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be tifed without a prepofiticn; as, I approve your letter, or, 
of your letter. 
APPROVEMENT, J. Approbation; liking. — It is 
certain that at the nrll you were all of my opinion, and that 
J did nothing without your approvement. Hayward. 
Approvement, in law, by the itatute of Merton, 20 
Hen. III. c. 4. is where a man hath common in the lord’s 
walle, and the lord makes an inclofure of part of the wafte 
for himfelf, leaving ftifficient common with egrefs and re- 
grefs for the commoners. If there be not fufficient com¬ 
mon left for the tenant, he may have a writ of affize, and 
by 3 dr 4 Edw. VI. c. 3. (hall recover treble damages, and 
a commoner may break down an inclofure, if the lord doth 
inclofe part of the common, and not leave fufficient room 
in the refidue; but if any, upon juft title of approvement, 
do make a hedge or ditch for that purpofe, which after¬ 
wards is thrown down in the night by perfons unknown, 
the towns adjoining may be didrained to make fitch hedge 
at their own charges, for which there is a writ (noclant- r) 
in the regider. 13 Edw. I. c.46. But in the cafe of Du- 
btrle.y v. Page. E. 28 Geo. III. it was determined, that the 
ford has no right under the datnte of Merton to inclofe 
and approve the wades of a manor, where the tenants of 
the manor have a right to dig gravel on the wades, or to 
take gjlovers there. Cafes by Durnford and Eaft. 2 V. 391. 
APPROVER,_/! He that approves ; lie that makes trial. 
Approver, inlaw, is a perfon indicted of treafon or 
felony, and in prifon for the fame, who, upon his arraign¬ 
ment, before any plea pleaded, doth confefs the indict¬ 
ment, and takes a corporal oath to reveal all treafons and 
felonies that he knowetli of, and therefore prays a coroner, 
before whom he is to enter his appeal or accusation againd 
thofe that are partners in the crime contained in the in¬ 
dictment, and this accufation of himfelf, and oath, makes 
the accufation 'of another perfon of the fame crime to 
amount to an indictment; and if his partners are convicted 
he lhall have his pardon of courfe. But as it is in the dif- 
cretion of the court, whether they will fuffer one to be an 
approver, this method is now out of life; but in many cafes 
we have what amounts to the fame thing by datute, where 
pardon is allured to offenders on difeovering and conviCting 
their accomplices. 3 Inf. 129. 
Approver, is particularly ufed in ancient law writers, 
for a bailiff or land-deward, appointed to have the care of 
a manor, franchife, or the like, and improve and make the 
mod of it for tire benefit of his mader. In this fenfe, the 
word is alfo written appruare. 
APPROXIMATE, adj. [from ad, to, and proximus , 
Tat. near.] Near to.—Thefe receive a quick converfion, 
containing approximate difpofitions unto animation. Brown. 
APPROX 1 MA'TION, J. Approach to any thing.— 
The fiery region gains upon the inferior elements; a ne- 
ceffary confequent of the fun’s gradual approximation to¬ 
wards the earth. Hale .■—In fcience, a continual approach 
nearep dill, and nearer, to the quantity fought, though per¬ 
haps without a poffibiiity of ever arriving at it exaftly. 
APPUI', [q. d. red or day upon the hand.] In the ma¬ 
nege, is .the reciprocal effort between the horfe’s mouth 
and the bridle-hand, or the fenfe of the aCtion of the bridle 
on the hand of the horfeman. A jud appui of the hand, 
is the nice bearing up or day of the bridle, fo that the 
horfe, being awed by the fenfibility and tendernefs of his 
mouth, dares not red too much upon the bit, nor check 
or beat upon the hand to withftand it. A horfe is faid to 
have no appui, when he is too apprehenfive of the hand, 
and cannot bear the bit; and too much appui, when he reds 
or throws himfelf hard upon the bit. Horfes defigned for 
the army ought to have a full appui upon the hand. To 
give a horfe a good appui, he (hould be kept reined up, 
galloped, and put often back. 
APPUL'SE, f. \_appulfus, Tat.,] The aft of ftriking 
againd any thing.—An heCtic fever is the innate heat kin¬ 
dled into a dedruClive fire, through the appulfe of faline 
dreams. Harvey. —In vowels, the paffage of the mouth is 
open and free, without any a.ppuife of an organ pf fpeecli 
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to another: but, in all confonants, there is an appulfe of 
the organs. Holder. 
