Apparel - APPAR'EL, n. [L. paro, apparo, to prepare; Heb. bara]
1. Clothing; vesture; garments; dress.
2. External habiliments or decorations; appearance; as, religion appears in the natural apparel of simplicity.
Glorious in apparel. Isa 63.
3. The furniture of a ship, as sails, rigging, anchors, &c.
APPAR'EL, v.t.
1. To dress or clothe.
They who are gorgeously appareled are in kings court.
Luke 7.
2. To adorn with dress.
She did apparel her apparel.
3. To dress with external ornaments; to cover with something ornamental; to cover, as with garments; as, trees appareled with flowers; or a garden with verdure.
4. To furnish with external apparatus; as ships appareled for sea.
Appear - APPE'AR, v.i. [L. appareo, of ad and pareo, to appear, or be manifest.]
1. To come or be in sight; to be in view; to be visible.
The leprosy appeareth in the skin of the flesh. Lev 13.
And God said, Let the dry land appear. Gen 1.
2. To become visible to the eye, as a spirit, or to the apprehension of the mind; a sense frequent in scripture.
The Lord appeared to Abram, and said. Gen 12.
The angel of the Lord appeared to him in a flame of fire out of the midst of the bush. Exo 3.
3. To stand in presence of, as parties or advocates before a court, or as persons to be tried. The defendant, being called, did not appear.
We must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ. 2 Cor 5.
4. To be obvious; to be known, as a subject of observation or comprehension.
Let thy work appear to thy servant. Psa 90.
It doth not yet appear what we shall be. 1 John 3.
5. To be clear or made clear by evidence; as, this fact appears by ancient records.
But sin that it might appear sin. Rom 7.
6. To seem, in opposition to reality.
They disfigure their faces, that they may appear to men to fast. Mat 6.
7. To be discovered, or laid open.
That they shame may appear. Jer 13.
APPE'AR, n. Appearance. Obs.
Aquaint - ACQUA'INT, v.t. [Eng. can, and ken; which see.]
1. To make known; to make fully or intimately known; to make familiar.
A man of sorrows and acquainted with grief. Isa 53.
2. To inform; to communicate notice to; as a friend in the country acquaints me with his success. Of before the object, as to acquaint a man of this design, has been used, but is obsolete or improper.
3. To acquaint one's self, is to gain an intimate or particular knowledge of.
Acquaint now thyself with him and be at peace. Job 22.
Arm - 'ARM, n. [L. armus, an arm, a shoulder, a wing; armus is directly from the Gr. a joint, it would seem to be formed from Gr. to fit.]
1. The limb of the human body, which extends from the shoulder to the hand.
2. The branch of a tree, or the slender part of a machine, projecting from a trunk or axis. The limbs of animals are also sometimes called arms.
3. A narrow inlet of water from the sea.
4. Figuratively, power, might, strength; as the secular arm. In this sense the word is often used in the scriptures.
To whom is the arm of the Lord revealed. Isa 53.
'ARM, v.t. [L. armo; arma.]
1. To furnish or equip with weapons of offense, or defense; as, to arm the militia.
2. To cover with a plate, or with whatever will add strength, force, or security; as, to arm the hilt of a sword.
3. To furnish with means of defense; to prepare for resistance; to fortify.
Arm yourselves with the same mind. 1 Pet 4.
'ARM, v.i. To provide with arms, weapons, or means of attack or resistance; to take arms; as, the nations arm for war.
This verb is not really intransitive in this use, but reciprocal, the pronoun being omitted. The nations arm - for, the nations arm themselves.
Army - 'ARMY, n.
1. A collection or body of men armed for war, and organized in companies, battalions, regiments, brigades and divisions, under proper officers. In general, an army in modern times consists of infantry and cavalry, with artillery; although the union of all is not essential to the constitution of an army. Among savages, armies are differently formed.
2. A great number; a vast multitude; as an army of locusts or caterpillars. Joel 2:25.