Webster's Dictionary 1913

5428

Apprenticeship

Ap‐pren″tice‐ship, n. 1. The service or condition of an apprentice; the state in which a person is gaining instruction in a trade or art, under legal agreement.2. The time an ap...

5429

Appressed

{ Ap‐pressed″, Ap‐prest″ }, a. [p. p. appress, which is not in use. See Adpress.] (Bot.) Pressed close to, or lying against, something for its whole length, as against a stem. G...

5430

Apprise

Ap‐prise″, v. t. [imp. & p. p.Apprised; p. pr. & vb. n.Apprising.] [F. appris, fem. apprise, p. p. apprendre to learn, to teach, to inform. Cf. Apprehend, Apprentice.] To give n...

5431

Apprise (2)

Ap‐prise″, n. Notice; information. Gower.

5432

Apprizal

Ap‐priz″al, n. See Appraisal.

5433

Apprize

Ap‐prize″, v. t. [The same as Appraise, only more accommodated to the English form of the L. pretiare.] To appraise; to value; to appreciate.

5434

Apprizement

Ap‐prize″ment, n. Appraisement.

5435

Apprizer

Ap‐priz″er, n. 1. An appraiser.2. (Scots Law) A creditor for whom an appraisal is made. Sir W. Scott.

5436

Approach

Ap‐proach″, v. i. [imp. & p. p.Approached; p. pr. & vb. n.Approaching.] [OE. approchen, aprochen, OF. approcher, LL. appropriare, fr. L. ad + propiare to draw near, prope near.]...

5437

Approach (2)

Ap‐proach″, v. t. 1. To bring near; to cause to draw near; to advance. Boyle.2. To come near to in place, time, or character; to draw nearer to; as, to approach the city; to app...

5438

Approach (3)

Ap‐proach″, n. [Cf. F. approche. See Approach, v. i.] 1. The act of drawing near; a coming or advancing near. “The approach of summer.” Horsley.A nearer approach to the human ty...

5439

Approach (4)

Ap‐proach″, n.(Golf) A stroke whose object is to land the ball on the putting green. It is made with an iron club.

5440

Approachability

Ap‐proach′a‐bil″i‐ty (�), n. The quality of being approachable; approachableness.

5441

Approachable

Ap‐proach″a‐ble (�), a. Capable of being approached; accessible; as, approachable virtue.

5442

Approachableness

Ap‐proach″a‐ble‐ness, n. The quality or state of being approachable; accessibility.

5443

Approacher

Ap‐proach″er (�), n. One who approaches.

5444

Approaching

Ap‐proach″ing, n.(Hort.) 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 app...

5445

Approachless

Ap‐proach″less, a. Impossible to be approached.

5446

Approachment

Ap‐proach″ment (�), n. [Cf. F. approachement.] Approach. Holland.

5447

Approbate

Ap″pro‐bate (�), a. [L. approbatus, p. p. of approbare to approve.] Approved. Elyot.

5448

Approbate (2)

Ap″pro‐bate (�), v. t. To express approbation of; to approve; to sanction officially.I approbate the one, I reprobate the other.Sir W. Hamilton.☞ This word is obsolete in Englan...

5449

Approbation

Ap′pro‐ba″tion (�), n. [L. approbatio: cf. F. approbation. See Approve to prove.] 1. Proof; attestation. Shak.2. The act of approving; an assenting to the propriety of a thing w...

5450

Approbative

Ap″pro‐ba‐tive (�), a. [Cf. F. approbatif.] Approving, or implying approbation. Milner.

5451

Approbativeness

Ap″pro‐ba‐tive‐ness, n. 1. The quality of being approbative.2. (Phren.) Love of approbation.

5452

Approbator

Ap″pro‐ba′tor (�), n. One who approves.

5453

Approbatory

Ap″pro‐ba′to‐ry (�), a. Containing or expressing approbation; commendatory. Sheldon.

5454

Appromt

Ap‐promt″ (?; 215), v. t. [Pref. ad- + promt.] To quicken; to prompt.To appromt our invention.Bacon.