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Something which by its shape or use suggests an apron; as, (a) The fat skin covering the belly of a goose or duck. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

A man who wears an apron; a laboring man; a mechanic. [Obs.] Shak.

The string of an apron. To be tied to a wife's or mother's apron strings, to be unduly controlled by a wife or mother. He was so made that he could not submit to be tied to the apron strings even of the best of wives. Macaulay.

Wearing an apron. A cobbler aproned, and a parson gowned. Pope.

The quality an apron can hold.

Without an apron.

Apron. [Obs.] Chaucer.

An apron. [Obs.] "Bakers in their linen bases." Marston.

An apron or covering for the front of the person. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl.

An apron or cover (of leather or rubber cloth) for the driving seat of a vehicle, to protect from rain and mud.

A coarse kind of apron for keeping the clothes clean; a bib. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.] Wright.

of a cannon, a piece of lead laid over the vent to keep the priming dry; -- now called an apron. -- Cap in hand, obsequiously; submissively. -- Cap of liberty. See Liberty cap, under Liberty. -- Cap of maintenance, a cap of state carried before the kings of England at the coronation. It is also carried before the ma…

device for causing material to move steadily from one part of a machine to another, as an apron in a carding machine, or an inner spiral in a grain screen.

il may care, reckless, defiant of authority; -- used adjectively. Longfellow. -- Devil's apron (Bot.), the large kelp (Laminaria saccharina, and L. longicruris) of the Atlantic ocean, having a blackish, leathery expansion, shaped somewhat like an apron. -- Devil's coachhorse. (Zoöl.) (a) The black rove beetle (Ocypus…

One of several pieces fayed across the apron and lapped in the knightheads, or inside planking above the upper deck. Ham. Nav. Encyc.

feed motion. Feed bag, a nose bag containing feed for a horse or mule. -- Feed cloth, an apron for leading cotton, wool, or other fiber, into a machine, as for carding, etc. -- Feed door, a door to a furnace, by which to supply coal. -- Feed head. (a) A cistern for feeding water by gravity to a steam boiler. (b) (Fo…

A moving, inclined, endless apron on which ore is concentrated by a current of water; a kind of buddle.

To cut in a traingular form; to piece with a gore; to provide with a gore; as, to gore an apron.

Smeared or defiled with grease. With greasy aprons, rules, and hammers. Shak.

A genus of great seaweeds with long and broad fronds; kelp, or devil's apron. The fronds commonly grow in clusters, and are sometimes from thirty to fifty feet in length. See Illust. of Kelp.