Part 583

<i>Tomlins. Bouvier. Burrill.</i>

<blockquote>Globes . . . provided as <b>appurtenances</b> to astronomy. <i>Bacon.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>The structure of the eye, and of its <b>appurtenances</b>. <i>Reid.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Appurtenant</h1> <Xpage=75>

<hw>Ap*pur"te*nant</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[F. <ets>appartenant</ets>, p. pr. of <ets>appartenir</ets>. See <er>Appurtenance</er>.]</ety> <def>Annexed or pertaining to some more important thing; accessory; incident; <as>as, a right of way <ex>appurtenant</ex> to land or buildings</as>.</def>

<i>Blackstone.</i>

<cs><col>Common appurtenatn</col>. <cd><fld>(Law)</fld> See under <er>Common, <tt>n.</tt></er></cd></cs>

<h1>Appurtenant</h1> <Xpage=75>

<hw>Ap*pur"te*nant</hw>, <tt>n</tt>, <def>Something which belongs or appertains to another thing; an appurtenance.</def>

<blockquote>Mysterious <b>appurtenants</b> and symbols of redemption. <i>Coleridge.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Apricate</h1> <Xpage=75>

<hw>Ap"ri*cate</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>v. t. & i.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>apricatus</ets>, p. p. of <ets>apricare</ets>, fr. <ets>apricus</ets> exposed to the sun, fr. <ets>aperire</ets> to uncover, open.]</ety> <def>To bask in the sun.</def>

<i>Boyle.</i>

<h1>Aprication</h1> <Xpage=75>

<hw>Ap`ri*ca"tion</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>Basking in the sun.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark>

<h1>Apricot</h1> <Xpage=75>

<hw>A"pri*cot</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[OE. <ets>apricock</ets>, <ets>abricot</ets>, F. <ets>abricot</ets>, fr. Sp. <ets>albaricoque</ets> or Pg. <ets>albricoque</ets>, fr. Ar. <ets>albirq<?/q</ets>, <ets>al</ets>-<ets>burq<?/q</ets>. Though the E. and F. form <ets>abricot</ets> is derived from the Arabic through the Spanish, yet the Arabic word itself was formed from the Gr. <?/, pl. (Diosc. c. 1000) fr. L. <ets>praecoquus</ets>, <ets>praecox</ets>, early ripe. The older E. form <ets>apricock</ets> was prob. taken direct from Pg. See <er>Precocious</er>, <er>Cook</er>.]</ety> <fld>(Bot.)</fld> <def>A fruit allied to the plum, of an orange color, oval shape, and delicious taste; also, the tree <spn>(Prunus Armeniaca of Linn\'91us)</spn> which bears this fruit. By cultivation it has been introduced throughout the temperate zone.</def>

<h1>April</h1> <Xpage=75>

<hw>A"pril</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>Aprilis</ets>. OE. also <ets>Averil</ets>, F. <ets>Avril</ets>, fr. L. <ets>Aprilis</ets>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>The fourth month of the year.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Fig.: With reference to April being the month in which vegetation begins to put forth, the variableness of its weather, etc.</def>

<blockquote>The <b>April's</b> her eyes; it is love's spring. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<cs><col>April fool</col>, <cd>one who is sportively imposed upon by others on the first day of April.</cd></cs>

<h1>A priori</h1> <Xpage=75>

<hw>A` pri*o"ri</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>. <ety>[L. <ets>a</ets> (<ets>ab</ets>) + <ets>prior</ets> former.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <fld>(Logic)</fld> <def>Characterizing that kind of reasoning which deduces consequences from definitions formed, or principles assumed, or which infers effects from causes previously known; deductive or deductively. The reverse of <i>a posteriori</i>.</def>

<p><b>3.</b> <fld>(Philos.)</fld> <def>Applied to knowledge and conceptions assumed, or presupposed, as prior to experience, in order to make experience rational or possible.</def>

<blockquote><b>A priori</b>, that is, form these necessities of the mind or forms of thinking, which, though first revealed to us by experience, must yet have pre\'89xisted in order to make experience possible. <i>Coleridge.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Apriorism</h1> <Xpage=75>

<hw>A`pri*o"rism</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Cf. F. <ets>apriorisme</ets>.]</ety> <def>An <i>a priori</i> principle.</def>