Emily Dickinson Lexicon

AP-PEAL', n.

1. The removal of a cause or suit from an inferior to a superior tribunal, as from a common pleas court to a superior or supreme court. Also, the right of appeal.
2. An accusation; a process instituted by a private person against a man for some hainous crime by which he has been injured, as for murder, larceny, mayhem. – Blackstone.
3. A summons to answer to a charge. – Dryden.
4. A call upon a person; a reference to another for proof or decision. In an oath, a person makes an appeal to the Deity for the truth of his declaration.
5. Resort; recourse. Every milder method is to be tried, before a nation makes an appeal to arms. – Kent.