APage 394
- 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.