ARANEIFORM-ARBITRAL. BRAVIFORM, a-ray-ne'e-fawrm, a. (aranea, a spider, jirna, a shape, Lat.) An epithet given by rite those hexopod carnivorous larvæ, which are the mandibles long and fitted for suction, and cm retrograde motions; in which respects they the Arachnides. RANEIFORMIA, a-ray-ne-e-fawr'me-a, 8. A name by Bisinville to a family of the Heteropoda, from the periar spider-like form of the animals which constitute it. Ear-a-go-a'se-e, s. (In honour of M. Ang the celebrated French astronomer.) A cal arder of exogenons plants, class Corollitre. It consists of the single genus Arago; sp and beautiful shrubs, natives of the wis of Santa Fe de Bogota, in New Gra The leaves are small, coriaceous, and imbried in eight rows; the flowers are small, tubuor salver-shaped, axillary, solitary, nearly ware, and white. ATANEOSA-URINA, a-ray-ne-o'sa-u're-na, s. (Latin.) | Ate applied to urine, when it contains filaments ing those of a spider's web. ALANCE, a-ray-ne-o'sus, a. Applied to a body red with hairs, crossing each other like the an of a cobweb. ARASECUs, a-ra'ne-us, a. (aranea, a spider, Lat.) Being a cobweb. ARANGOES, &-ran'goze, s. Large beads formed from lian, formerly much used in the African une-trade ARBITRAMENT-ARBORATOR. ARBITRAMENT, ǎr-bit'tra-ment, s. Will; determination; choice. NOTE.-Dr. Johnson says this word should be written arbitrement. Milton spells it so in these lines:Stand fast! to stand or fall, Free in thine own arbitrement it lies. ARBITRARILY, ár'be-tra-re-le, ad. With no other rule than the will; despotically; absolutely. ARBITRARINESS, ǎr'be-trar-e-nes, s. Despoticalness; tyranny. ARATORY, & ra'to-re, a. Contributing to tillage. ABANCARIA a-raw-ka're-a, s. (Araucaros, a tribe of Indians in the southern parts of Chili.) A genus ARBITRARIOUS, ur-be-tra're-us, a. (arbitrarius, Lat.) Arbitrary; depending on the will; despotic. ArbiARBITRARIOUSLY, år-be-traʼre-us-le, ad. trarily; according to mere will and pleasure. ARBITRARY, ǎr'be-tra-re, a. (arbitrarius, Lat.) Despotic; absolute; bound by no law; following the will without restraint; depending on no rule; capricious; held at will or pleasure; voluntary, or left to our choice. ARBITRATE, ăr'be-trate, v. a. (arbitror, Lat.) To decide; to determine; to judge of;-v. n. to give judgment. tie firs, with very rigid branches, and ascaly, pointed, or stiff, spreading or lane. The cones contain large seeds. Araucarias fund fossil in the coal formation. At present they are confined to a few species, inhabiting the whern hemisphere. ALALJEA, a-raw'je-a, 8. (after Antonia de Araujo.) As of twining herbaceous plants, with white faw, natives of Brazil: Order, Asclepiades. ARBALIST, ár ba-list, 8. (arcus, a bow, and balista, e for shooting darts with, Lat.) A cross It is reported by William Breto, that the arcubalista, was first showed to the French by our King d the First, who was shortly after slain by a yarred thereof.-Camden, AFBALISTERS, dr-ba-lis'turz, s. pl. A name given to the sldiers who, in ancient times, were armed wah crossbows. Smith It did arbitrate upon the several reports of sense.The determinaARBITRATION, ǎr-be-tra'shun, s. tion of a cause by a judge mutually agreed on by the parties contending; decision. In Law, a contract by which two or more parties engaged in a dispute agree, by an instrument called a submission, to leave the decision to a third party, called an arbiter or arbitrator. The proper objects of arbitration are those as to questions of fact. A debt defined by a deed is not a proper subject. When there are more than one arbiter, there is generally authority given to choose an umpire when they cannot mutually come to a decision. If the submission contain a clause of registration, the decree-arbitral can be enforced as if it were a decree of court. To award to a thing that is illegal, or that cannot be done by the parties, is void, otherwise the courts will not relieve a person who has voluntarily submitted his case to arbitration, from the consequences of the