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Appearing

Appear \Ap*pear"\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Appeared; p. pr. & vb. n. Appearing.] [OE. apperen, aperen, OF. aparoir, F. apparoir, fr. L. appar?re to appear + par?reto come forth, to be visible; prob. from the same root as par?re to produce. Cf. Apparent, Parent, Peer, v. i.]

  1. To come or be in sight; to be in view; to become visible.

    And God . . . said, Let . . . the dry land appear.
    --Gen. i. 9.

  2. To come before the public; as, a great writer appeared at that time.

  3. To stand in presence of some authority, tribunal, or superior person, to answer a charge, plead a cause, or the like; to present one's self as a party or advocate before a court, or as a person to be tried.

    We must all appear before the judgment seat.
    --[hand] Cor. v. 10.

    One ruffian escaped because no prosecutor dared to appear.
    --Macaulay.

  4. To become visible to the apprehension of the mind; to be known as a subject of observation or comprehension, or as a thing proved; to be obvious or manifest.

    It doth not yet appear what we shall be.
    --1 John iii. 2.

    Of their vain contest appeared no end.
    --Milton.

  5. To seem; to have a certain semblance; to look.

    They disfigure their faces, that they may appear unto men to fast.
    --Matt. vi. 1

  6. Syn: To seem; look. See Seem.

Wiktionary
appearing

n. appearance; act of coming into view vb. (present participle of appear English)

WordNet
appearing

n. formal attendance (in court or at a hearing) of a party in an action [syn: appearance, coming into court]

Usage examples of "appearing".

They are fearsome appearing brutes at best, but when they are aroused they are fully as dangerous as they look.

It looked as if we were walking right against the towering ice wall, but when we were within a yard or two of it a narrow cleft, only eighteen inches wide, and wonderfully masked by an ice column, showed to the left, and into this we squeezed ourselves, the entrance by which we had come appearing to close up instantly we had gone a pace or two, so perfectly did the ice walls match each other.

Opposite the islet, the beach consisted first of sand, covered with black stones, which were now appearing little by little above the retreating tide.

The time thus passed away pleasantly, these brave men not appearing to have any fears for the future.

Of a hundred musmons which had been surrounded, more than two-thirds escaped, but at last, thirty of these animals and ten wild goats were gradually driven back towards the corral, the open door of which appearing to offer a means of escape, they rushed in and were prisoners.

He directly rushed to his field, where little green heads were already appearing, and by means of a great cloth, he managed to protect his crop.

The waves rebounded in dazzling foam, the beach entirely disapppearing under the raging flood, and the cliff appearing to emerge from the sea itself, the spray rising to a height of more than a hundred feet.

However, after two hours, appearing to have formed a resolution, he came to find Cyrus Harding.

The stranger worked alone, and he had resumed his usual life, never appearing at meals, sleeping under the trees in the plateau, never mingling with his companions.

Top preceded them, sometimes running on the road, sometimes taking a ramble into the wood, but always quiet and not appearing to fear anything unusual.

The silence was scarcely disturbed by the howling of jaguars and the chattering of the monkeys, the latter appearing to particularly irritate Master Jup.

He saw that he was on the highest point of the island,a statue on this vast pedestal of granite, nothing human appearing in sight, while the blue ocean beat against the base of the island, and covered it with a fringe of foam.

Baptistin left the room without waiting to answer, and in two seconds reappeared, bringing on a waiter all that his master had ordered, ready prepared, and appearing to have sprung from the ground, like the repasts which we read of in fairy tales.

He bowed to the banker, and went out with Beauchamp, without appearing to notice Cavalcanti.

The girls looked with horror upon this shameful metamorphosis, the man of the world shaking off his covering and appearing as a galley-slave.