The dialect of people from Appalachia.

The Soviet machinery of state bureaucratic administration, or a similar communistic structure.

plural of apparent brightness

(astronomy) The brightness of a star as measured by an observer, as opposed to its intrinsic brightness when corrected for distance or absorption.

(usually monarchy) Someone who will definitely inherit if surviving the one whose property is to be inherited.

(Britain) Third-person singular simple present indicative form of appal

A range of mountains in eastern North America, running northeast from Alabama in the United States to Newfoundland in Canada, variously including or excluding the Adirondack Mountains in northern New York.

plural of Appalachian

The quality of being appalling.

(anatomy, physiology, ophthalmology) The system containing the orbital structures for the production and drainage of tear.