English English Dictionary
English English Dictionary
The online English-English dictionary from The Project Gutenberg
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Appui
(n.)
A support or supporter; a stay; a prop.
Appulse
(n.)
A driving or running towards; approach; impulse; also, the
act of striking against.
Appulse
(n.)
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.
Appulsion
(n.)
A driving or striking against; an appulse.
Appulsive
(a.)
Striking against; impinging; as, the appulsive influence
of the planets.
Appulsively
(adv.)
By appulsion.
Appurtenance
(n.)
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.
Appurtenant
(a.)
Annexed or pertaining to some more important thing;
accessory; incident; as, a right of way appurtenant to land or
buildings.
Appurtenant
(n.)
Something which belongs or appertains to another
thing; an appurtenance.
Apricate
(v. t. & i.)
To bask in the sun.
Aprication
(n.)
Basking in the sun.
Apricot
(n.)
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.
April
(n.)
The fourth month of the year.
April
(n.)
Fig.: With reference to April being the month in which
vegetation begins to put forth, the variableness of its weather, etc.
Apriorism
(n.)
An a priori principle.
Apriority
(n.)
The quality of being innate in the mind, or prior to
experience; a priori reasoning.
Aprocta
(n. pl.)
A group of Turbellaria in which there is no anal
aperture.
Aproctous
(a.)
Without an anal office.
Apron
(n.)
A flooring of plank before a dam to cause the water to make
a gradual descent.
Apron
(n.)
A piece of carved timber, just above the foremost end of the
keel.