English English Dictionary

A support or supporter; a stay; a prop.

A driving or running towards; approach; impulse; also, the act of striking against.

The near approach of one heavenly body to another, or to the meridian; a coming into conjunction; as, the appulse of the moon to a star, or of a star to the meridian.

A driving or striking against; an appulse.

Striking against; impinging; as, the appulsive influence of the planets.

By appulsion.

That which belongs to something else; an adjunct; an appendage; an accessory; something annexed to another thing more worthy; in common parlance and legal acceptation, something belonging to another thing as principal, and which passes as incident to it, as a right of way, or other easement to land; a right of common to pasture, an outhouse, barn, garden, or orchard, to a house or messuage. In a strict legal sense, land can never pass as an appurtenance to land.

Annexed or pertaining to some more important thing; accessory; incident; as, a right of way appurtenant to land or buildings.

Something which belongs or appertains to another thing; an appurtenance.

To bask in the sun.

Basking in the sun.

A fruit allied to the plum, of an orange color, oval shape, and delicious taste; also, the tree (Prunus Armeniaca of Linnaeus) which bears this fruit. By cultivation it has been introduced throughout the temperate zone.

The fourth month of the year.

Fig.: With reference to April being the month in which vegetation begins to put forth, the variableness of its weather, etc.

An a priori principle.

The quality of being innate in the mind, or prior to experience; a priori reasoning.

A group of Turbellaria in which there is no anal aperture.

Without an anal office.

A flooring of plank before a dam to cause the water to make a gradual descent.

A piece of carved timber, just above the foremost end of the keel.