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.

A valuation by an authorized person; an appraisement.

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.

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.

Appropriating; making, or tending to, appropriation; as, an appropriative act.

One who appropriates.

Worthy of being approved; meritorious.

Approbation; sanction.

Approval.

To make profit of; to convert to one's own profit; -- said esp. of waste or common land appropriated by the lord of the manor.

So as to secure approbation; in an approved manner.

Improvement of common lands, by inclosing and converting them to the uses of husbandry for the advantage of the lord of the manor.

A bailiff or steward; an agent.

Expressing approbation; commending; as, an approving smile.

To draw; to approach.

With approximation; so as to approximate; nearly.

The act of approximating; a drawing, advancing or being near; approach; also, the result of approximating.

Approaching; approximate.

One who, or that which, approximates.

A support or supporter; a stay; a prop.

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

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.

miscellaneous articles needed for a particular operation or sport etc.

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

having uncoordinated muscular movements, symptomatic of a CNS disorder; suffering from apraxia.

inability to make purposeful movements, but without paralysis or loss of sensory function.

having uncoordinated muscular movements, symptomatic of a CNS disorder.

the time after skiing.

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 Linn/us) which bears this fruit. By cultivation it has been introduced throughout the temperate zone.

The fourth month of the year.

An a priori principle.

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