‖n. [ NL., fr. Gr. &unr_; indistinct, uncertain. ] (Paleon.) A genus of trilobites found in the Lower Silurian formation. See Illust. in Append. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖‖ n. [ Prob. Indian name. ] (Zool.) The American flying squirrel (Pteromys volucella). [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ See Apparel, v. t. ] [ Pref. dis- + apparel: cf. OF. desapareiller. ] To disrobe; to strip of apparel; to make naked. [ 1913 Webster ]

Drink disapparels the soul. Junius (1635). [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Disappeared p. pr. & vb. n. Disappearing. ] 1. To cease to appear or to be perceived; to pass from view, gradually or suddenly; to vanish; to be no longer seen; as, darkness disappears at the approach of light; a ship disappears as she sails from port. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To cease to be or exist; as, the epidemic has disappeared. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of disappearing; cessation of appearance; removal from sight; vanishing. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

p. pr. & vb. n. of Disappear.

Disappearing carriage (Ordnance), a carriage for heavy coast guns on which the gun is raised above the parapet for firing and upon discharge is lowered behind the parapet for protection. The standard type of disappearing carriage in the coast artillery of the United States army is the Buffington-Crozier carriage, in which the gun trunnions are secured at the upper and after ends of a pair of heavy levers, at the lower ends of which is attached a counterweight of lead. The levers are pivoted at their middle points, which are, with the top carriage, permitted restrained motion along the slightly inclined chassis rails. The counterweight is held in place by a pawl and ratchet. When the gun is loaded the pawl is released and the counterweight sinks, raising the gun to the firing position above the parapet. The recoil following the discharge returns the gun to the loading position, the counterweight rising until the pawl engages the ratchet. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. A detachment or separation from a former connection. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Freed from a former connection or dependence; disconnected. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Disapointed; p. pr. & vb. n. Disappointing. ] [ OF. desapointier, F. désappointer; pref. des- (L. dis-) + apointier, F. appointier, to appoint. See Appoint. ] 1. To defeat of expectation or hope; to hinder from the attainment of that which was expected, hoped, or desired; to balk; as, a man is disappointed of his hopes or expectations, or his hopes, desires, intentions, expectations, or plans are disappointed; a bad season disappoints the farmer of his crops; a defeat disappoints an enemy of his spoil. [ 1913 Webster ]

I was disappointed, but very agreeably. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Disappointed of a thing not obtained; disappointed in a thing obtained. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To frustrate; to fail; to hinder of result. [ 1913 Webster ]

His retiring foe
Shrinks from the wound, and disappoints the blow. Addison.

Syn. -- To tantalize; fail; frustrate; balk; baffle; delude; foil; defeat. See Tantalize. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Defeated of expectation or hope; balked; as, a disappointed person or hope. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Unprepared; unequipped. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Cut off even in the blossoms of my sin,
Unhouseled, disappointed, unaneled. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. defeating one's expectations or hopes; failing to fulfill one's expectations or hopes; as, a disappointing result; a disappointing crop yield. [ PJC ]

n. the act of disappointing someone.
Syn. -- disappointment, dashing hopes. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ Cf. F. désappointement. ] 1. The act of disappointing, or the state of being disappointed; defeat or failure of expectation or hope; miscarriage of design or plan; frustration. [ 1913 Webster ]

If we hope for things of which we have not thoroughly considered the value, our disappointment will be greater than our pleasure in the fruition of them. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

In disappointment thou canst bless. Keble. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. That which disappoints.

Syn. -- Miscarriage; frustration; balk. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ See Appreciate. ] To undervalue; not to esteem. -- Dis`ap*pre`ci*a"tion n. [1913 Webster]

n. [ Pref. dis- + approbation: cf. F. désapprobation. Cf. Disapprove. ] The act of disapproving; mental condemnation of what is judged wrong, unsuitable, or inexpedient; feeling of censure. We have ever expressed the most unqualified disapprobation of all the steps. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Containing disapprobation; serving to disapprove. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Law) Severed from the appropriation or possession of a spiritual corporation. [ 1913 Webster ]

The appropriation may be severed, and the church become disappropriate, two ways. Blackstone. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. 1. To release from individual ownership or possession. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Law) To sever from appropriation or possession a spiritual corporation. [ 1913 Webster ]

Appropriations of the several parsonages . . . would heave been, by the rules of the common law, disappropriated. Blackstone. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of disappropriating. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Disapprobation; dislike; censure; adverse judgment. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Disapproved p. pr. & vb. n. Disapproving. ] [ Pref. dis- + approve: cf. F. déapprouver. Cf. Disapprobation. ] 1. To pass unfavorable judgment upon; to condemn by an act of the judgment; to regard as wrong, unsuitable, or inexpedient; to censure; as, to disapprove the conduct of others. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To refuse official approbation to; to disallow; to decline to sanction; as, the sentence of the court-martial was disapproved by the commander in chief. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ This verb is often followed by of; as, to disapprove of an opinion, of such conduct. See Approve. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who disapproves. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. expressing disapproval. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adv. In a disapproving manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Pref. in- not + sapor. ] Tasteless; unsavory. [ R. ] Sir T. Herbert. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Gr. &unr_;. ] Having equal, or almost equal, authority with the apostles of their teachings.

