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a. Appealable. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Capability of appeal. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. appellans, p. pr. of appellare; cf. F. appelant. See Appeal. ] Relating to an appeal; appellate. “An appellant jurisdiction.” Hallam. [ 1913 Webster ]

Party appellant (Law), the party who appeals; appellant; -- opposed to respondent, or appellee. Tomlins. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. (Law) (a) One who accuses another of felony or treason. [ Obs. ] (b) One who appeals, or asks for a rehearing or review of a cause by a higher tribunal. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A challenger. [ Obs. ] Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Eccl. Hist.) One who appealed to a general council against the bull Unigenitus. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. One who appeals or entreats. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. appelatus, p. p. of appellare. ] Pertaining to, or taking cognizance of, appeals. “Appellate jurisdiction.” Blackstone. “Appellate judges.” Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

Appelate court, a court having cognizance of appeals. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A person or prosecuted for a crime. [ Obs. ] See Appellee. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. appellatio, fr. appellare: cf. F. appellation. See Appeal. ] 1. The act of appealing; appeal. [ Obs. ] Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The act of calling by a name. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The word by which a particular person or thing is called and known; name; title; designation. [ 1913 Webster ]

They must institute some persons under the appellation of magistrates. Hume. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- See Name. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. appellativus, fr. appellare: cf. F. appelatif. See Appeal. ] 1. Pertaining to a common name; serving as a distinctive denomination; denominative; naming. Cudworth. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Gram.) Common, as opposed to proper; denominative of a class. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. appelativum, sc. nomen. ] 1. A common name, in distinction from a proper name. A common name, or appellative, stands for a whole class, genus, or species of beings, or for universal ideas. Thus, tree is the name of all plants of a particular class; plant and vegetable are names of things that grow out of the earth. A proper name, on the other hand, stands for a single thing; as, Rome, Washington, Lake Erie. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. An appellation or title; a descriptive name. [ 1913 Webster ]

God chosen it for one of his appellatives to be the Defender of them. Jer. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. After the manner of nouns appellative; in a manner to express whole classes or species; as, Hercules is sometimes used appellatively, that is, as a common name, to signify a strong man. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality of being appellative. Fuller. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. appellatorius, fr. appellare. ] Containing an appeal. [ 1913 Webster ]

An appellatory libel ought to contain the name of the party appellant. Ayliffe. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L., a little goat, dim. of caper a goat. ] (Asrton.) A brilliant star in the constellation Auriga. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Chaplain. ] The curate of a chapel; a chaplain. [ Obs. ] Fuller. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. See A cappella. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Bot.) Belonging to, forming, or containing carpels. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. (Botany) bearing or consisting of carpels. Opposite of acarpelous.
Syn. -- pistillate. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n.; pl. Chapellanies [ Cf. E. chapellenie, LL. capellania. See Chaplain. ] A chapel within the jurisdiction of a church; a subordinate ecclesiastical foundation. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Capable of being compelled or constrained. Blackstone. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. By compulsion. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. compellatio, fr. compellare to accost, fr. compellere. See Compel. ] Style of address or salutation; an appellation. “Metaphorical compellations.” Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

He useth this endearing compellation, “My little children.” Bp. Beveridge. [ 1913 Webster ]

The peculiar compellation of the kings in France is by “Sire, ” which is nothing else but father. Sir W. Temple. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Gram.) The name by which a person is addressed; an appellative. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Serving to compel; compulsory. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

pos>n. [ See Cupel. ] The act or process of refining gold or silver, etc., in a cupel. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The process consist in exposing the cupel containing the metal to be assayed or refined to a hot blast, by which the lead, copper, tin, etc., are oxidized, dissolved, and carried down into the porous cupel, leaving the unoxidizable precious metal. If lead is not already present in the alloy it must be added before cupellation. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Capable of being expelled or driven out. “Expellable by heat.” Kirwan. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality of being inappellable; finality. [ 1913 Webster ]

The inappellability of the councils. Coleridge. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Inappealable; final.

a. [ L. interpellans, p. pr. See Interpel. ] Interpelling; interrupting. -- n. One who, or that which, interpels. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ See Interpel. ] To question imperatively, as a minister, or other executive officer, in explanation of his conduct; -- generally on the part of a legislative body. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. interpellatio: cf. F. interpellation. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. The act of interpelling or interrupting; interruption. “Continual interpellations.” Bp. Hall. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The act of interposing or interceding; intercession. [ 1913 Webster ]

Accepted by his interpellation and intercession. Jer. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. An act of interpellating, or of demanding of an officer an explanation of his action; imperative or peremptory questioning; a point raised in a debate. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. A official summons or citation. Ayliffe. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Mono- + carpellary. ] (Bot.) Consisting of a single carpel, as the fruit of the pea, cherry, and almond. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. Gael. Peileag. ] (Zool.) A porpoise. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See 2d Pell. ] A customs duty on skins of leather. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ It. pelle skin + agro rough. ] (Med.) An affection of the skin, characterized by redness, especially in exposed areas, scaling and shedding of the skin, and accompanied with severe gastrointestinal disturbance and nervous symptoms. It is due to a deficiency of niacin (vitamin B3; nicotinic acid) and protein in the diet, and may be caused by malnutrition, or, in some cases, by a heavy dependence on maize for food. It was at one time (ca. 1890) endemic in Northern Italy, and was called Alpine scurvy. It may also be caused by alcoholism or diease causing an impairment of nutrition. It is also called St. Ignatius's itch, maidism, mal de la rosa, mal rosso, and psychoneurosis maidica. A variety of pellagra seen in children is called infantile pellagra or kwashiorkor. [ Stedman ] [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

n. One who is afficted with pellagra. Chambers's Encyc. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ It. pellagroso: cf. F. pellagreux. ] (Med.) Pertaining to, or affected with, or attendant on, pellagra; as, pellagrous insanity. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

a. (Bot.) Composed of several or numerous carpels; -- said of such fruits as the orange. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From L. rupes a rock. ] Rocky. [ Obs. ] “This rupellary nidary.” Evelyn. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Capable of being spelt. Carlyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Bot.) Having stipels. [ 1913 Webster ]