decision, except where corruption or mistake is proved. Arbitration of Exchange, in Commerce, is the deduction of a proportion or arbitrated rate of exchange, between two places through an intermediate place, in order to ascertain the best method of drawing or remitting. ARBITRATOR, ŭr-be-tra'tur, s. An extraordinary judge between party and party, chosen by mutual consent; a governor; a president; one who has the power of prescribing to others in a despotic manner, or of acting entirely by his own choice; the determiner. AZBITER, ár'be-tur, s. (Latin.) An umpire; a . The end crowns all, And that old common arbitrator Time, Will one day end it.-Shaks. ARBITRESS, ǎr'be-tres, ARBITRATRIX, d-be-tra'triks, judge. 8. (arbitratrix, Lat.) A female the law, while an arbitrator is permitted to use his ARBITREMENT, år-bit're-ment, s. Decision; deter own discretion in accommodating differences. Next him, high arbiter, Chance governs all-Milton. -.. to judge. We now use arbitrate. ARBITRABLE, dr be-tra-bl, a. trary depending upon the will; determinable. ARBITRAL, ar be-tral,.a. Belonging to arbitration. N ARBOR-CHUCK-ARBUSTIVE. ARBOR-CHUCK, ár'bor-tshuk, s. In Mechanics, a chuck, consisting merely of a spindle, generally made of metal, projecting fror: the mandril of the lathe, used in turning and polishing rings, hollow cylinders, &c. ARBOR DIANE, ǎr'bor di'an-e, s. (Latin.) The tree of Diana. A name given to a beautiful arborescent arrangement which takes place in a vessel containing a solution of the nitrate of silver when mercury is thrown into it. A very good proportion for the experiment is twenty grains of lunar caustic to six drams or one ounce of water. It has also been termed Arbor philosophorum and Arbor mineralis philosophica. ARBORECULTURE, ár-bor-e-kul'ture, s. (arbor, and colo, I cultivate, Lat.) The art of cultivating trees and shrubs for wood or ornamental purposes. ARBOREOUS, år-bo're-us, a. (arboreus, Lat.) Belonging to trees; constituting a tree, as distinguished from fruitescent. ARBORESCENT, ur-bo-res'sent, a. (arborescens, Lat.) Growing like a tree; having a tendency to become A naturalist who makes trees a particular object of his study. ARBORIZATION, ar-bo-re-za'shun, s. In Mineralogy, a term applied to an arborescent aggregation of crystals; also, to the dentritic form, pre The sented in certain schistose limestones, or other rocks, due to the infiltration of the oxide of iron or manganese into the lamina of the stone. same appearance is often observable in agates. ARBOROUS, ar'bo-rus, a. Belonging to a tree. ARBOR SATURNI, ar'bor sa'tur-ni, s. (Latin.) The tree of Saturn. A peculiar arborescent arrangement, obtained by dissolving one part of the protoxide of lead in twenty-four of water, and suspending a piece of zinc in the solution by means of a thread. ARBOR SCIENTIE, ar bor si'en-she-e, s. (Latin.) trees. a seat shaded with ARBUSCULAR, ǎr-bus'ku-lar, a. Composed of sinall trees or shrubs. ARBUSTIVE, ar-bus'tive, a. Covered with, or containing shrubs. ARBUTE-ARCADIAN. ARBUTE, ar' bute, s. (arbutus, Lat.) The stra ARBUTUS, ar'bu-tus,) berry tree, a genus of plan having fruit resembling that of the strawberi The arbutus is a native of the Levant and t south of Europe. In our gardens, it is a har evergreen tree, with greenish yellow blossom and red or bright yellow berries. The arbuti forms groves of great beauty at the lakes of Ki larney in Ireland: Order, Ericer. ARBUTEAN, ar-bu'te-an, a. Made or composed arbute. Arbutean harrows, and the mystie van. Evelyn's Virgil. ARC, ark, s. (arcus, Lat.) In Geometry, a segmen or part of a circle. Every arch is greater tha! its chord, but when concave to the chord through out, is less than the sum of the sides of any rec tilinear figure which contains it. If x and y be the co-ordinates of any point in a curve, the common method of finding the arch is by the integration of the formula √ded, or, in the language of the fluxional calculus, fluent of x2 + y2; -an arch. Load some old church with old theatric state, Turn ares of triumph to a garden gate.