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A P P { w ) A P S , neral or fpecial. Thefe are called ap^f!hrive;. So APPREHENSION, in logic, the firft or moft fimpfe f fiih, bird, man, city, river, are common names ; and adt of the mind, whereby it perceives, or is confcious fo are troot, eel, lobfter ; for they all agree to many of fome idea. See Perception, and Logic. ' individuals, and fome to many ipecies. APPRYSING, in Scots law, the name of that adtion APPELLEE, among lawyers, the perfon againft whom by which a creditor formerly carried off the eftate of his debtor for payment. It is now aboliffied, and adan appeal is brought. See Appeal. APPENDIX, in literature, a treatife added at the end judications are appointed in place of it." See Scots of a work, to render it more complete. Law, title, Appryjtngs and Adjudication!. APPERCEPTION, or Adperception, a term tiled APPROACH, or Approaching, in a general fenfe, by Leibnitz and his followers for confcioufnefs. the acceding or coming together of two or more things. APPERTINANCES, the fame with appurtenances. APPROACHES, in fortification, the works thrown up by the befiegers, in order to get nearer a fortrefs, See Appurtenances. APPETITE, in a general fenfe, the defire of enjoying without being expofed to the enemies cannon. Tome objedt fuppofed to be conducive to our happinefs. APPROACHING, in gardening, the inoculating or inAppfcrrTE, in medicine, a certain painful or uneafy fen- grafting the fprig of one tree into another, without fation, always accompanied with a defire to eat or cutting it off from the parent-tree. drink. Approaching, in fowling, a method of getting nearer APPLAUSE, an approbation of fomething, fignified by the birds by means of a machine, made of hoops and clapping the hands, ftill pradhfed in theatres. bopghs of trees, within which the fportfman conceals APPLE, the fruit of the pyrus mains, or apple-tree. himfelf. See Pyrus. APPROPRIARE comntuniam, in law, is to difcomApple of the eye, a name not unfrequently given to the raon, that is, to inclofe any parcel of land that before pupil. Seep. 289. was open and common. APPLEBY, the chief town of the county0 of Weflmore- Appropriare ad honorem, to bring a manor within land, fituated on the river Eden, in 2 2(3 W. long, the liberty of an honour. See Manor, and Honour. 0 and 54 30/N. lat. It fends two members to parlia- APPROPRIATION, in Lw, a fevering of a benefice ment. ecclefiallical to the proper and perpetual ufe of fome APPLICATE,, or-ORDiNATE applicate, in geometry. religious houfe, or dean and chapter, biflioprick, or See Ordinate. college; becaufe, as perfons ordinarily have no right APPLICATION, in a general fenfe, is the laying two of fee fimple, thefe, by reafon of their perpetuity, are things together, in order to difcover their agreement accounted owners of the fee fimple; and therefore are or difagreement. called proprietors. To an appropriation, after the liApplication, in geometry, is ufed either for divifion, cence obtained of the king in chancery, the confent for applying one quantity to another, whofe arreas, of the diocefan, patron, and incumbent, are neceflabut not figures, lhall be the fame; or, for transferring ry, if the church be full; but, if the church be void, a given line into a circle, or other figure, fo that its the diocefan and the patron, upon the king’s licence, may conclude. ends lhall be in the perimeter of the figure. Application, among divines, a term ufed to fignify APPROXIMATION, in arithmetic and algebra, the coming nearer and nearer to a r6ot, or other quantity the fame as imputation. See Imputation. APPOGIATURA, in mufic, a fmall note inferted by fought, without expeding to be ever able to find it the practical mufician, between two others, at fome exadly. APPUI, in the menage, the fenfe of the adion of the diftance. APPOINTED, a foot-foldier, or officer in the French bridle in the horfeman’s hand. Thus we fay, a horfe army, who receives a greater pay than others of the has no appui, when he cannot fuffer the bit to bear fame rank, in confideration of his valour or long fer- never fo little upon the parts of the mouth. To give a horfe a good appui, he fltould be galloped, and put Appointe'e, in heraldry, the fame a.s aguifee: Thus often back. we fay, a crofs appointee, to fignify that which two APPUXSE, in aftronomy, the approach of a planet toangles at the end cut off, fo as to terminate in points. wards a conjundion with the fun or any of the fixed APPOINTMENT, in a general fefife, the fame as af- liars. fignation. See Assignation. In a more reftrained APRICOT, in botany, the Englilh name of the prunus fenfe, it fignifies a penfion given by princes and noble- Armeniaca. See Prunus. APRIL, in chronology, the fourth month of the year, men to retain certain perfons in their fervice. APPORTIONMENT, in law, the divifion of a rent containing only 30 days. into parts, in the fame manner as the land out of which A PRIORI, a kind of demonfiration. See Demonstration. it.iffues is divided. APPOSITION, in grammar, the placing two or more APRON, in gunnery, the piece of lead which covers the fubftantives together in the fame cafe, without any touch-hole of a cannon. See Cannon. copulative conjunction between them; as, Ardebat A- APSIS, in aftronomy, a term ufed indifferently for either of the two points of a planet’s orbit, where it is at lexim delicts! doruini. the greateft or leaft diftance from the fun or Hence earth. Appraising. See Apprysing.
