To make hungry; to whet the appetite of.

Something which creates or whets an appetite.

So as to excite appetite.

Of or pertaining to Appius.

To express approbation loudly or significantly.

worthy of being applauded.

One who applauds.

Worthy of applause; praiseworthy.

The act of applauding; approbation and praise publicly expressed by clapping the hands, stamping or tapping with the feet, acclamation, huzzas, or other means; marked commendation.

Expressing applause; approbative.

To grow like an apple; to bear apples.

Having a round, broad face, like an apple.

Apple brandy; a brandy distilled from cider.

A kind of apple which by keeping becomes much withered; -- called also Johnapple.

A pimp; a kept gallant.

the planning that is disrupted when someone "upsets the applecart".

a mint (Mentha rotundifolia or Mentha suaveolens) with apple-scented stems of South and West Europe; naturalized in U.S.

puree of stewed apples usually sweetened and spiced.

wood of any of various apple trees of the genus Malus.

Applicable; also, compliant.

The act of applying; application.

The quality of being applicable or fit to be applied.

Capable of being applied; fit or suitable to be applied; having relevance; as, this observation is applicable to the case under consideration.

The quality or state of being applicable.

One who apples for something; one who makes request; a petitioner.

To apply.

The act of applying or laying on, in a literal sense; as, the application of emollients to a diseased limb.

Capable of being applied or used; applying; applicatory; practical.

By way of application.

Having the property of applying; applicative; practical. That which applies.

By application.

He who, or that which, applies.

Application.

Ornamented with a pattern (which has been cut out of another color or stuff) applied or transferred to a foundation; as, appliqu/ lace; appliqu/ work.

To divide into plots or parts; to apportion.

Apportionment.

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

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.

To ordain; to determine; to arrange.

Capable of being appointed or constituted.

having acquired an office or responsibility through appointment; -- said of officials, and contrasting with elected.

A person appointed.

One who appoints, or executes a power of appointment.

Subject to appointment; as, an appointive office.

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.

A bringer in; an importer.

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.

The quality of being apportioned or in proportion.

One who apportions.

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.

Capable of being apposed, or applied one to another, as the thumb to the fingers of the hand; able to be brought into direct spatial opposition.

To put questions to; to examine; to try. [Obs.] See Pose.

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

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

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

The act of adding; application; accretion.

Pertaining to apposition; put in apposition syntactically.

Of or relating to apposition; in apposition. A noun in apposition.

Capable of being appraised.

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

The act of setting the value; valuation by an appraiser; estimation of worth.

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

Earnest prayer; devout wish.

Praying or wishing good.

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

Appreciative.

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

In an appreciating manner; with appreciation.

A just valuation or estimate of merit, worth, weight, etc.; recognition of excellence.

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

The quality of being appreciative; quick recognition of excellence.

One who appreciates.

Showing appreciation; appreciative; as, appreciatory commendation.

To think, believe, or be of opinion; to understand; to suppose.

One who apprehends.

The quality of being apprehensible.

Capable of being apprehended or conceived.

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

Capable of apprehending, or quick to do so; apt; discerning.

In an apprehensive manner; with apprehension of danger.

The quality or state of being apprehensive.

To bind to, or put under the care of, a master, for the purpose of instruction in a trade or business.

Apprenticeship.

Apprenticeship.

The service or condition of an apprentice; the state in which a person is gaining instruction in a trade or art, under legal agreement.

Pressed close to, or lying against, something for its whole length, as against a stem.

informing by words.

Notice; information.

See Appraisal.

To appraise; to value; to appreciate.

Appraisement.

An appraiser.

The act of drawing near; a coming or advancing near.

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.

The act of ingrafting a sprig or shoot of one tree into another, without cutting it from the parent stock; -- called, also, inarching and grafting by approach.

Impossible to be approached.

Approach.

To express approbation of; to approve; to sanction officially.

Proof; attestation.

Approving, or implying approbation.

The quality of being approbative.

One who approves.

Containing or expressing approbation; commendatory.

To quicken; to prompt.

Trial; proof.

To approach.

A drawing nigh; approach.

Nearness; propinquity.

To appropriate.

Capable of being appropriated, set apart, sequestered, or assigned exclusively to a particular use.

What is peculiarly one's own; peculiar qualification.

A property; attribute.

taken without permission or consent especially by public authority.

In an appropriate or proper manner; fitly; properly.

The state or quality of being appropriate; peculiar fitness.

The act of setting apart or assigning to a particular use or person, or of taking to one's self, in exclusion of all others; application to a special use or purpose, as of a piece of ground for a park, or of money to carry out some object.