to become visible. And God . . . said, Let . . . the dry land appear. Gen. i. 9.

The act of appearing or coming into sight; the act of becoming visible to the eye; as, his sudden appearance surprised me.

One who appears. Sir T. Browne.

Apparently. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.

To cease to appear or to be perceived; to pass from view, gradually or suddenly; to vanish; to be no longer seen; as, darkness disappears at the approach of light; a ship disappears as she sails from port.

The act of disappearing; cessation of appearance; removal from sight; vanishing. Addison.

p. pr. & vb. n. of Disappear.

Default of apperance, as in court, to prosecute or defend; failure to appear.

To appear again.

A second or new appearance; the act or state of appearing again.

To swallow up; to engulf; to overwhelm; to cause to disappear as if by swallowing up; to use up; to include. "Dark oblivion soon absorbs them all." Cowper. The large cities absorb the wealth and fashion. W. Irving.

e act or process of absorbing or sucking in anything, or of being absorbed and made to disappear; as, the absorption of bodies in a whirlpool, the absorption of a smaller tribe into a larger.

One of a sect who appeared in France and Spain in the 3d century.

ice or custom; offense; crime; fault; as, the abuses in the civil service. Abuse after disappeared without a struggle.. Macaulay.

Unusual appearance or effect. [Obs.] Chaucer.

mples: adduce, adhere, adjacent, admit, advent, accord, affect, aggregate, allude, annex, appear, etc. It becomes ac- before qu, as in acquiesce.

Having the form or appearance of adipocere; as, an adipoceriform tumor.

ascus. 2 Kings xvi. 11. Against the sun, in a direction contrary to that in which the sun appears to move.

To make appear great or greater; to exalt. Lamb.

a purpose, or to prevent or to remove evil; to help; to assist. You speedy helpers . . . Appear and aid me in this enterprise. Shak.