AppOlse, in adronomy, means the aftual contaft of 
two luminaries, according to fome authors; but others de- 
feribe it as their near approach to each other, fo as to be 
feen, for indance, within the fame telefcope. The ap- 
pulfcs of the planets to the fixed dars have always been 
very ttfeful to aftronomers, as ferving to fix and determine 
the places of the former. The ancients, wanting an eafy 
method of comparing the planets with the ecliptic, which 
is not vilible, had fcarcely any other way of fixing their 
fituations, but by obferving their track among the fixed 
dars, and marking their appulfes to fome of thofe vilible 
points. Dr. Halley has pnblifhed a map or planifphere of 
the darry zodiac, in which are accurately laid down all the 
dars to which the moon’s appulfe has ever been obferved 
in any part of the world. See Philof. Tranf. No. 369 ; or 
Abridg. vol.vi. p. 170. 
APPCJR'TEN ANCES, f. [ pertinentia, Lat.] In law, 
fignify things both corporeal and incorporeal, appertaining 
to fome other thing as principal: as an hamlet to a chief 
manor, common of paiture to lands, common of edovers 
to an houfe, outhoufes, yards, orchards ; gardens are ap¬ 
purtenant to a meffuage ; but lands cannot properly be faid 
to be appurtenant to a meffuage. 1 Lil. Abr. 91. Turbary 
may be appurtenant to an houfe, but not to lands; a leet 
may be appurtenant to a manor, but not to an houfe, for 
the things mud agree in nature and quality. 1 Inf. 121. 
To A' PR I CATE, v.n. [ ' apricor, Lat.] To balk in the fun. 
APRI'CITY, f. [ apricitas , Lat.] Warmth of the fun; 
fun-ffiine. 
A'PRICOT,/! in botany. See Pru’nus. 
A'PRIES, fon of Pfammis, king of Egypt; the fame 
with Pharaoh Hophrah in Jeremiah and Ezekiel. He ruined 
Sidon, and fome fay he put Jeremiah to death. He thought 
neither God nor man could dethrone him; which yet was 
eafily done by Amafis, and he himfelf was drangled by the 
Egyptians. 
A'PRIL, [ Aprilis , Lat. of aperio, I open; becaufe the 
earth, in this month, begins to open her bofom for the pro¬ 
duction of vegetables.] The fourth month of the year ac 
cording to the common computation, and the fecond from 
the vernal equinox. In this month the fun travels through 
part of the fignsof Aries and Taurus.— Aprilis reprefented 
by a young man in green, with a garland of myrtle and 
hawthorn buds ; in one hand primrofes and violets, in the 
other the fign Taurus. Peacham. —Men are April when they 
woo, December when they wed: Maids are May when 
they are maids, but the (ky changes when they are wives. 
Skakejpearc. 
A PRIO'RI, a kind of demondration. See Demon¬ 
stration. 
A'PRON,/. [a word of uncertain etymology, but fup- 
pofed by fome to be contracLed from afore one. ] A cloth 
hung before, to keep the other drefs clean.—In thefe fi¬ 
gures the ved is gathered up before them, like an apron, 
which you mud fuppofe filled with fruits. Addifon. 
Apron, in naval architecture, a piece of curved tim¬ 
ber fixed behind the lower part of the dern, immediately 
above the foremod end of the keel. 
Apron is alio a name given to a platform or flooringof 
plank, raffed at the entrance of a dock, againd which the 
dock-gates are diut. 
Apron, in gunnery, a piece of lead which caps or co¬ 
vers the vent or touch-hole of a great gun. 
A'PRONED, adj. Wearing an apron : 
The cobler apron’d , and the parfon gown’d. Pope. 
APSINTHA'TUM,/ [fromai]/u$tov, wormwood.] A 
fort of drink accommodated to the domach. 
APSIN'THIUM,/. in botony. See Artemisia. 
AP'SIS,/ [apfes, or apfdes, plural: from Gr.] In 
adronomy, are the points in the orbits of planets, where 
they are at their greated and lead didance from the fun or 
the earth. The point at the greated didance being called 
the 
