Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter A - Page 80

Apply (v. i.) To suit; to agree; to have some connection, agreement, or analogy; as, this argument applies well to the case.

Apply (v. i.) To make request; to have recourse with a view to gain something; to make application. (to); to solicit; as, to apply to a friend for information.

Apply (v. i.) To ply; to move.

Apply (v. i.) To apply or address one's self; to give application; to attend closely (to).

Appoggiatura (n.) A passing tone preceding an essential tone, and borrowing the time it occupies from that; a short auxiliary or grace note one degree above or below the principal note unless it be of the same harmony; -- generally indicated by a note of smaller size, as in the illustration above. It forms no essential part of the harmony.

Appointed (imp. & p. p.) of Appoint

Appointing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Appoint

Appoint (v. t.) To fix with power or firmness; to establish; to mark out.

Appoint (v. t.) To fix by a decree, order, command, resolve, decision, or mutual agreement; to constitute; to ordain; to prescribe; to fix the time and place of.

Appoint (v. t.) To assign, designate, or set apart by authority.

Appoint (v. t.) To furnish in all points; to provide with everything necessary by way of equipment; to equip; to fit out.

Appoint (v. t.) To point at by way, or for the purpose, of censure or commendation; to arraign.

Appoint (v. t.) To direct, designate, or limit; to make or direct a new disposition of, by virtue of a power contained in a conveyance; -- said of an estate already conveyed.

Appoint (v. i.) To ordain; to determine; to arrange.

Appointable (a.) Capable of being appointed or constituted.

Appointee (v. t.) A person appointed.

Appointee (v. t.) A person in whose favor a power of appointment is executed.

Appointer (n.) One who appoints, or executes a power of appointment.

Appointive (a.) Subject to appointment; as, an appointive office.

Appointment (n.) 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.

Appointment (n.) The state of being appointed to som/ service or office; an office to which one is appointed; station; position; an, the appointment of treasurer.

Appointment (n.) Stipulation; agreement; the act of fixing by mutual agreement. Hence:: Arrangement for a meeting; engagement; as, they made an appointment to meet at six.

Appointment (n.) Decree; direction; established order or constitution; as, to submit to the divine appointments.

Appointment (n.) The exercise of the power of designating (under a "power of appointment") a person to enjoy an estate or other specific property; also, the instrument by which the designation is made.

Appointment (n.) Equipment, furniture, as for a ship or an army; whatever is appointed for use and management; outfit; (pl.) the accouterments of military officers or soldiers, as belts, sashes, swords.

Appointment (n.) An allowance to a person, esp. to a public officer; a perquisite; -- properly only in the plural.

Appointment (n.) A honorary part or exercise, as an oration, etc., at a public exhibition of a college; as, to have an appointment.

Appointor (n.) The person who selects the appointee. See Appointee, 2.

Apporter (n.) A bringer in; an importer.

Apportioned (imp. & p. p.) of Apportion

Apportioning (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Apportion

Apportion (v. t.) To divide and assign in just proportion; to divide and distribute proportionally; to portion out; to allot; as, to apportion undivided rights; to apportion time among various employments.

Apportionateness (n.) The quality of being apportioned or in proportion.

Apportioner (n.) One who apportions.

Apportionment (n.) The act of apportioning; a dividing into just proportions or shares; a division or shares; a division and assignment, to each proprietor, of his just portion of an undivided right or property.

Appose (v. t.) To place opposite or before; to put or apply (one thing to another).

Appose (v. t.) To place in juxtaposition or proximity.

Appose (v. t.) To put questions to; to examine; to try. [Obs.] See Pose.

Apposed (a.) Placed in apposition; mutually fitting, as the mandibles of a bird's beak.

Apposer (n.) An examiner; one whose business is to put questions. Formerly, in the English Court of Exchequer, an officer who audited the sheriffs' accounts.

Apposite (a.) Very applicable; well adapted; suitable or fit; relevant; pat; -- followed by to; as, this argument is very apposite to the case.

Apposition (n.) The act of adding; application; accretion.

Apposition (n.) The putting of things in juxtaposition, or side by side; also, the condition of being so placed.

Apposition (n.) The state of two nouns or pronouns, put in the same case, without a connecting word between them; as, I admire Cicero, the orator. Here, the second noun explains or characterizes the first.

Appositional (a.) Pertaining to apposition; put in apposition syntactically.

