applausiont (aplazhon)

Applause. applausive (a-pla's iv), a. [ The soldiers, as you heard, my lord, Did fill the air with their applausive shouts. Dekker and Webster (?), Weakest Goeth to the Wall, v. 1. Greet her with applausive breath. Tennyson, Vision of Sin. 21. Worthy of applause. Chapman. apple (ap'l), n. [ varieties, and its fruit is in universal use. It was introduced into America from England in 1629, by the governor of Ma achusetts Bay. It is scarcely known in its wild state, but as an escape from cultivation its fruit becomes small, acid, and harsh, and is known as the crab. The cultivated crab-apple is the fruit of other species of Pyrus. See crab2. 2. The tree itself, Pyrus Malus.-3. A name popularly given to various fruits or trees having little or nothing in common with the apple. Among them are: Adam's apple (the lime, a variety of Citrus medic a, and the plantain, Musa paradisi aca ); the alligator-apple, Anona palustris; the balsam apple, Momordica Balsam in a; the wild balsam-apple, Ech i no cyst is lobata; the beefor bull-apple, Sideroxylon rugosum; the bitter apple or colocynth, Citrullus Colo cynthis; the apple of Cain, Arbutus Unedo; the cedar apple, an excrescence upon the juniper caused by a fungus IMG:content-0991.png:[blocks in formation] of A. Two hundred and eighty applauders at three shillings a Carlyle, French Rev., II. v. A man in his natural perfection is fierce,... appetit- day. ing by generation to bring forth his semblable. Sir T. Elyot , The Govern our, p. 70. 2. To satisfy the appetite or desire of.