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appearances are usually termed pheno- 

 mena and phases. 



APPEL'LAXT, in church hittory, one who 

 appeals from the constitution of Unigeni- 

 tus to a general council. Milton. 



APPELLATION, the name by which any- 

 thing is distinguished when spoken of. 



Appellations are frequently vulgar 

 corruptions. .For instance, at the in- 

 stitution of yeomen of the guards, they 

 used to wait at table on great occa- 

 sions, and were ranged near the buffets, 

 which procured them the name of 

 buffetiers, now jocularly beef-eaters. The 

 designation of a sheriffs officer was 

 originally a bond or bound bayliffe, now 

 both written and pronounced bum bay- 

 liffe. The proclamation called " O yes," 

 was originally a proclamation com- 

 manding silence, being the French 

 word oyez, listen. Slackness is the cor- 

 ruption of blanc nes, or the white-head- 

 laud. Bull and mouth, vulgarised from 

 Boulogne mouth, means the port or har- 

 bour of Boulogne, which was taken by 

 Henry VIII., and became a popular 

 subject for signs. The bull and gate has 

 a similar origin, being the representa- 

 tion of the principal gate of Boulogne, 

 which Henry VIII.. Samson-like, car- 

 i >d away with him when he took the 

 to*n. 



API-EL'LATIVE, a common name in dis- 

 tinction to a proper name Appellatives 

 nand for whole ranks of beings ; e. g. 

 man is the name of the whole human 

 r&ce,fotcl of all winged animals. 



APPEX'DAGE, something added to a 

 principal, but not essential to it ; from ad 

 a.D.A.pendeo, to hang. In botany, the term 

 is applied to additional organs of plants 

 'vhi.-.h are not universal cr essential ; 

 u.'iLi^r* ia ono plant furnished w'th them 

 all, <. g. bdr'.ilrie, fiirJ. if^Tfs, donu. 

 prickles, tendiils, guilds. ail titirs 



AFPEN'DAXT, from Lat. appendo. Hang- 

 ing to something else, but not forming an 

 integrant part of it. In law, common 

 fippendant is a right belonging to the 

 owners or occupiers of lands to put com- 

 monable beasts upon the waste lands of 

 the manor. So also a common of fishing 

 may be appendant to a freehold. An ad- 

 vowson appendant is the right of patron- 

 age annexed to the possession of a manor. 

 APPEXDIC'CLATE, Lat. appendictdatus, 

 ippcndicled or appended. Applied to 

 parts of plants -which are furnished with 

 additional organs for some particular 

 purposes ; e. g. to flowers furnished with 

 some addition distinct from the tube; to 

 fiatioles with leafy films at the base ; to 

 seed furnished with hooks, scales, &c. 



APPEX'SUS, Lat. appendo, 1 hang up. 

 'When an ovule is attached to the placenta 

 by gome point intermediate between the 

 apti and the middle. 



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Ar'pETENCE, \ Lat. appetentia, deire, 



A> FETE.NCT, ) appetite. The disposition 



or power of organised bodies to select 



and imbibe such portions of matter as 



serve to support and nourish them. 



AP'PIAN-WAY, the most famous of the 

 highways leading from Rome, and con- 

 structed by the Censor, Appius Claudius, 

 *..c.c.442. 



APPLAU'SE, Lat. applausu*, approbation, 

 expressed by the hands, in distinction to 

 acclamation (q. T.) 



In the ancient theatres, persons were 

 appointed for the purpose of applaud- 

 ing, and masters were appointed to teach 

 them the art. There were three species, 

 viz. bmnbus, a confused din ; intbricet 

 and testae, by beating on a sort of sono- 

 rous vessels, placed in the theatres for 

 the purpose. The platisores or applauders 

 let themselves out on hire to the vain- 

 glorious among the poets and actors. 

 AP'FLE. In former times this word sig- 

 nified fruits in general, especially those of 

 a roundish form ; but now it is restricted 

 to that of the Pyrus mains, or cultivated 

 crab-apple of our hedges. The apple o) 

 love or love-apple, is the tomato or lyco- 

 persicum, a species of solatium. The 

 apple of the eye is the pupil. An apple- 

 graft is a scion of an apple-tree en- 

 grafted. 



AP'FLICATE, from Lat. applicatus, ap- 

 plied. In geometry, an applicate, or ordi- 

 nate applicate, is a right line drawn at 

 right angles across the axis of a curve, 

 and terminating at both ends in the curve , 

 called now more commonly a double ordi- 

 nate. 



APPLICATION , in Lat. applicc.tio, is the 

 laying of two things together. 1. In geo- 

 metry, a division for applying one qtum 

 tity to another : tne su-ea.s be :rg the same 

 and the figures different , or the tr.ini 

 f^r'ir^ of a given li'.e into a circle cr 

 otliex ilgure ; so thit lu ends shall be the 



perimeter of the figure. 2. In sermons, 



that part of tbe discourse in which the 

 principles, before laid down and illus- 

 trated, are practically applied. 



APPOOOIA'TO, in twwic (particularly in 

 sons , a blended and not abrupt utterance 

 of the tones, so that they insensibly 

 glide and melt into each other, without 

 any perceptible break. The term is Ital . 

 from appoggiare, to lean on. 



APPOGGIATC'RA, in music, a small addi- 

 tional note of embellishment, 

 preceding the note to which it 

 is attached, and taking away -* 

 from the principal note a por- - 

 tion of its time. Ital. from o;;- ~ 

 poggiato (q. v.) 



AppoR'TiONiiZNT.in laic, the dividing ol 

 a rent, &c. among the parties who lay 

 claim to it. 



APPBEX'TICS, from Fr. apiirmti. of <& 



