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the court faid, the trade of a raker is within the words 
of the act; and no averment of the trade’s being ufed at 
the time of the adt is' necelfary, but where the trade only 
fails within the general conclufion of the claufe at laft. 
1 Barnardijl. 277. 
Except he fnall have been brought up therein Jeven years. 
E. 11 Will. K. and Fox. Indictment for tiling the trade 
of a taylor, not having lerved feven years, was quafhed, 
becanle it is laid only, not having ferved as an apprentice 
within England or Wales; for it may be he did fo beyond 
fea, and if it were any where it fufficeth. 1 Salk. 67. 
As an apprentice. E. 5 Anne, Q. and Maddox. By the 
court : Upon indictment on this ftatute, in evidence we 
allow following the trade for feven years to be fufficient, 
without any binding, this being a hard law. 2 Salk. 613. 
T. 3 Geo. II. K. and Morrice. On an indidtment for ex- 
erciiing a trade, without having ferved a legal appren- 
ticefhip ; the defendant offered to give evidence of his 
having exercifed his-trade for feven years, as being tanta¬ 
mount to his having ferved an apprenti'cefhip for that time. 
Eyre, Ch. J. laid, that the cafes indeed had gone fo far, 
as to allow a wife’s living in the Ihop with tier hufband 
for feven years to be equivalent to an apprenticelhip ; but 
lie thought the prefent cafe not ftrong enough to come up 
to the meaning of the ftatute. Accordingly the evidence 
was difallowed. 1 Barnard. 367. But in the cal’e of Wallen 
and Iiollon, at the affixes for Berklhire, T. 33 Geo. II. On 
an information againlt the defendant for exercifing the 
trade of a baker contrary to the ftatute, it appeared in evi¬ 
dence that lie had followed it twelve years, but never had 
been an apprentice, nor ferved with any perfon as fuck. 
On a cafe relerved, baron Adams, before whom it was 
tried, confulted the eleven judges; who all joined with him 
in opinion, that exerciling a trade leven years, without any 
prolecution with effedt,was a fufficicnt qualification. Blackjl. 
Rep. 233. 
Nor to fe.t any perfon on work therein , except he Jhall have 
been apprentice as ajorefaid. But by 17 Geo. III. c. 33. with 
refpect to the counties of Middlelex, Edex, Surrey, and 
Kent, for want of a fufficient numberof perfons who have 
ferved apprenticelhips to the trade of a dyer, it lliall be 
lawful for any perfon exercifing that trade within any of 
the faid counties, to employ fuch number of journeymen, 
fervants, and labourers, as he lliall have occalion for, with¬ 
out incurring any penalty. 
Or elfe having ferved as an apprentice, will become a jour¬ 
neyman. M. 26 Car. II. K. and Moor. The defendant was 
indiCted for tiling the trade of a weaver, not having ferved 
as an apprentice feveivyears ; the eyidence was, he ferved 
fix as an apprentice, and had fince as journeyman in the 
fame trade worked above that time. And, by the court, 
the ferving of feven years is fufficient either way; and the 
defendant was found not guilty. 3 Keb. 400. 
fa Apprentice, ». a. To put out to a mailer as an 
apprentice: 
Him portion’d maids, apprentic'd orphans, bleft, 
The young who labour, and the old who reft. Pope. 
APPREN'TICEHOOD,yi The years of an appren¬ 
tice’s fervitude : 
Mud I not ferve a long apprenticchood 
To foreign paliages, and in the end, 
Having my freedom, boaft of nothing elfe, 
But that I was a journeyman to grief? Shakefpeare. 
APPRENTICESHIP,/. The years which an appren¬ 
tice is to ferve under a malter. — In every art, the fnnplefl 
hat is, there is an afiprcnticefhip necelfary, before it can be 
expeCted one ftiouldwork. Digby. 
To APPRI'ZE, v. a. [ apprendre , Fr. part, appris.] To 
inform; to give the knowledge of any thing.-—He conli- 
ders the tendency of fuch a virtue or vice; he is well ap¬ 
prized, that the reprefentation of fome of^liefe things may 
convince the underftanding, and fome may -terrify the 
' confidence. Waits. 