-Pope. Equal ares are those which contain the same number of degrees, and whose radii are equal. Diurnal are, in Astronomy, is that part of a circle described by a celestial body, between its rising and setting, as the nocturnal arch is that described between its setting and rising. Arch of progression or direction, an are of the Zodiac which a planet appears to pass over when its motion is according to the signs. ARCA, r'ka, s. (arca, an ark or chest, Lat.) The Arks, a genus of bivalved Mollusca, the shells of which are transverse, and nearly equal in their valves; the hinge is straight, and formed by numerous teeth set in a row, the teeth of the one valve being inserted between those of the other; ARCA-CORDIS, ar ka-kawr'dis, s. (Latin.) The the ligament is external. pericardium. ARCADE, ar ka-de, s. In Malacology, a family of marine Mollusca, placed by Swainson between the unios and the muscles. The hinge of the shells is furnished with numerous small welldefined teeth, without any distinction of cardinal and lateral umbones generally remote, mostly covered with an epidermis. It includes the genera Arca, Nucula, Pentunculus, Byssoarca, and Trigonia. ARCADE, ur-kade', s. (French.) A series of arches, Which led the rural life in all its joy ARCADY-ARCHAISM. icant, dr'ks-de, s. The country of Arcadia. Have I been disobedient to thy words? lacases, ár-ka'nun, s. ARCANA, ǎr-kaʼna, pl. inex, értsh, s. (arcus, Lat.) In Mathematics, pt of a circle, now written arc.-Which see. In Architecture, any solid work, whether masonry otherwise, of which the lower part is formed into an arc of a curve, supported at the two ties. The pedestals upon which an arch ts, are called its piers; the portion of the pedestal from which the arch is said to spring, termed the flanks; the lower tier of the archis called the intrados or soffit; the upper, the extrados or back; the archstones are termed rs, and the highest stone the keystone, the top of which is termed the crown; a perpendare from the crown to a horizontal line ping from the top of the one pier to that of the other, is the height, and the horizontal line it is the pan of the arch;-the sky or vault of heaven;-. a, to build arches; to form into ; to cover with an arch or arches. The nations of the field and wood Build on the wave, or arch beneath the sand.— Pope. The tyrannoes and bloody act is done, rs as a compound:-Archangel, archangelic, pounced drk-anegel, drk-an-gel'ik. In the followBack is pronounced artsh-Archapostle, archarchitect, archbeacon, archbishop, archbishopric, bother, archbuilder, archchanter, archchemic, archenspirator, archeritic, archdeacon, archdeaconarchdeaconship, archdivine, archdruid, archducal, chess, archduke, archdukedom, archenemy, addon, archfiend, archflamen, (chief priest,) archflatterer, archfounder, archgovernor, archheresy, tor, archphilosopher, archpillar, archpoet, archpoliart, archhypocrite, archmagician, archpas , archprelate, archpresbyter, archpresbytery, ent, archprimate, archprophet, archprotestant, publican, archrebel, archtraitor, archtreasurer, artyrant, archvillain, archvillany. ABCH, Triumphal, ártsh, tri-umfʼal, s. gate, of a semicircular form, adorned with sculp A stately tare, &c., erected in honour of those who had deserved a triumph. ARCH-WIFE, ärtsh-wife, s. A woman in the higher ranks of life.-Obsolete. ARCHEOLOGY, ár-kay-ol'o-je, s. (archéologie, Fr. ARCHALOLOGY,) archaice, ancient, and logos, a disparse, Gr.) That branch of knowledge which refers to antiquity; a discourse on antiquity. ARCHEOLOGICAL, ár-ke-o-loj e-kal, ARCHATOLOGIST, ár-kay-ol ́o-jist, s. An antiquary. | ARCHAIOLOGIC, dr-kay-o-loj ̋ik, } I elegy. ARCHANGEL-ARCHIL. ARCHANGEL. In Botany.