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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 notice, verbal or written; to inform; -- followed by of; as, we will apprise the general of an intended attack; he apprised the commander of what he had done. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Notice; information. [ Obs. ] Gower. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Appraisal. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ The same as Appraise, only more accommodated to the English form of the L. pretiare. ] To appraise; to value; to appreciate. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Appraisement. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. An appraiser. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Scots Law) A creditor for whom an appraisal is made. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ See Appropriate. ] Capable of being appropriated, set apart, sequestered, or assigned exclusively to a particular use. Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. What is peculiarly one's own; peculiar qualification. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

If you can neglect
Your own appropriaments. Ford. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. appropriatus, p. p. of appropriare; ad + propriare to appropriate, fr. proprius one's own, proper. See Proper. ] Set apart for a particular use or person. Hence: Belonging peculiarly; peculiar; suitable; fit; proper. [ 1913 Webster ]

In its strict and appropriate meaning. Porteus. [ 1913 Webster ]

Appropriate acts of divine worship. Stillingfleet. [ 1913 Webster ]

It is not at all times easy to find words appropriate to express our ideas. Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Appropriated p. pr. & vb. n. Appropriating ] 1. To take to one's self in exclusion of others; to claim or use as by an exclusive right; as, let no man appropriate the use of a common benefit. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To set apart for, or assign to, a particular person or use, in exclusion of all others; -- with to or for; as, a spot of ground is appropriated for a garden; to appropriate money for the increase of the navy. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To make suitable; to suit. [ Archaic ] Paley. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Eng. Eccl. Law) To annex, as a benefice, to a spiritual corporation, as its property. Blackstone. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A property; attribute. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. 1 taken without permission or consent especially by public authority.
Syn. -- confiscate, confiscated, seized, taken over. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adv. In an appropriate or proper manner; fitly; properly. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state or quality of being appropriate; peculiar fitness. Froude. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. appropriatio: cf. F. appropriation. ] 1. 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Anything, especially money, thus set apart. [ 1913 Webster ]

The Commons watched carefully over the appropriation. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Law) (a) The severing or sequestering of a benefice to the perpetual use of a spiritual corporation. Blackstone. (b) The application of payment of money by a debtor to his creditor, to one of several debts which are due from the former to the latter. Chitty. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Appropriating; making, or tending to, appropriation; as, an appropriative act. -- Ap*pro"pri*a*tive*ness, n. [1913 Webster]

n. 1. One who appropriates. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Law) A spiritual corporation possessed of an appropriated benefice; also, an impropriator. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. & i. [ L. apricatus, p. p. of apricare, fr. apricus exposed to the sun, fr. aperire to uncover, open. ] To bask in the sun. Boyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Basking in the sun. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. apricock, abricot, F. abricot, fr. Sp. albaricoque or Pg. albricoque, fr. Ar. albirqūq, al-burqūq. Though the E. and F. form abricot is derived from the Arabic through the Spanish, yet the Arabic word itself was formed from the Gr. praiko`kia, pl. (Diosc. c. 100) fr. L. praecoquus, praecox, early ripe. The older E. form apricock was prob. taken direct from Pg. See Precocious, Cook. ] (Bot.) A fruit allied to the plum, of an orange color, oval shape, and delicious taste; also, the tree (Prunus Armeniaca of Linnæus) which bears this fruit. By cultivation it has been introduced throughout the temperate zone. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. Aprilis. OE. also Averil, F. Avril, fr. L. Aprilis. ] 1. The fourth month of the year. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Fig.: With reference to April being the month in which vegetation begins to put forth, the variableness of its weather, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

The April's her eyes; it is love's spring. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

April fool, one who is sportively imposed upon by others on the first day of April. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖ [ L. a (ab) + prior former. ] 1. (Logic) Characterizing that kind of reasoning which deduces consequences from definitions formed, or principles assumed, or which infers effects from causes previously known; deductive or deductively. The reverse of a posteriori. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Philos.) Applied to knowledge and conceptions assumed, or presupposed, as prior to experience, in order to make experience rational or possible. [ 1913 Webster ]

A priori, that is, from these necessities of the mind or forms of thinking, which, though first revealed to us by experience, must yet have preëxisted in order to make experience possible. Coleridge. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. apriorisme. ] An a priori principle. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality of being innate in the mind, or prior to experience; a priori reasoning. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ AS. arcebiscoprīce. See -ric. ] The jurisdiction or office of an archbishop; the see or province over which archbishop exercises archiepiscopal authority. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A chief priest; also, a kind of vicar, or a rural dean. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Pref. arch- + primate. ] The chief primate. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. the initial price of something (goods or services) without the additional charges that may be added, such as handling or shipping charges, sales tax, optional equipment charges, etc. [ PJC ]

