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Appraisement

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

Appraiser

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

Appreciable

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

Appreciate

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

Appreciation

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

Appreciative

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

Appreciativeness

The quality of being appreciative; quick recognition of excellence.

Appreciatory

Showing appreciation; appreciative; as, appreciatory commendation.

Apprehend

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

Apprehension

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

Apprehensive

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

Apprentice

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

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.

Apprest Appressed

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

Apprize

To appraise; to value; to appreciate.

Approach

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

Approachable

Capable of being approached; accessible; as, approachable virtue.

Approaching

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.

Approbate

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

Approbatory

Containing or expressing approbation; commendatory.

Appropriable

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

Appropriament

What is peculiarly one's own; peculiar qualification.

appropriated

taken without permission or consent especially by public authority.

Appropriately

In an appropriate or proper manner; fitly; properly.

Appropriateness

The state or quality of being appropriate; peculiar fitness.

Appropriation

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.

Appropriative

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

Approve

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.

Approvedly

So as to secure approbation; in an approved manner.

Approvement

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

Approving

Expressing approbation; commending; as, an approving smile.

Approximation

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

Appui

A support or supporter; a stay; a prop.

Appulse

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

Appulsion

A driving or striking against; an appulse.

Appulsive

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

Appurtenance

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.

appurtenances

miscellaneous articles needed for a particular operation or sport etc.

Appurtenant

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

apractic

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

apraxia

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

apraxic

having uncoordinated muscular movements, symptomatic of a CNS disorder.

Apricot

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.

April

The fourth month of the year.

Apriority

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

Aprocta

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

Apron

An article of dress, of cloth, leather, or other stuff, worn on the fore part of the body, to keep the clothes clean, to defend them from injury, or as a covering. It is commonly tied at the waist by strings.

Apropos

Opportunely or opportune; seasonably or seasonable.

Apse

A projecting part of a building, esp. of a church, having in the plan a polygonal or semicircular termination, and, most often, projecting from the east end. In early churches the Eastern apse was occupied by seats for the bishop and clergy. The bishop's seat or throne, in ancient churches.

Apsidal

Of or pertaining to the apsides of an orbit.

Apsis

One of the two points of an orbit, as of a planet or satellite, which are at the greatest and least distance from the central body, corresponding to the aphelion and perihelion of a planet, or to the apogee and perigee of the moon. The more distant is called the higher apsis; the other, the lower apsis; and the line joining them, the line of apsides.

Apsu

father of the gods and consort of Tiamat.

Apt

To fit; to suit; to adapt.

Aptera

Insects without wings, constituting the seventh Linn/n order of insects, an artificial group, which included Crustacea, spiders, centipeds, and even worms. These animals are now placed in several distinct classes and orders.

Apteria

Naked spaces between the feathered areas of birds. See Pteryli/.

Apterous

Destitute of wings; apteral; as, apterous insects.

Apteryges

An order of birds, including the genus Apteryx.

Apterygiformes

a ratite bird order: flightless ground birds having vestigial wings and long bills and small eyes: kiwis.

Apteryx

A genus of New Zealand birds about the size of a hen, with only short rudiments of wings, armed with a claw and without a tail; the kiwi. It is allied to the gigantic extinct moas of the same country. Five species are known.

Aptitude

A natural or acquired disposition or capacity for a particular purpose, or tendency to a particular action or effect; as, oil has an aptitude to burn.

Aptly

In an apt or suitable manner; fitly; properly; pertinently; appropriately; readily.

Aptness

Fitness; suitableness; appropriateness; as, the aptness of things to their end.

Aptote

A noun which has no distinction of cases; an indeclinable noun.

Aptotic

Pertaining to, or characterized by, aptotes; uninflected; as, aptotic languages.

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