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To APPRO A'CH, v. n. [approcher, Fr.] To draw near 
locally.—’ Pis time to look about: the powers of the king¬ 
dom approach apace. Shakefpeare .— To draw near, as time. 
To make progrefs towards, in the figurative fenfe, as men¬ 
tally.—To have knowledge in all the objects of contem¬ 
plation, is what the mind can hardly attain unto; the in- 
ftances are few of tliofe who have, in any mealure, ap¬ 
proached towards it. Locke .— To come near, by natural 
affinity, or refcmblance ; as, The cal approaches to the tiger. 
To Approach, v. a. To bring near to. This fenfe is 
rather French than Englifli.—By plunging paper thorough¬ 
ly in weak fpirit of wine, and approaching it to a candle, 
the fpirituous parts will burn, without harming the paper. 
Boyle.- —To come near to.. — He was an admirable poet, and 
thought even to have approached Homer. Temple. 
Approach, f. The aCt of drawing near: 
’Tis with our fouls 
As with our eyes, that after a long darknefs 
Are dazzled at th’ approach of hidden light. Denham. 
Accefs.—Honour hath in it the vantage-ground to do 
good ; the approach to kings and principal perfons ; and the 
railing of a man’s own fortunes. Bacon .— Hoftile advance. 
Means of advancing: 
Hills pil’d on hills, on mountains mountains lie, 
To make their mad approaches to the Iky. Dryden. 
APPROACK'ER,/. The perfon that approaches or 
draws near. 
APPROACH'ES,/ in fortification, the works thrown 
up by the beliegers, in order to get nearer a fortrefs, with¬ 
out being expofed to the enemy’s cannon. See Fortifi¬ 
cation. 
APPROACH'ING, f. in 'fowling, a term ufed to ex- 
prefs fuch devices as are contrived for the getting within 
lliot of ftiy birds. The belt method is by means of three 
hoops tied together at proper diftances according to the 
height of the man that is to ufe it, and having boughs of 
trees tied all round it, with cords to hang it over his fhoul- 
dersj^man, getting into this, conceals himfelf, and ap- 
proaclW by degrees towards his game in the form of a 
moving bulk. Geefe, ducks, and teal, quit the waters in 
the evening, and pafs the night in the fields; but at the 
approach of morning they return to the water again, and 
even when on the water they will retire to great diftances, 
on the approach even of a hone or co v, fo that the buli- 
nefs of the (talking horfe is of little ufe; but this device 
of anproaching by the moving btilh fucceeds tolerably well. 
APPRO AC H'MENT, f The aft of coming near.— 
As for ice, it will not concrete but in the appsoachment of 
the air, as we have made trial in glades of water, which 
will not eaftly freeze. Brown. 
APPPv.OB A'TION,/ \_approbatio, Lat. ] Theadt of ap¬ 
proving, or exprelling ourfelves pleafed or fatisfied. 
Moralifts are divided on the principle of approbation or 
the motive which determines us to approve and dilapprove. 
The Epicureans will have it to be only felf-intereft: ac¬ 
cording to them, that which determines any agent to ap¬ 
prove his own adtion, is its apparent tendency to his pri¬ 
vate happinefs; and even the approbation of another’s 
adtion flows from no other caufe but an opinion of its ten¬ 
dency to the happinefs of the approver, either immedi¬ 
ately or remotely. Others refolve approbation into a 
moral fenfe, or a principle of benevolence by which we 
are determined to approve every kind affedlion either in 
ourfelves or others, and all public!v ufeful actions, which 
we imagine to flow from fuch affedlion, without any view 
therein to our own private happinefs. 
APPRO'OF,/ [from approve, disproof icomprove. ] Ap¬ 
probation; commendation: a word rightly derived, but old : 
O mod: perilous mouths, 
That bear in them one and the felf-fame tongue 
Either of condemnation or approof! Shakefpeare . 
To APPRO'PERATE, v. a. [ appropero, Lat.] To haf- 
ten; to let forward. 
To 
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