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Apple-jack to Appraise

Apple-jack
(Ap"ple-jack`) n. Apple brandy. [U.S.]

Apple-john
(Ap"ple-john`), n.. A kind of apple which by keeping becomes much withered; — called also Johnapple. Shak.

Apple pie
(Ap"ple pie`) A pie made of apples (usually sliced or stewed) with spice and sugar.

Apple-pie bed, a bed in which, as a joke, the sheets are so doubled (like the cover of an apple turnover) as to prevent any one from getting at his length between them. Halliwell Conybeare. — Apple-pie order, perfect order or arrangement. [Colloq.] Halliwell.

Apple-squire
(Ap"ple-squire`) n. A pimp; a kept gallant. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl.

Appliable
(Ap*pli"a*ble) a. [See Apply.] Applicable; also, compliant. [Obs.] Howell.

Appliance
(Ap*pli"ance) n.

1. The act of applying; application; [Obs.] subservience. Shak.

2. The thing applied or used as a means to an end; an apparatus or device; as, to use various appliances; a mechanical appliance; a machine with its appliances.

Applicability
(Ap`pli*ca*bil"i*ty) n. The quality of being applicable or fit to be applied.

Applicable
(Ap"pli*ca*ble) a. [Cf. F. aplicable, fr. L. applicare. See Apply.] Capable of being applied; fit or suitable to be applied; having relevance; as, this observation is applicable to the case under consideration. — Ap"pli*ca*ble*ness, n. — Ap"pli*ca*bly, adv.

Applicancy
(Ap"pli*can*cy) n. The quality or state of being applicable. [R.]

Applicant
(Ap"pli*cant) n. [L. applicans, p. pr. of applicare. See Apply.] One who apples for something; one who makes request; a petitioner.

The applicant for a cup of water.
Plumtre.

The court require the applicant to appear in person.
Z. Swift.

Applicate
(Ap"pli*cate) a. [L. applicatus, p. p. of applicare. See Apply.] Applied or put to some use.

Those applicate sciences which extend the power of man over the elements.
I. Taylor.

Applicate number (Math.), one which applied to some concrete case. — Applicate ordinate, right line applied at right angles to the axis of any conic section, and bounded by the curve.

Applicate
(Ap"pli*cate) v. i. To apply. [Obs.]

The act of faith is applicated to the object.
Bp. Pearson.

Application
(Ap`pli*ca"tion) n. [L. applicatio, fr. applicare: cf. F. application. See Apply.]

1. The act of applying or laying on, in a literal sense; as, the application of emollients to a diseased limb.

2. The thing applied.

He invented a new application by which blood might be stanched.
Johnson.