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To anoint. [Obs.] Dryden.

That which serves to anoint; any soft unctuous substance used for smearing or anointing; an unguent.

An adjunct; a helper. [Obs.]

unctuous substance; also, to spread over, as oil. And fragrant oils the stiffened limbs anoint. Dryden. He anointed the eyes of the blind man with the clay. John ix. 6.

One who anoints.

The act of anointing, or state of being anointed; also, an ointment. Milton.

To fix with power or firmness; to establish; to mark out. When he appointed the foundations of the earth. Prov. viii. 29.

Capable of being appointed or constituted.

A person appointed. The commission authorizes them to make appointments, and pay the appointees. Circular of Mass. Representatives (1768).

One who appoints, or executes a power of appointment. Kent.

Subject to appointment; as, an appointive office. [R.]

The act of appointing; designation of a person to hold an office or discharge a trust; as, he erred by the appointment of unsuitable men.

The person who selects the appointee. See Appointee, 2.

Stand off, or begone. [Obs.] Aroint thee, witch, the rump-fed ronyon cries. Shak.

A rebate or chase in masonry left to receive a permanent slab or other filling.

A child's game. [Obs.]

Terminating in a very fine, sharp point, as some leaves.

A joint in which the edges or ends of the pieces united come squarely together instead of overlapping. See 1st Butt, 8.

A joint between two pieces of timber or wood, at the end of one or both, and either at right angles or oblique to the grain, as the joints which the struts and braces form with the truss posts; -- sometimes called abutting joint.

Equal in intensity or degree; as, the relations between 6 and 12, and 8 and 16, are cointense. H. Spencer.