None haue their eyes all of one color: for the bal or apple in the midst is ordinarily of another color than the white about it. Ibid. XI. 37.

Appoint, v. t. (Gen. xxx. 28). The Hebrew literally signifies to prick, expressly name;' thus corresponding to the O. E. 'prick out' as used in Shakespeare (Love's L. Lost, v. 2); The whole world again

Cannot prick out five such.

From O. Fr. à poinct, aptly, in good time, fully,' comes appoinct, fitness, &c,' and appoincter, 'to pronounce fitting, determine.' Hence in Shakespeare the expressions to point and at point;

Hast thou, spirit,

Performed to point the tempest that I bade thee?

A figure like your father, arm'd at point.

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Temp. I. 2.

The latter of these passages illustrates the usage of 'appointed' in the sense of equipped' in Judg. xviii. 11. (Heb. 'girt'). In the sense of expressly naming, as in the verse of Genesis above quoted, it occurs in Latimer (Rem. p. 308); ‘I name nor appoint no person nor persons.'

Appoint out' in Josh. xx. 2, is the translation of what is elsewhere rendered 'assign,' as in v. 8 (see also Gen. xxiv. 44). In this sense 'appoint' is used in Gen. xxx. 28, and by Latimer (Serm. p. 304); 'But who shall appoint him a sufficient living? himself? Nay. Who then? you? Nay, neither. The king must appoint him sufficient to live upon.'

The king would vndoubtedly yf he had entended that thinge haue appointed that boocherly office to some other then his owne borne brother. Sir T. More's Rich. III. (Works, p. 37 g).

All Wales and the landes beyond Seuerne westward, were appoyncted to Owen Glendor. Hall, Hen. IV. fol. 20 b.

Among these captains, lords, and knights of skill,
Appoint me ten, approued most in fight.

Fairfax's Tasso, IV. 63.

Appointed, pp. (Judg. xviii. 11). Equipped.

It shall be so my care

To have you royally appointed as if

The scene you play were mine.

Shakespeare, Winter's Tale, IV. 4.

And so I do, and with his gifts present

Your lordships, that whenever you have need,
You may be armed and appointed well.

Id. Titus Andron. IV. 2.

Apprehend, v. t. From the Latin 'apprehendo,' literally means to lay hold of, to take by the hand, in which sense it is used in Phil. iii. 12. The passage throughout has reference to the Grecian games; apprehend in the first part of the sentence meaning to lay hold of the goal, and so receive the prize; in the second part, meaning take hold of by the hand and introduce to the course, as was customary. Johnson quotes from Jeremy Taylor, Holy Living, II. 6;

There is nothing but hath a double handle, or at least we have two hands to apprehend it.

Approve, v. t. From Lat. probus, 'honest, good,' comes probare, 'to deem good;' whence approbare, and Fr. approver. It is used in two senses in the New Testament: 1. To prove, demonstrate; Acts ii. 22; 2 Cor. vi. 4, vii, 11. So Shakespeare (Mer. of Ven. III. 2):

In religion,

What damned error, but some sober brow
Will bless it and approve it with a text?

2. To put to the proof, test, try; as in Rom. ii. 18; Phil. i.

IO.

Nay task me to the word, approve me, lord.
Id. 1 Hen. IV. IV. I.

He is of a noble strain, of approved valour and confirmed honesty. Id. Much Ado, II. I.

Apt, adj. From Lat. aptus, fit, adapted. (2 Kings xxiv. 16; 1 Tim. iii. 2; 2 Tim. ii. 24.) In the phrase 'apt to melt,' Wisd. xix. 21, it seems to come near to the modern sense of 'inclined or disposed.'

The earthe is not apte for wines. Pol..Vergil, 1. 20.

Any fish that takes salt, of which the herring is the aptest. Nashe, Lenten Stuffe, pref.

No man that putteth his hand to the plough, and looketh back, is apt for the kingdom of God. Luke ix. quoted in Latimer, Serm. p. 59.

So are there states, great in territorie, and yet not apt to enlarge, or command; and some, that have but a small dimension of stemme, and yet apt to be the foundations of great monarchies. Bacon, Ess. XXIX. p. 120.

Ark, sb. (Ex. ii. 3). Lat. arca; A.S. arc, earc, a chest, coffer. In this literal sense it was used in old English.

In the rich arke Dan Homer's rimes he placed.