Appositive (a.) Of or relating to apposition; in apposition.

Appositive (n.) A noun in apposition.

Appraisable (a.) Capable of being appraised.

Appraisal (n.) A valuation by an authorized person; an appraisement.

Appraised (imp. & p. p.) of Appraise

Appraising (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Appraise

Appraise (v. t.) To set a value; to estimate the worth of, particularly by persons appointed for the purpose; as, to appraise goods and chattels.

Appraise (v. t.) To estimate; to conjecture.

Appraise (v. t.) To praise; to commend.

Appraisement (n.) The act of setting the value; valuation by an appraiser; estimation of worth.

Appraiser (n.) One who appraises; esp., a person appointed and sworn to estimate and fix the value of goods or estates.

Apprecation (n.) Earnest prayer; devout wish.

Apprecatory (a.) Praying or wishing good.

Appreciable (a.) Capable of being appreciated or estimated; large enough to be estimated; perceptible; as, an appreciable quantity.

Appreciant (a.) Appreciative.

Appreciated (imp. & p. p.) of Appreciate

Appreciating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Appreciate

Appreciate (v. t.) To set a price or value on; to estimate justly; to value.

Appreciate (v. t.) To raise the value of; to increase the market price of; -- opposed to depreciate.

Appreciate (v. t.) To be sensible of; to distinguish.

Appreciate (v. i.) To rise in value. [See note under Rise, v. i.]

Appreciatingly (adv.) In an appreciating manner; with appreciation.

Appreciation (n.) A just valuation or estimate of merit, worth, weight, etc.; recognition of excellence.

Appreciation (n.) Accurate perception; true estimation; as, an appreciation of the difficulties before us; an appreciation of colors.

Appreciation (n.) A rise in value; -- opposed to depreciation.

Appreciative (a.) Having or showing a just or ready appreciation or perception; as, an appreciative audience.

Appreciativeness (n.) The quality of being appreciative; quick recognition of excellence.

Appreciator (n.) One who appreciates.

Appreciatory (a.) Showing appreciation; appreciative; as, appreciatory commendation.

Apprehended (imp. & p. p.) of Apprehend

Apprehending (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Apprehend

Apprehend (v. t.) To take or seize; to take hold of.

Apprehend (v. t.) Hence: To take or seize (a person) by legal process; to arrest; as, to apprehend a criminal.

Apprehend (v. t.) To take hold of with the understanding, that is, to conceive in the mind; to become cognizant of; to understand; to recognize; to consider.

Apprehend (v. t.) To know or learn with certainty.

Apprehend (v. t.) To anticipate; esp., to anticipate with anxiety, dread, or fear; to fear.

Apprehend (v. i.) To think, believe, or be of opinion; to understand; to suppose.

Apprehend (v. i.) To be apprehensive; to fear.

Apprehender (n.) One who apprehends.

Apprehensibiity (n.) The quality of being apprehensible.

Apprehensible (a.) Capable of being apprehended or conceived.

Apprehension (n.) The act of seizing or taking hold of; seizure; as, the hand is an organ of apprehension.

Apprehension (n.) The act of seizing or taking by legal process; arrest; as, the felon, after his apprehension, escaped.

Apprehension (n.) The act of grasping with the intellect; the contemplation of things, without affirming, denying, or passing any judgment; intellection; perception.

Apprehension (n.) Opinion; conception; sentiment; idea.

Apprehension (n.) The faculty by which ideas are conceived; understanding; as, a man of dull apprehension.

Apprehension (n.) Anticipation, mostly of things unfavorable; distrust or fear at the prospect of future evil.

Apprehensive (a.) Capable of apprehending, or quick to do so; apt; discerning.

Apprehensive (a.) Knowing; conscious; cognizant.

Apprehensive (a.) Relating to the faculty of apprehension.

Apprehensive (a.) Anticipative of something unfavorable' fearful of what may be coming; in dread of possible harm; in expectation of evil.

Apprehensive (a.) Sensible; feeling; perceptive.

Apprehensively (adv.) In an apprehensive manner; with apprehension of danger.

Apprehensiveness (n.) The quality or state of being apprehensive.

Apprentice (n.) One who is bound by indentures or by legal agreement to serve a mechanic, or other person, for a certain time, with a view to learn the art, or trade, in which his master is bound to instruct him.

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