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<hw>Ap*proach"</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Cf. F. <ets>approche</ets>. See <er>Approach</er>, <tt>v. i.</tt>]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>The act of drawing near; a coming or advancing near.</def> "The <i>approach</i> of summer."

<i>Horsley.</i>

<blockquote>A nearer <b>approach</b> to the human type. <i>Owen.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>A access, or opportunity of drawing near.</def>

<blockquote>The <b>approach</b> to kings and principal persons. <i>Bacon.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <pluf>pl.</pluf> <def>Movements to gain favor; advances.</def>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>A way, passage, or avenue by which a place or buildings can be approached; an access.</def>

<i>Macaulay.</i>

<p><b>5.</b> <plu>pl.</plu> <fld>(Fort.)</fld> <def>The advanced works, trenches, or covered roads made by besiegers in their advances toward a fortress or military post.</def>

<p><b>6.</b> <fld>(Hort.)</fld> <def>See <er>Approaching</er>.</def>

<h1>Approachability</h1> <Xpage=74>

<hw>Ap*proach`a*bil"i*ty</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>The quality of being approachable; approachableness.</def>

<h1>Approachable</h1> <Xpage=74>

<hw>Ap*proach"a*ble</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Capable of being approached; accessible; <as>as, <ex>approachable</ex> virtue</as>.</def>

<h1>Approachableness</h1> <Xpage=74>

<hw>Ap*proach"a*ble*ness</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>The quality or state of being approachable; accessibility.</def>

<h1>Approacher</h1> <Xpage=74>

<hw>Ap*proach"er</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>One who approaches.</def>

<h1>Approaching</h1> <Xpage=74>

<hw>Ap*proach"ing</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <fld>(Hort.)</fld> <def>The act of ingrafting a sprig or shoot of one tree into another, without cutting it from the parent stock; -- called, also, <i>inarching</i> and <i>grafting by approach</i>.</def>

<h1>Approachless</h1> <Xpage=74>

<hw>Ap*proach"less</hw>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Impossible to be approached.</def>

<h1>Approachment</h1> <Xpage=74>

<hw>Ap*proach"ment</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Cf. F. <ets>approachement</ets>.]</ety> <def>Approach.</def> <mark>[Archaic]</mark>

<i>Holland.</i>

<h1>Approbate</h1> <Xpage=74>

<hw>Ap"pro*bate</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>approbatus</ets>, p. p. of <ets>approbare</ets> to approve.]</ety> <def>Approved.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Elyot.</i>