You have beheld how they
With wicker arks did come,

To kisse and beare away
The richer couslips home.

Surrey, Sonnets.

Herrick, Hesperides, I. p. 147.

It is generally applied exclusively to Noah's Ark, and the Ark of the Covenant. The meal-ark, made of stout oak boards, often beautifully carved, is still an article of furniture in oldfashioned farmhouses in Yorkshire; and at one time the fabrication of such arks was a trade of sufficient importance to have originated the surname Arkwright. The parish-chest is called an ark in some old_accounts: '1744, pd. Wm. Yates for setting up ark, Ecclesfield, Yorks. Hunter (Hallams. Gloss.) says, that the strong boxes in which the Jews kept their valuables were anciently called their arks; so that our translators had good preced

ent for so terming the sacred coffer in which were kept the two tables of stone written by the finger of God, and other things, which if lost could never be replaced.

Array, sb. (1 Tim. ii. 9). Dress, raiment.

Albe it she were out of al array saue her kyrtle only. Sir T. More, Works, p. 56 f.

Arrogancy, sb. (1 Sam. ii. 3; Prov. viii. 13; Is. xiii. II; Jer. xlviii. 29). Lat. arrogantia from arrogare 'to claim,' and then 'to claim more than one's due.' The old form of arrogance,' as 'innocency' for 'innocence,' 'insolency' for 'insolence,' &c.

But your heart

Is crammed with arrogancy, spleen and pride.

Shakespeare, Hen. VIII. II. 4.

Notwithstanding, so much is true; that the carriage of greatnesse, in a plaine and open manner (so it be without arroyancy, and vaine glory) doth draw lesse envy, then if it be in a more crafty, and cunning fashion. Bacon, Ess. IX. p. 33.

Artificer, sb. (Gen. iv. 22; 1 Chr. xxix. 5; Is. iii. 3). A skilled workman, artisan; Lat. Artifex.

Thither (i. e. to Delos), as to a mart or fair, there was great resort of chapmen from all parts of the world; and specially of those artificers who were curious in making of table feet, trestles, and bed-steads. Holland's Pliny, XXXIV. 2.

Another lean, unwash'd artificer

Cuts off his tale, and talks of Arthur's death.

Shakespeare, K. John, IV. 2.

Artillery, sb. (1 Sam. xx. 40; 1 Macc. vi. 51). From Lat. ars, and artificium, which were used in Med. Lat. to denote an implement, and especially an implement of war (just as from ingenium is derived engine), were formed artiliaria a workshop (Fr. atelier), thence an implement in general, and the Fr. artillerie. The word artillery was

used long before the invention of gunpowder to denote missile weapons in general.

Caractacus...choosinge suche place for the planting his artillerie. Polid. Vergil, p. 67.

Of the great serpent 120 feet in length killed by Regulus in Africa, it is said that he

Was driven to discharge vpon him arrowes, quarrels, stones, bullets, and such like shot, out of brakes, slings, and other engins of artillery. Holland's Pliny, VIII. 14.

And even after the introduction of cannon into warfare, before archery was entirely superseded, there appears to have been a distinction between ordnance and artillery, the former being specially applied to the new weapons. So Latimer, of the devil:

He is a great warrior, and also of great power in this world; he hath great ordnance and artillery. Serm. p. 27.

In 1 Macc. vi. 51, the marginal reading is 'mounds to shoot;' Geneva Vers. 'instruments to shoote.'

In his French Dictionary (1611) Cotgrave gives, “Artillier: m. A Bowyer, or Bow-maker; also, a Fletcher; or one that makes both bowes, and arrowes.”

Art magic, sb. (Wisd. xvii. 7). Magic; lit. from Lat. ars magica, as 'arsmetrike,' by a false etymology (ars metrica), for arithmetic (Chaucer, Knight's Tale, 1900). There is no doubt that 'art, magic,' in the following passage from Latimer's Sermons, (p. 349) printed for the Parker Society, should be art-magic; in the edition of 1571 it is 'art Magike.'

We require that all witchcrafts be removed; that art, magic, and sorcery, be pulled out, necromancy taken away.

Asp, sb. (Deut. xxxii. 33; Job xx. 14, 16; Is. xi. 8; Rom. iii. 13). Gk. ȧoris; Lat. aspis. A small serpent, the Coluber Naja of Egypt, whose bite is said to be so poisonous that it kills almost instantly. At the time of the