Apron: Definition and part of speech

Apron

n. The infolded abdomen of a crab.
n. An article of dress, of cloth, leather, or other stuff, worn on the fore part of the body, to keep the clothes clean, to defend them from injury, or as a covering. It is commonly tied at the waist by strings.
n. Something which by its shape or use suggests an apron;
n. The fat skin covering the belly of a goose or duck.
n. A piece of leather, or other material, to be spread before a person riding on an outside seat of a vehicle, to defend him from the rain, snow, or dust; a boot.
n. A leaden plate that covers the vent of a cannon.
n. A piece of carved timber, just above the foremost end of the keel.
n. A platform, or flooring of plank, at the entrance of a dock, against which the dock gates are shut.
n. A flooring of plank before a dam to cause the water to make a gradual descent.
n. The piece that holds the cutting tool of a planer.
1n. 1 The infolded abdomen of a crab.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

a. & adv. By the way; to the purpose; suitably to the place or subject; — a word used to introduce an incidental observation, suited to the occasion, though not strictly belonging to the narration.
a. & adv. Opportunely or opportune; seasonably or seasonable.

n. A reliquary, or case in which the relics of saints were kept.
n. A projecting part of a building, esp. of a church, having in the plan a polygonal or semicircular termination, and, most often, projecting from the east end. In early churches the Eastern apse was occupied by seats for the bishop and clergy.
n. The bishop’s seat or throne, in ancient churches.

a. Of or pertaining to the apse of a church; as, the apsidal termination of the chancel.
a. Of or pertaining to the apsides of an orbit.