-See Lamium. ARCHEMORA, ŭr-ke-moʻra, s. (Archemorus, the son ARCHER, ǎrtsh'ur, s. One who uses the bow and arrow. ARCHERESS, ǎrtsh'ur-es, s. A female who shoots with a bow and arrow. ARCHERS, ǎrtsh'urz, s. Those who, in former times, made use of the bow in battle or in the chase; a name still kept up by a body, denominated the Royal Archers, in Edinburgh, and by certain bodies in England, who continue to practise archery. ARCHERY, ǎr'tshur-e, 8. The use of the bow and arrow; the act of shooting with the bow and arrow. Flower of this purple dye, Sink in the apple of his eye.-Shaks. ARCHES-COURT, ǎrtsh ́ez-corte, 8. The supreme court of appeal in the archbishopric of Canterbury. The name is derived from its being formerly held in the church of St. Mary-le-Bow, (de Arcubus,) from which place it was removed to the common hall in Doctors' Commons, where it is now held. ARCHETYPAL, ár'ke-ti-pal, a. Original; the pattern from which a copy is made. ARCHETYPE, ǎr'ke-tipe, s. (archetypum, Lat.) The original of which any resemblance is made. In the Mint, the standard weight by which the others are adjusted. The archetypal world, among Platonists, means the world as it existed in the idea of God, before the visible creation. ARCHEUS, ǎr'ke-us, s. (archos, Gr.) A word used by Paracelsus, by which he seems to have meant a power presiding over the animal body distinct from the soul. ARCHIATOR, ár-ki'a-tur, s. (archos, and iatros, a physician, Gr. archiatre, Fr.) A chief physician. -Old word. ARCHICAL, ürk'e-kal, a. Chief; primary. a. Relating ARCHIDIACONAL, ǎr-ke-di-ak'on-al, a. Belonging to archæ- to an archdeacon. ARCHAISM, drkay-izm, 8. An antiquated word or objectionable, occasionally adds to the beauty and force of a sentence. ARCHIEPISCOPACY, ár-ki-e-pis'ko-pa-se, s. The ARCHIEPISCOPAL, ur-ki-e pis'ko-pal, a. (archiepis copus, Lat.) Belonging to an archbishop. ARCHIL, ar'kil, s. A violet-red paste used as a dye ARCHILOCHIAN-ARCHITECTRESS. ARCHITECTURAL-ARCHONTICS. architecture. stuff: the best kind of which is obtained from | ARCHITECTURAL, ùr-ke-tek ́tu-ral, a. Relating the lichen Roccella tinctoria, found in the Canary Islands, the Azores, Sardinia, Sweden, &c. When a mixture of carbonate of potash and ammonia is used in the preparation, and chalk, &c. is added, the colour becomes more blue, and is then called Litmus. Cudbear is another modification of archil, prepared from Lecanora tartarea, and Parmelia omphalodes, two species found on rocks on the western coast of England, and other places. An addition of tin renders the dye durable, and gives a scarlet colour. It is commonly used to give a bloom to pinks and other colours.-See Orceine. ARCHILOCHIAN, ár-ke-lok 'e-an, s. (Archilochus, the inventor.) A verse in metrical composition, consisting of seven feet; the four first are dactyls or spondees, and the three last trochees. Ex.Soltiturãcris hy||ēms grā||dā rīcē|| vērù|| ¿í Fò còní. -Horace. ARCHILUTE, r'ke-lute, s. A large lute, having by the old alchemists to the subtlest part of their ARCHIMIA, ar-kim'me-a. 8. That branch of ARCHITECT, ár ́ke-tekt, s. (archos, and tekton, arti- ARCHITECTURE, ǎr-ke-tek'ture, s. (archetectu A re pository or closet used for the preservation of ARCHIVIST, ur'ke-vist, s. The keeper of archives. ARCHON, ar kon, s. (Greek.) The chief magistrate Chief architect and plotter of these woes.-Shaks. ARCHITECTIVE, dr-ke-tek'tiv, a. Performing the work of architecture. ARCHITECTONIC, ár-ke-tek-ton'nik, We might establish a doge, a lord, archon, or regent. ARCHITECTONICAL, úr-ke-tek-ton'ne-kal, ing skill-Bolingbroke on Parties. to build. ARCHONSHIP, år kon-ship, s. The office of an archon. ) s. Hav ARCHITECTONICS, år-ke-tek-ton'niks, s. pl. The ARCHITECTOR, ȧr-ke-tek'tur, 8. An architect.- ARCHITECTRESS, dr-ke-tek'tres, s. Feminine of Nature herself, the first architectress, to use an expression of Vitruvius, windowed your breast.-Woiton, ARCHONTICS, ar-kon'tiks, 8. In Ecclesiastical History, a branch of Valentians which sprung up towards the close of the second century. They supposed the world to have been created (apo ton archon) by the archontes, (archangels,) but with a singular want of gallantry, they ascribed the creation of women to the agency of devils. ACIC SETA Listris parisiticus.