Chapter Approof to Apse of A by Webster's Dictionary (1913 Edition)

house or messuage. In a strict legal sense, land can never pass as an appurtenance to land. Tomlins. Bouvier. Burrill.

Globes . . . provided as appurtenances to astronomy.
Bacon.

The structure of the eye, and of its appurtenances.
Reid.

Appurtenant
(Ap*pur"te*nant) a. [F. appartenant, p. pr. of appartenir. See Appurtenance.] Annexed or pertaining to some more important thing; accessory; incident; as, a right of way appurtenant to land or buildings. Blackstone.

Common appurtenant. (Law) See under Common, n.

Appurtenant
(Ap*pur"te*nant), n. Something which belongs or appertains to another thing; an appurtenance.

Mysterious appurtenants and symbols of redemption.
Coleridge.

Apricate
(Ap"ri*cate) v. t. & i. [L. apricatus, p. p. of apricare, fr. apricus exposed to the sun, fr. aperire to uncover, open.] To bask in the sun. Boyle.

Aprication
(Ap`ri*ca"tion), n. Basking in the sun. [R.]

Apricot
(A"pri*cot), n. [OE. apricock, abricot, F. abricot, fr. Sp. albaricoque or Pg. albricoque, fr. Ar. albirquq, al-burquq. Though the E. and F. form abricot is derived from the Arabic through the Spanish, yet the Arabic word itself was formed from the Gr. praiko`kia, pl. (Diosc. c. 100) fr. L. praecoquus, praecox, early ripe. The older E. form apricock was prob. taken direct from Pg. See Precocious, Cook.] (Bot.) A fruit allied to the plum, of an orange color, oval shape, and delicious taste; also, the tree (Prunus Armeniaca of Linnæus) which bears this fruit. By cultivation it has been introduced throughout the temperate zone.

April
(A"pril) n. [L. Aprilis. OE. also Averil, F. Avril, fr. L. Aprilis.]

1. The fourth month of the year.

2. Fig.: With reference to April being the month in which vegetation begins to put forth, the variableness of its weather, etc.

The April's her eyes; it is love's spring.
Shak.

April fool, one who is sportively imposed upon by others on the first day of April.

A priori
(||A` pri*o"ri) [L. a (ab) + prior former.]

1. (Logic) 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 a posteriori.

3. (Philos.) Applied to knowledge and conceptions assumed, or presupposed, as prior to experience, in order to make experience rational or possible.

A priori, that is, form these necessities of the mind or forms of thinking, which, though first revealed to us by experience, must yet have preëxisted in order to make experience possible.
Coleridge.

Apriorism
(A`pri*o"rism) n. [Cf. F. apriorisme.] An a priori principle.

Apriority
(A`pri*or"i*ty) n. The quality of being innate in the mind, or prior to experience; a priori reasoning.