‖ [ It. See Chapel. ] (Mus.) (a) In church or chapel style; -- said of compositions sung in the old church style, without instrumental accompaniment; as, a mass a capella, i. e., a mass purely vocal. (b) A time indication, equivalent to alla breve. [ 1913 Webster ]

See under Adam. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. pl. [ OF. agrappe, F. agrafe; a + grappe (see Grape) fr. OHG. krāpfo hook. ] Hooks and eyes for armor, etc. Fairholt. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. & i. [ OF. empeirier, F. empire. See Impair. ] To impair; to grow worse. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to a chain of mountains in the United States, commonly called the Allegheny mountains. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The name Appalachian was given to the mountains by the Spaniards under De Soto, who derived it from the neighboring Indians. Am. Cyc. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Appalled p. pr. & vb. n. Appalling. ] [ OF. appalir to grow pale, make pale; a (L. ad) + pâlir to grow pale, to make pale, pâle pale. See Pale, a., and cf. Pall. ] 1. To make pale; to blanch. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

The answer that ye made to me, my dear, . . .
Hath so appalled my countenance. Wyatt. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To weaken; to enfeeble; to reduce; as, an old appalled wight. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

Wine, of its own nature, will not congeal and freeze, only it will lose the strength, and become appalled in extremity of cold. Holland. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To depress or discourage with fear; to impress with fear in such a manner that the mind shrinks, or loses its firmness; to overcome with sudden terror or horror; to dismay; as, the sight appalled the stoutest heart. [ 1913 Webster ]

The house of peers was somewhat appalled at this alarum. Clarendon. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- To dismay; terrify; daunt; frighten; affright; scare; depress. See Dismay. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. 1. To grow faint; to become weak; to become dismayed or discouraged. [ Obs. ] Gower. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To lose flavor or become stale. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Terror; dismay. [ Poet. ] Cowper. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. struck with fear, dread, or consternation.
Syn. -- aghast(predicate), dismayed, shocked. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

a. Such as to appall; as, an appalling accident. -- Ap*pall"ing*ly, adv. [1913 Webster]

n. Depression occasioned by terror; dismay. [ Obs. ] Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. a hardy breed of horse developed in western North America and characteristically having a spotted rump. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ F. apanage, fr. OF. apaner to nourish, support, fr. LL. apanare to furnish with bread, to provision; L. ad + pains bread. ] 1. The portion of land assigned by a sovereign prince for the subsistence of his younger sons. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A dependency; a dependent territory. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. That which belongs to one by custom or right; a natural adjunct or accompaniment. “Wealth . . . the appanage of wit.” Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. apanagiste. ] A prince to whom an appanage has been granted. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Apparel, n. & v. ] Preparation. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Apparatus, also rarely Apparatuses [ L., from apparare, apparatum, to prepare; ad + prepare to make ready. ] 1. Things provided as means to some end. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Hence: A full collection or set of implements, or utensils, for a given duty, experimental or operative; any complex instrument or appliance, mechanical or chemical, for a specific action or operation; machinery; mechanism. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Physiol.) A collection of organs all of which unite in a common function; as, the respiratory apparatus. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. apparel, apareil, OF. apareil, appareil, preparation, provision, furniture, OF. apareiller to match, prepare, F. appareiller; OF. a (L. ad) + pareil like, similar, fr. LL. pariculus, dim. of L. par equal. See Pair. ] 1. External clothing; vesture; garments; dress; garb; external habiliments or array. [ 1913 Webster ]

Fresh in his new apparel, proud and young. Denham. [ 1913 Webster ]

At public devotion his resigned carriage made religion appear in the natural apparel of simplicity. Tatler. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A small ornamental piece of embroidery worn on albs and some other ecclesiastical vestments. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Naut.) The furniture of a ship, as masts, sails, rigging, anchors, guns, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Dress; clothing; vesture; garments; raiment; garb; costume; attire; habiliments. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Appareled, or Apparelled p. pr. & vb. n. Appareling, or Apparelling. ] [ OF. apareiller. ] 1. To make or get (something) ready; to prepare. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To furnish with apparatus; to equip; to fit out. [ 1913 Webster ]

Ships . . . appareled to fight. Hayward. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To dress or clothe; to attire. [ 1913 Webster ]

They which are gorgeously appareled, and live delicately, are in kings' courts. Luke vii. 25. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To dress with external ornaments; to cover with something ornamental; to deck; to embellish; as, trees appareled with flowers, or a garden with verdure. [ 1913 Webster ]

Appareled in celestial light. Wordsworth. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. 1 wearing clothes. the elegantly appareled gentleman
Syn. -- attired, clad, dressed, garbed, garmented, habilimented, robed. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ OF. aparence. ] Appearance. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. Appearance. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Apparentness; state of being apparent. Coleridge. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The position of being heir apparent. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ F. apparent, L. apparens, -entis, p. pr. of apparere. See Appear. ] 1. Capable of being seen, or easily seen; open to view; visible to the eye; within sight or view. [ 1913 Webster ]