(Ceramics) A mode of printing on glazed ware. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n.; pl. Beaux-esprits [ F., fine wit. ] A fine genius, or man of wit. “A man of letters and a bel esprit.” W. Irving. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Besprinkled p. pr. & vb. n. Besprinkling ] To sprinkle over; to scatter over. [ 1913 Webster ]

The bed besprinkles, and bedews the ground. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who, or that which, besprinkles. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of sprinkling anything; a sprinkling over. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Pref. bi- + prism. ] 1. A prism whose refracting angle is very nearly 180 degrees. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

2. A combination of two short rectangular glass prisms cemented together at their diagonal faces so as to form a cube; -- called also optical cube. It is used in one form of photometer. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ AS. bisceoprīce; bisceop bishop + rīce dominion. See -ric. ] 1. A diocese; the district over which the jurisdiction of a bishop extends. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The office of a spiritual overseer, as of an apostle, bishop, or presbyter. Acts i. 20. [ 1913 Webster ]

. See under Print. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ A corruption of bowsprit. ] (Naut.) See Bowsprit. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Bow + sprit; akin to D. boegspriet; boeg bow of a ship + spriet, E. sprit, also Sw. bogspröt, G. bugspriet. ] (Naut.) A large boom or spar, which projects over the stem of a ship or other vessel, to carry sail forward. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. tall annual herb or subshrub of tropical Asia having velvety leaves and yellow flowers and yielding a strong fiber; naturalized in SE Europe and US.
Syn. -- velvetleaf, velvetweed, Indian mallow, China jute, Abutilon theophrasti. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. Wine produced on the island of Capri, commonly a light, dry, white wine. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

a. [ L. caper goat. ] (Chem.) Of or pertaining to capric acid or its derivatives. [ 1913 Webster ]

Capric acid (also called decanoic acid), C9H19.CO.OH,
Caprylic acid (also called octanoic acid), C7H15.CO2.H, and
Caproic acid (also called hexanoic acid), C5H11.CO2.H, are fatty acids occurring in small quantities in butter, cocoanut oil, etc., united with glycerin; they are colorless oils, or white crystalline solids, of an unpleasant odor like that of goats or sweat. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ It. See Caprice. ] 1. (Mus.) A piece in a free form, with frequent digressions from the theme; a fantasia; -- often called caprice. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A caprice; a freak; a fancy. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖a. [ It. ] (Mus) In a free, fantastic style. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. caprice, It. capriccio, caprice (perh. orig. a fantastical goat leap), fr. L. caper, capra, goat. Cf Capriole, Cab, Caper, v. i. ] 1. An abrupt change in feeling, opinion, or action, proceeding from some whim or fancy; a freak; a notion. “Caprices of appetite.” W. Irving. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Mus.) See Capriccio.

Syn. -- Freak; whim; crotchet; fancy; vagary; humor; whimsey; fickleness. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. F. capricieux, It. capriccioso. ] Governed or characterized by caprice; apt to change suddenly; freakish; whimsical; changeable. “Capricious poet.” Shak. “Capricious humor.” Hugh Miller. [ 1913 Webster ]

A capricious partiality to the Romish practices. Hallam.

Syn. -- Freakish; whimsical; fanciful; fickle; crotchety; fitful; wayward; changeable; unsteady; uncertain; inconstant; arbitrary.

-- Ca*pri"cious*ly, adv. -- Ca*pri"cious*ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. capricornus; caper goat + cornu horn: cf. F. capricorne. ] 1. (Astron.) The tenth sign of zodiac, into which the sun enters at the winter solstice, about December 21. See Tropic. [ 1913 Webster ]

The sun was entered into Capricorn. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Astron.) A southern constellation, represented on ancient monuments by the figure of a goat, or a figure with its fore part like a fish. [ 1913 Webster ]

Capricorn beetle (Zool.), any beetle of the family Carambucidæ; one of the long-horned beetles. The larvæ usually bore into the wood or bark of trees and shrubs and are often destructive. See Girdler, Pruner. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. caper, capra, goat. ] (Zool.) Of or pertaining to the tribe of ruminants of which the goat, or genus Capra, is the type. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. caprificatio, fr. caprificare to ripen figs by caprification, fr. caprificus the wild fig; caper goat + ficus fig. ] The practice of hanging, upon the cultivated fig tree, branches of the wild fig infested with minute hymenopterous insects. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ It is supposed that the little insects insure fertilization by carrying the pollen from the male flowers near the opening of the fig down to the female flowers, and also accelerate ripening the fruit by puncturing it. The practice has existed since ancient times, but its benefit has been disputed. [ 1913 Webster ]