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appliance|əˈplaɪəns|
[f. apply v. + -ance.]
†1. Compliance, willing service; subservience.
1601Shakes. All's Well ii. i. 116, I come to tender it, and my appliance With all bound humblenesse. 1603― Meas. for M. iii. i. 89 Too noble, to conserue a life In base appliances.
2. The action of putting to, administering, using, putting into practice; application.
1561T. N[orton] Calvin's Inst., It remaineth that by applyance all the same [benefits] may come to us. 1608Shakes. Per. iii. ii. 86 An Egyptian, had nine hours lien dead, By good appliance was recovered. 1831Carlyle Sart. Res. ii. iii, The human soul..could be acted-on through the muscular integument by the appliance of birch-rods. 1851Longfellow Gold. Leg. i. xx, Have you done this, by the appliance and aid of doctors? 1868G. Macdonald Eng. Antiphon xviii. 264 He becomes either a man of appliance, a man of science, a mystic, or a poet.
3. a. A thing applied as means to an end; apparatus.
1597Shakes. 2 Hen. IV, iii. i. 20 With all appliances and meanes to boote. 1613― Hen. VIII, i. i. 124 Aske God for Temp'rance; that's th' appliance onely which your disease requires. 1861Stanley East. Ch. ii. Introd. 60 All the appliances of antiquarian and artistic knowledge. 1876Fawcett Pol. Econ. ii. viii. 231 To avail themselves of improved mechanical appliances.
b. spec. A fire-engine.
1899Daily News 10 May 7/2 The driver..and one of the firemen on the ‘manual’ were injured, and the appliance sustained some damage. 1958Listener 14 Aug. 247/3 The fire-engines (‘appliances’ to the Service) tore off into the night. |