apriorist

[Lat. a prior i (q.v.); -ist.] One who acc pts Kant's teaching as to a prior i cognitions. IMG:content-0667.png:[blocks in formation] (a) A piece of curved timber fixed behind the lower part of the stem of a ship immediately above the foremost end of the keel. ( Webster .) (b) A platform or flooring of plank raised at the entrance of a dock, against which the dock-gates are shut. ( Webster .) 3. Mech . The piece that holds the cutting tool in a planing machine. (Good rich & Porter .) 4. Plumbing: A strip of lead which leads the drip of a wall into a gutter; a flashing . apron-lining, s. House Carpentry: The cover of the apr on piece (q.v.).