Definition of apply

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Apply (v. t.) To make use of, declare, or pronounce, as suitable, fitting, or relative; as, to apply the testimony to the case; to apply an epithet to a person..

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Apply :: Apply (v. t.) To lay or place; to put or adjust (one thing to another); -- with to; as, to apply the hand to the breast; to apply medicaments to a diseased part of the body..
Splice :: Splice (v. t.) To unite, as spars, timbers, rails, etc., by lapping the two ends together, or by applying a piece which laps upon the two ends, and then binding, or in any way making fast..
Appliance :: Appliance (n.) The act of applying; application; [Obs.] subservience.
Administer :: Administer (v. t.) To apply, as medicine or a remedy; to give, as a dose or something beneficial or suitable. Extended to a blow, a reproof, etc..
Construe :: Construe (v. t. ) To apply the rules of syntax to (a sentence or clause) so as to exhibit the structure, arrangement, or connection of, or to discover the sense; to explain the construction of; to interpret; to translate..
Accommodate :: Accommodate (v. t.) To show the correspondence of; to apply or make suit by analogy; to adapt or fit, as teachings to accidental circumstances, statements to facts, etc.; as, to accommodate prophecy to events..
Slapdash :: Slapdash (v. t.) To apply, or apply something to, in a hasty, careless, or rough manner; to roughcast; as, to slapdash mortar or paint on a wall, or to slapdash a wall..
Suffumigation :: Suffumigate (v. t.) To apply fumes or smoke to the parts of, as to the body in medicine; to fumigate in part..
Countermark :: Countermark (v. t.) To apply a countermark to; as, to countermark silverware; to countermark a horse's teeth..
Roll :: Roll (n.) To apply (one line or surface) to another without slipping; to bring all the parts of (one line or surface) into successive contact with another, in suck manner that at every instant the parts that have been in contact are equal..
Top-dress :: Top-dress (v. t.) To apply a surface dressing of manureto,as land..
Practice :: Practice (n.) A easy and concise method of applying the rules of arithmetic to questions which occur in trade and business.
Applicatory :: Applicatory (a.) Having the property of applying; applicative; practical.
Assay :: Assay (v.) To try; to attempt; to apply.
Antinomy :: Antinomy (n.) A contradiction or incompatibility of thought or language; -- in the Kantian philosophy, such a contradiction as arises from the attempt to apply to the ideas of the reason, relations or attributes which are appropriate only to the facts or the concepts of experience..
Burn :: Burn (v. t.) To apply a cautery to; to cauterize.
Entend :: Entend (v. i.) To attend to; to apply one's self to.
Draught :: Draught (n.) A mild vesicatory; a sinapism; as, to apply draughts to the feet..
Prime :: Prime (a.) To apply priming to, as a musket or a cannon; to apply a primer to, as a metallic cartridge..
Pallet :: Pallet (n.) An instrument used to take up gold leaf from the pillow, and to apply it..
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