The moon . . . apparent queen. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Clear or manifest to the understanding; plain; evident; obvious; known; palpable; indubitable. [ 1913 Webster ]

It is apparent foul play. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Appearing to the eye or mind (distinguished from, but not necessarily opposed to, true or real); seeming; as the apparent motion or diameter of the sun. [ 1913 Webster ]

To live on terms of civility, and even of apparent friendship. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

What Berkeley calls visible magnitude was by astronomers called apparent magnitude. Reid. [ 1913 Webster ]

Apparent horizon, the circle which in a level plain bounds our view, and is formed by the apparent meeting of the earth and heavens, as distinguished from the rational horizon. --
Apparent time. See Time. --
Heir apparent (Law), one whose to an estate is indefeasible if he survives the ancestor; -- in distinction from presumptive heir. See Presumptive. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Visible; distinct; plain; obvious; clear; certain; evident; manifest; indubitable; notorious. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. An heir apparent. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

I'll draw it [ the sword ] as apparent to the crown. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. 1. Visibly. [ Obs. ] Hobbes. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Plainly; clearly; manifestly; evidently. [ 1913 Webster ]

If he should scorn me so apparently. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Seemingly; in appearance; as, a man may be apparently friendly, yet malicious in heart. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Plainness to the eye or the mind; visibleness; obviousness. [ R. ] Sherwood. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. apparition, L. apparitio, fr. apparere. See Appear. ] 1. The act of becoming visible; appearance; visibility. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

The sudden apparition of the Spaniards. Prescott. [ 1913 Webster ]

The apparition of Lawyer Clippurse occasioned much speculation in that portion of the world. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The thing appearing; a visible object; a form. [ 1913 Webster ]

Which apparition, it seems, was you. Tatler. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. An unexpected, wonderful, or preternatural appearance; a ghost; a specter; a phantom. “The heavenly bands . . . a glorious apparition.” Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

I think it is the weakness of mine eyes
That shapes this monstrous apparition. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Astron.) The first appearance of a star or other luminary after having been invisible or obscured; -- opposed to occultation. [ 1913 Webster ]

Circle of perpetual apparition. See under Circle. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Pertaining to an apparition or to apparitions; spectral. “An apparitional soul.” Tylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L., fr. apparere. See Appear. ] 1. Formerly, an officer who attended magistrates and judges to execute their orders. [ 1913 Webster ]

Before any of his apparitors could execute the sentence, he was himself summoned away by a sterner apparitor to the other world. De Quincey. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Law) A messenger or officer who serves the process of an ecclesiastical court. Bouvier. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ F. appaumé; &unr_; (l. ad) + paume the palm, fr. L. palma. ] (Her.) A hand open and extended so as to show the palm. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ OF. appayer, apaier, LL. appacare, appagare, fr. L. ad + pacare to pacify, pax, pacis, peace. See Pay, Appease. ] To pay; to satisfy or appease. [ Obs. ] Sir P. Sidney. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ OE. apechen, for empechen, OF. empeechier, F. empêcher, to hinder. See Impeach. ] To impeach; to accuse; to asperse; to inform against; to reproach. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

And oft of error did himself appeach. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. An accuser. [ Obs. ] Raleigh. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Accusation. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Appealed p. pr. & vb. n. Appealing. ] [ OE. appelen, apelen, to appeal, accuse, OF. appeler, fr. L. appellare to approach, address, invoke, summon, call, name; akin to appellere to drive to; ad + pellere to drive. See Pulse, and cf. Peal. ] 1. (Law) (a) To make application for the removal of (a cause) from an inferior to a superior judge or court for a rehearing or review on account of alleged injustice or illegality in the trial below. We say, the cause was appealed from an inferior court. (b) To charge with a crime; to accuse; to institute a private criminal prosecution against for some heinous crime; as, to appeal a person of felony. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To summon; to challenge. [ Archaic ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Man to man will I appeal the Norman to the lists. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To invoke. [ Obs. ] Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. 1. (Law) To apply for the removal of a cause from an inferior to a superior judge or court for the purpose of reëxamination of for decision. Tomlins. [ 1913 Webster ]

I appeal unto Cæsar. Acts xxv. 11. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To call upon another to decide a question controverted, to corroborate a statement, to vindicate one's rights, etc.; as, I appeal to all mankind for the truth of what is alleged. Hence: To call on one for aid; to make earnest request. [ 1913 Webster ]

I appeal to the Scriptures in the original. Horsley. [ 1913 Webster ]

