Part 567

<blockquote>Sacred vows . . . <b>applied</b> to grisly Pluto. <i>Pope.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>6.</b> <def>To betake; to address; to refer; -- used reflexively.</def>

<blockquote>I <b>applied</b> myself to him for help. <i>Johnson.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>7.</b> <def>To busy; to keep at work; to ply.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<blockquote>She was skillful in <b>applying</b> his "humors." <i>Sir P. Sidney.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>8.</b> <def>To visit.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<blockquote>And he <b>applied</b> each place so fast. <i>Chapman.</i></blockquote>

<cs><col>Applied chemistry</col>. <cd>See under <er>Chemistry</er>.</cd> -- <col>Applied mathematics</col>. <cd>See under <er>Mathematics</er>.</cd></cs>

<h1>Apply</h1> <Xpage=73>

<hw>Ap*ply"</hw>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>To suit; to agree; to have some connection, agreement, or analogy; <as>as, this argument <ex>applies</ex> well to the case</as>.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To make request; to have recourse with a view to gain something; to make application. (<i>to</i>); to solicit; <as>as, to <ex>apply</ex> to a friend for information</as>.</def>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>To ply; to move.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark>

<blockquote>I heard the sound of an oar <b>applying</b> swiftly through the water. <i>T. Moore.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>To apply or address one's self; to give application; to attend closely (<i>to</i>).</def>

<h1>Appoggiatura</h1> <Xpage=73>

<hw>Ap*pog`gia*tu"ra</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[It., fr. <ets>appogiarre</ets> to lean, to rest; <ets>ap-</ets> (L. <ets>ad</ets>) + <ets>poggiare</ets> to mount, ascend, <ets>poggio</ets> hill, fr. L. <ets>podium</ets> an elevated place.]</ety> <fld>(Mus.)</fld> <def>A passing tone preceding an essential tone, and borrowing the time it occupies from that; a short auxiliary or grace note one degree above or below the principal note unless it be of the same harmony; -- generally indicated by a note of smaller size, as in the illustration above. It forms no essential part of the harmony.</def>

<h1>Appoint</h1> <Xpage=73>

<hw>Ap*point"</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Appointed</er>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Appointing</er>.]</wordforms> <ety>[OE. <ets>appointen</ets>, <ets>apointen</ets>, OF. <ets>apointier</ets> to prepare, arrange, lean, place, F. <ets>appointer</ets> to give a salary, refer a cause, fr. LL. <ets>appunctare</ets> to bring back to the point, restore, to fix the point in a controversy, or the points in an agreement; L. <ets>ad + punctum</ets> a point. See <er>Point</er>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>To fix with power or firmness; to establish; to mark out.</def>

<blockquote>When he <b>appointed</b> the foundations of the earth. <i>Prov. viii. 29.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To fix by a decree, order, command, resolve, decision, or mutual agreement; to constitute; to ordain; to prescribe; to fix the time and place of.</def>

<blockquote>Thy servants are ready to do whatsoever my lord the king shall <b>appoint</b>. <i>2 Sam. xv. 15.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>He hath <b>appointed</b> a day, in the which he will judge the world in righteousness. <i>Acts xvii. 31.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>Say that the emperor request a parley . . . and <b>appoint</b> the meeting. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>To assign, designate, or set apart by authority.</def>

<blockquote>Aaron and his shall go in, and <b>appoint</b> them every one to his service. <i>Num. iv. 19.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>These were cities <b>appointed</b> for all the children of Israel, and for the stranger that sojourneth among them. <i>Josh. xx. 9.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>To furnish in all points; to provide with everything necessary by way of equipment; to equip; to fit out.</def>

<blockquote>The English, being well <b>appointed</b>, did so entertain them that their ships departed terribly torn. <i>Hayward.</i></blockquote>