-See Listris. te a genus of Marsupial animals, consisting Anctuarys, drk'to-mis, s. (arktos, and mys, a rat, Gry The Marmot or Bear-rat, a genus of Rodents. The marmots are heavy in make, with short legs; -zed, short bushy tail, and a large flat head. They pass the winter in a state of torpor, in deep holes. They live in societies, and are endly tamed. ARTOWYX. drk'to-niks, 8. (arktos, and onyx, a claw, The Pig-bear. A genus of omnivorous Fachyderms, having the appearance of a bear with the head of a pig. ARCTOSTAPHYLOS, ark-to-staffe-los, s. (arktos, and style, a grape. Gr.) A genus of plants ating of two British species; the Arbutus and Arbutus alpina of Linnæus; calyx and five-parted; corolla ovate, with a small £ve ceft revolute limb; stamens ten; anthers without pores; berry smooth; seeds solitary. ABCTOTHECA, drk-to-thek's, 8. (arktos, and theke, ARCUBALISTA—ARE. arcus, a bow, Lat. and ballo, I throw, Gr.) A crossbow; an instrument to throw stones. ARCUBALISTA, ǎr-ku-ba-lis'ta, s. A crossbow. A term which has been contracted both into Balista and Arbalist. ARCUBALISTER, år-ku-ba-lis'tur, s. A crossbow man. ARCUS SENILIS, 8. (arcus, a bow, and senilis, old cale, Gr. from its shaggy seeds.) A genus fposite plants: Sub-order, Heliantheæ. ABCTURA, drk tu-ra, &. In Surgery, inflammation of a fager or toe, from the curvature of the nail. ABCTURUS, árk tu-rus, 8, (arktos, and oura, tail, Gr.) A fixed star castellation of Aretophylax or Bootes. the first magnitude, in the ABCATE, dr ku-ate, a. (arcuatus, Lat.) Bent in the form of an arch;-v. a. to bend like an arch. ARCTATILE dr-ku'a-tile, Beat; inflected. a. (arcuatilis, Lat.) ACCATION, dr-kn-a'shun, 8. The act of bending ARDASSINES, ǎr-das'se-nes, s. A very fine sort of Persian silk; the finest used in the looms of France. ARDEA, ăr'de-a, s. (Latin.) The Heron. A genus of large wading birds, bill very strong-long, straight, conic, margins serrated; the gonys long and descending; scapular feathers long and linear; legs long; thighs naked to a considerable distance from the knee. They live on small fish; but eat any animal matter, such as naked or even shelled molluscs, the spawn of fish, worms, &c. They build on trees. ARDEADÆ, ar-de-a'de, s. A name given by Swain son to a family of the Grallatores or Waders, including the Herons and Cranes. The birds of this family are large, with long, conic, straight, hard, compressed bills; the hind toe placed on the same level as others. ARDENCY, ar'den-se, 8. (ardens, burning, ARDENTNESS, år'dent-nes, Lat.) Ardour; eager ness; warmth of affection; heat. ARDENT, ǎr'dent, a. (ardeus, Lat.) Hot; burning; fiery; fierce; vehement; having the appearance or quality of fire; passionate; affectionate-used generally of desire. ARDENTLY, ǎr'dent-le, ad. In an ardent manner; eagerly; affectionately. ARDISIA, är-dish ́e-a, s. (ardis, a point, Gr. in reference to its acute spearlike anthers.) A genus of exotic trees or shrubs: Order, Myrsineaceæ. ARDISIEÆ, ǎr-de-si-e ́e, s. A tribe of plants, having Ardesia for its type; calyx, four or five-lobed; corolla gamopetalous; stamens usually free; cells of anthers bursting lengthways at the apex; ovarium free and many-seeded; drupe or berry, one-seeded; albumen horny; embryo transverse : Order, Myrsineaceae (Myrrh plants). ARDOUR, ǎr'dur, s. (ardor, Lat.) Heat; heat of Nor long delayed the winged saint ARDUINA, ǎr-du-in'a, s. (in honour of P. Arduina.) ything; incurvation; the state of being bent; ARDUOUS, ăr'du-us, a. (arduus, Lat.) Lofty; hard curity or crookedness. In Gardening, the me raised from seeds, or which do not bear seed. Surgery, a distortion or incurvation of the bones. ARCCATURE, dr'ku-a-ture, s. In The curvature of an ABCUBALIST, &'ku-ba-list, s. (arcubalista, from to climb; difficult; laborious. ARDUOUSNESS, är du-us-nes, 8.Height; difficulty, laboriousness. ARE, år. The third person plural of the present tense of the verb to be;-s. a French measure of surface, equal to nearly 2 acres English, or 1176 1-4th square feet. |