They appealed to the sword. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. appel, apel, OF. apel, F. appel, fr. appeler. See Appeal, v. t. ] 1. (Law) (a) An application for the removal of a cause or suit from an inferior to a superior judge or court for reëxamination or review. (b) The mode of proceeding by which such removal is effected. (c) The right of appeal. (d) An accusation; a process which formerly might be instituted by one private person against another for some heinous crime demanding punishment for the particular injury suffered, rather than for the offense against the public. (e) An accusation of a felon at common law by one of his accomplices, which accomplice was then called an approver. See Approvement. Tomlins. Bouvier. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A summons to answer to a charge. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A call upon a person or an authority for proof or decision, in one's favor; reference to another as witness; a call for help or a favor; entreaty. [ 1913 Webster ]

A kind of appeal to the Deity, the author of wonders. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Resort to physical means; recourse. [ 1913 Webster ]

Every milder method is to be tried, before a nation makes an appeal to arms. Kent. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Capable of being appealed against; that may be removed to a higher tribunal for decision; as, the cause is appealable. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. That may be accused or called to answer by appeal; as, a criminal is appealable for manslaughter. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. An appellant. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who makes an appeal. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. That appeals; imploring. -- Ap*peal"ing*ly, adv. -- Ap*peal"ing*ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Appeared p. pr. & vb. n. Appearing. ] [ OE. apperen, aperen, OF. aparoir, F. apparoir, fr. L. appar&unr_;re to appear + par&unr_;reto come forth, to be visible; prob. from the same root as par&unr_;re to produce. Cf. Apparent, Parent, Peer, v. i. ] 1. To come or be in sight; to be in view; to become visible. [ 1913 Webster ]

And God . . . said, Let . . . the dry land appear. Gen. i. 9. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To come before the public; as, a great writer appeared at that time. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To stand in presence of some authority, tribunal, or superior person, to answer a charge, plead a cause, or the like; to present one's self as a party or advocate before a court, or as a person to be tried. [ 1913 Webster ]

We must all appear before the judgment seat. 2 Cor. v. 10. [ 1913 Webster ]

One ruffian escaped because no prosecutor dared to appear. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To become visible to the apprehension of the mind; to be known as a subject of observation or comprehension, or as a thing proved; to be obvious or manifest. [ 1913 Webster ]

It doth not yet appear what we shall be. 1 John iii. 2. [ 1913 Webster ]

Of their vain contest appeared no end. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. To seem; to have a certain semblance; to look. [ 1913 Webster ]

They disfigure their faces, that they may appear unto men to fast. Matt. vi. 16. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- To seem; look. See Seem. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Appearance. [ Obs. ] J. Fletcher. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. apparence, L. apparentia, fr. apparere. See Appear. ] 1. The act of appearing or coming into sight; the act of becoming visible to the eye; as, his sudden appearance surprised me. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A thing seed; a phenomenon; a phase; an apparition; as, an appearance in the sky. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Personal presence; exhibition of the person; look; aspect; mien. [ 1913 Webster ]

And now am come to see . . .
It thy appearance answer loud report. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Semblance, or apparent likeness; external show. pl. Outward signs, or circumstances, fitted to make a particular impression or to determine the judgment as to the character of a person or a thing, an act or a state; as, appearances are against him. [ 1913 Webster ]

There was upon the tabernacle, as it were, the appearance of fire. Num. ix. 15. [ 1913 Webster ]

For man looketh on the outward appearance. 1 Sam. xvi. 7. [ 1913 Webster ]

Judge not according to the appearance. John. vii. 24. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. The act of appearing in a particular place, or in society, a company, or any proceedings; a coming before the public in a particular character; as, a person makes his appearance as an historian, an artist, or an orator. [ 1913 Webster ]

Will he now retire,
After appearance, and again prolong
Our expectation? Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. Probability; likelihood. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

There is that which hath no appearance. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

7. (Law) The coming into court of either of the parties; the being present in court; the coming into court of a party summoned in an action, either by himself or by his attorney, expressed by a formal entry by the proper officer to that effect; the act or proceeding by which a party proceeded against places himself before the court, and submits to its jurisdiction. Burrill. Bouvier. Daniell. [ 1913 Webster ]

To put in an appearance, to be present; to appear in person. --
To save appearances, to preserve a fair outward show. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Coming; arrival; presence; semblance; pretense; air; look; manner; mien; figure; aspect. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who appears. Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. Apparently. [ Obs. ] Bp. Hall. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Capable of being appeased or pacified; placable. -- Ap*peas"a*ble*ness, n. [1913 Webster]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Appealed p. pr. & vb. n. Appeasing. ] [ OE. apesen, apaisen, OF. apaisier, apaissier, F. apaiser, fr. a (L. ad) + OF. pais peace, F. paix, fr. L. pax, pacis. See Peace. ] To make quiet; to calm; to reduce to a state of peace; to still; to pacify; to dispel (anger or hatred); as, to appease the tumult of the ocean, or of the passions; to appease hunger or thirst. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- To pacify; quiet; conciliate; propitiate; assuage; compose; calm; allay; hush; soothe; tranquilize. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of appeasing, or the state of being appeased; pacification. Hayward. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who appeases; a pacifier. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Tending to appease. [ 1913 Webster ]