n. A wrong application. Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Misapplied p. pr. & vb. n. Misapplying. ] To apply wrongly; to use for a wrong purpose; as, to misapply a name or title; to misapply public money. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Improperly appreciated. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To take in a wrong sense; to misunderstand. Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A mistaking or mistake; wrong apprehension of one's meaning of a fact; misconception; misunderstanding. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. By, or with, misapprehension. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To appropriate wrongly; to use for a wrong purpose. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. taken for one's own use in violation of a trust.
Syn. -- embezzled. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. Wrong appropriation; wrongful use. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Bot.) A reddish fleshy herb of the genus Monotropa (Monotropa hypopitys), formerly thought to be parasitic on the roots of pine trees, but more probably saprophytic. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ AS. saep; akin to OHG. saf, G. saft, Icel. safi; of uncertain origin; possibly akin to L. sapere to taste, to be wise, sapa must or new wine boiled thick. Cf. Sapid, Sapient. ] 1. The juice of plants of any kind, especially the ascending and descending juices or circulating fluid essential to nutrition. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The ascending is the crude sap, the assimilation of which takes place in the leaves, when it becomes the elaborated sap suited to the growth of the plant. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The sapwood, or alburnum, of a tree. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A simpleton; a saphead; a milksop. [ Slang ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Sap ball (Bot.), any large fungus of the genus Polyporus. See Polyporus. --
Sap green, a dull light green pigment prepared from the juice of the ripe berries of the Rhamnus catharticus, or buckthorn. It is used especially by water-color artists. --
Sap rot, the dry rot. See under Dry. --
Sap sucker (Zool.), any one of several species of small American woodpeckers of the genus Sphyrapicus, especially the yellow-bellied woodpecker (Sphyrapicus varius) of the Eastern United States. They are so named because they puncture the bark of trees and feed upon the sap. The name is loosely applied to other woodpeckers. --
Sap tube (Bot.), a vessel that conveys sap. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Sapped p. pr. & vb. n. Sapping. ] [ F. saper (cf. Sp. zapar, It. zapare), fr. sape a sort of scythe, LL. sappa a sort of mattock. ] 1. To subvert by digging or wearing away; to mine; to undermine; to destroy the foundation of. [ 1913 Webster ]

Nor safe their dwellings were, for sapped by floods,
Their houses fell upon their household gods. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Mil.) To pierce with saps. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To make unstable or infirm; to unsettle; to weaken. [ 1913 Webster ]

Ring out the grief that saps the mind. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To proceed by mining, or by secretly undermining; to execute saps. W. P. Craighill. [ 1913 Webster ]

Both assaults are carried on by sapping. Tatler. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Mil.) A narrow ditch or trench made from the foremost parallel toward the glacis or covert way of a besieged place by digging under cover of gabions, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

Sap fagot (Mil.), a fascine about three feet long, used in sapping, to close the crevices between the gabions before the parapet is made. --
Sap roller (Mil.), a large gabion, six or seven feet long, filled with fascines, which the sapper sometimes rolls along before him for protection from the fire of an enemy. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Sapodila. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) The sapajou. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. sapajou, sajou, Braz. sajuassu. ] (Zool.) Any one of several species of South American monkeys of the genus Cebus, having long and prehensile tails. Some of the species are called also capuchins. The bonnet sapajou (Cebus subcristatus), the golden-handed sapajou (Cebus chrysopus), and the white-throated sapajou (Cebus hypoleucus) are well known species. See Capuchin. [ 1913 Webster ]

[ Malay sapang. ] (Bot.) A dyewood yielded by Caesalpinia Sappan, a thorny leguminous tree of Southern Asia and the neighboring islands. It is the original Brazil wood. [ Written also sappan wood. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Abounding in sap; sappy. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A weak-minded, stupid fellow; a milksop. [ Low ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Gr. &unr_; manifest. ] (Anat.) (a) Manifest; -- applied to the two principal superficial veins of the lower limb of man. (b) Of, pertaining to, or in the region of, the saphenous veins; as, the saphenous nerves; the saphenous opening, an opening in the broad fascia of the thigh through which the internal saphenous vein passes. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. sapidus, fr. sapere to taste: cf. F. sapide. See Sapient, Savor. ] Having the power of affecting the organs of taste; possessing savor, or flavor. [ 1913 Webster ]

Camels, to make the water sapid, do raise the mud with their feet. Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. sapidité. ] The quality or state of being sapid; taste; savor; savoriness. [ 1913 Webster ]

Whether one kind of sapidity is more effective than another. M. S. Lamson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Quality of being sapid; sapidity. [ 1913 Webster ]

When the Israelites fancied the sapidness and relish of the fleshpots, they longed to taste and to return. Jer. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]