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  • English Word Apple Definition To grow like an apple; to bear apples.
  • English Word Apple pie Definition A pie made of apples (usually sliced or stewed) with spice and sugar.
  • English Word Apple-faced Definition Having a round, broad face, like an apple.
  • English Word Apple-jack Definition Apple brandy.
  • English Word Apple-john Definition A kind of apple which by keeping becomes much withered; -- called also Johnapple.
  • English Word Apple-squire Definition A pimp; a kept gallant.
  • English Word Appliable Definition Applicable; also, compliant.
  • English Word Appliance Definition The act of applying; application; [Obs.] subservience.
  • English Word Appliance Definition The thing applied or used as a means to an end; an apparatus or device; as, to use various appliances; a mechanical appliance; a machine with its appliances.
  • English Word Applicability Definition The quality of being applicable or fit to be applied.
  • English Word Applicable Definition Capable of being applied; fit or suitable to be applied; having relevance; as, this observation is applicable to the case under consideration.
  • English Word Applicancy Definition The quality or state of being applicable.
  • English Word Applicant Definition One who apples for something; one who makes request; a petitioner.
  • English Word Applicate Definition Applied or put to some use.
  • English Word Applicate Definition To apply.
  • English Word Application Definition The act of applying or laying on, in a literal sense; as, the application of emollients to a diseased limb.
  • English Word Application Definition The thing applied.
  • English Word Application Definition The act of applying as a means; the employment of means to accomplish an end; specific use.
  • English Word Application Definition The act of directing or referring something to a particular case, to discover or illustrate agreement or disagreement, fitness, or correspondence; as, I make the remark, and leave you to make the application; the application of a theory.
  • English Word Application Definition Hence, in specific uses: (a) That part of a sermon or discourse in which the principles before laid down and illustrated are applied to practical uses; the "moral" of a fable. (b) The use of the principles of one science for the purpose of enlarging or perfecting another; as, the application of algebra to geometry.
  • English Word Application Definition The capacity of being practically applied or used; relevancy; as, a rule of general application.
  • English Word Application Definition The act of fixing the mind or closely applying one's self; assiduous effort; close attention; as, to injure the health by application to study.
  • English Word Application Definition The act of making request of soliciting; as, an application for an office; he made application to a court of chancery.
  • English Word Application Definition A request; a document containing a request; as, his application was placed on file.
  • English Word Applicative Definition Capable of being applied or used; applying; applicatory; practical.
  • English Word Applicatorily Definition By way of application.
  • English Word Applicatory Definition Having the property of applying; applicative; practical.
  • English Word Applicatory Definition That which applies.
  • English Word Applied Definition of Apply
  • English Word Appliedly Definition By application.