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.

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.

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.

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

Without an anal orifice.

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.

Wearing an apron.

The quantity an apron can hold.

Without an apron.

Opportunely or opportune; seasonably or seasonable.

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.

Of or pertaining to the apsides of an orbit.

See 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.

father of the gods and consort of Tiamat.

To fit; to suit; to adapt.

Capable of being adapted.

To make fit.

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.

Apterous.

One of the Aptera.

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

Destitute of wings; apteral; as, apterous insects.

An order of birds, including the genus Apteryx.

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

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.

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.

Suitable; fit.

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

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

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

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

A shelly plate found in the terminal chambers of ammonite shells. Some authors consider them to be jaws; others, opercula.

A genus of fresh-water phyllopod crustaceans. See Phyllopod.

Without fever; -- applied to days when there is an intermission of fever.

Relating to apyrexy.

The absence or intermission of fever.

Incombustible; capable of sustaining a strong heat without alteration of form or properties.

Water; -- a word much used in pharmacy and the old chemistry, in various signification, determined by the word or words annexed.

of or pertaining to aquiculture.

the cultivation of aquatic animals, such as fish or shellfish, or of plants, such as seaweed, in a controlled and sometimes enclosed body of water. The term includes use of either salt or fresh water. It is a form of agriculture, but under water.

an apparatus containing compressed air or other oxygen-gas mixture, permitting a person to breathe under water; -- also called a scuba.

A transparent, pale green variety of beryl, used as a gem. See Beryl.

The introduction of water subcutaneously for the relief of pain.

A design or painting in thin transparent water colors; also, the mode of painting in such colors.

A painter in thin transparent water colors.

One of a sect of Christian in the primitive church who used water instead of wine in the Lord's Supper.

Of or pertaining to an aquarium.

An artificial pond, or a globe or tank (usually with glass sides), in which living specimens of aquatic animals or plants are kept.

The Water-bearer; the eleventh sign in the zodiac, which the sun enters about the 20th of January; -- so called from the rains which prevail at that season in Italy and the East. A constellation south of Pegasus.

An aquatic animal or plant.

Aquatic.

Inhabiting the water.

to etch in aquatint.

A kind of etching in which spaces are bitten by the use of aqua fortis, by which an effect is produced resembling a drawing in water colors or India ink; also, the engraving produced by this method.