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log attached to a frame extending several feet to windward. It has been called the flying proa, and is the swiftest sailing craft known.

See Approach. [Obs.]

A vertebral rudiment in front of the atlas in some reptiles.

To come or go near, in place or time; to draw nigh; to advance nearer. Wherefore approached ye so nigh unto the city 2 Sam. xi. 20. But exhorting one another; and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching. Heb. x. 25.

The quality of being approachable; approachableness.

Capable of being approached; accessible; as, approachable virtue.

The quality or state of being approachable; accessibility.

One who approaches.

r, without cutting it from the parent stock; -- called, also, inarching and grafting by approach.

Impossible to be approached.

Approach. [Archaic] Holland.

A salt of caproic acid.

Not approachable; unapproachable; inaccessible; unequaled. -- In`ap*proach"a*bly, adv.

Not reproachable; above reproach; not deserving reproach; blameless. He [Berkely] erred, -- and who is free from error -- but his intentions were irreproachable. Beattie.

The quality or state of being irreproachable; integrity; innocence.

In an irreproachable manner; blamelessly.

See Fatherlasher.

Provender or food. [Obs.] One pease was a soldier's provant a whole day. Beau. & Fl.

To approach again or anew.

grace. [Obs.] I thought your marriage fit; else imputation, For that he knew you, might reproach your life. Shak.