Of or pertaining to an archduke or archduchy.

The consort of an archduke; also, a princess of the imperial family of Austria. See Archduke.

The territory of an archduke or archduchess.

A prince of the imperial family of Austria.

An archduchy.

The origination of living matter from non-living. See Abiogenesis.

Made with an arch or curve; covered with an arch; as, an arched door.

Relating to the archegonium.

of or pertaining to an archegonium.

The pistillidium or female organ in the higher cryptogamic plants, corresponding to the pistil in flowering plants.

Spontaneous generation; abiogenesis.

The science of, or a treatise on, first principles.

The division that includes man alone.

A principal enemy. Specifically, Satan, the grand adversary of mankind.

Relating to the archenteron; as, archenteric invagination.

The primitive enteron or undifferentiated digestive sac of a gastrula or other embryo. See Illust. under Invagination.

of or pertaining to archeology.

the branch of anthropology that studies prehistoric people and their cultures. Same as Arch/ology, etc.

an anthropologist who studies prehistoric people and their culture.

an extinct primitive toothed bird (Archaeopteryx lithographica) of the Upper Jurassic having a long feathered tail and hollow bones; usually considered the most primitive of all known birds. Same as archaeopteryx.

same as archaeozoic.

the time from 1.5 billion to 5 billion years ago, when the earth's crust was formed; the time when only unicellular organisms and the earliest forms of life are present. Same as Archaeozoic.

of or pertaining to an archbishop.

A bowman, one skilled in the use of the bow and arrow.

A female archer.

The art or skill of an archer.

The use of the bow and arrows in battle, hunting, etc.; the art, practice, or skill of shooting with a bow and arrows.

pl. of Arch, n.

same as archesporium.

of or pertaining to an archespore.

a primitive cell or group of cells from which a mother cell develops.

Of or pertaining to an archetype; consisting a model (real or ideal) or pattern; original.

With reference to the archetype; originally. /Parts archetypally distinct./

The original pattern or model of a work; or the model from which a thing is made or formed.

Relating to an archetype; archetypal.

The vital principle or force which (according to the Paracelsians) presides over the growth and continuation of living beings; the anima mundi or plastic power of the old philosophers.

A group of Annelida remarkable for having no external segments or distinct ventral nerve ganglions.

Chief physician; -- a term applied, on the continent of Europe, to the first or body physician of princes and to the first physician of some cities.

A hollow blastula, supposed to be the primitive form; a c/loblastula.

Chief; primary; primordial.

Of or pertaining to an archdeacon.

That form of episcopacy in which the chief power is in the hands of archbishops.

Of or pertaining to an archbishop; as, Canterbury is an archiepiscopal see.

The station or dignity of an archbishop; archiepiscopacy.

The office of an archbishop; an archbishopric.

The higher order of clergy in Russia, including metropolitans, archbishops, and bishops.

A violet dye obtained from several species of lichen (Roccella tinctoria, etc.), which grow on maritime rocks in the Canary and Cape Verd Islands, etc.

Of or pertaining to the satiric Greek poet Archilochus; as, Archilochian meter.

A large theorbo, or double-necked lute, formerly in use, having the bass strings doubled with an octave, and the higher strings with a unison.

The high priest of the Persian Magi, or worshipers of fire.

A chief of a monastery, corresponding to abbot in the Roman Catholic church. A superintendent of several monasteries, corresponding to superior abbot, or father provincial, in the Roman Catholic church.

Of or pertaining to Archimedes, a celebrated Greek philosopher; constructed on the principle of Archimedes' screw; as, Archimedean drill, propeller, etc.

An extinct genus of Bryzoa characteristic of the subcarboniferous rocks. Its form is that of a screw.

The arched part of a structure.

the olfactory cortex of the cerebrum.

Of or pertaining to an archipelago.

The primitive form of fin, like that of Ceratodus.

A person skilled in the art of building; one who understands architecture, or makes it his occupation to form plans and designs of buildings, and to superintend the artificers employed.

Used in building; proper for building.

The science of architecture.

The science of architecture.

An architect.

A female architect.

Of or pertaining to the art of building; conformed to the rules of architecture.

The art or science of building; especially, the art of building houses, churches, bridges, and other structures, for the purposes of civil life; -- often called civil architecture.

A genus of gigantic cephalopods, allied to the squids, found esp. in the North Atlantic and about New Zealand.

The lower division of an entablature, or that part which rests immediately on the column, esp. in classical architecture. See Column. The group of moldings, or other architectural member, above and on both sides of a door or other opening, especially if square in form.

Furnished with an architrave.

Pertaining to, or contained in, archives or records.

The place in which public records or historic documents are kept.

a collection of records especially about an institution.

A keeper of archives or records.

The architectural member surrounding the curved opening of an arch, corresponding to the architrave in the case of a square opening. More commonly, the molding or other ornaments with which the wall face of the voussoirs of an arch is charged.

In an arch manner; with attractive slyness or roguishness; slyly; waggishly.

The grand marshal of the old German empire, a dignity that to the Elector of Saxony.

The quality of being arch; cleverness; sly humor free from malice; waggishness.

One of the chief magistrates in ancient Athens, especially, by pre/minence, the first of the nine chief magistrates.

The office of an archon.

An archon's term of office.

The group including man alone.

The substance from which attraction spheres develop in mitotic cell division, and of which they consist.

An archbishop or other chief prelate.

Same as Archpriest.

The absolute dominion of presbytery.

A chief priest; also, a kind of vicar, or a rural dean.

The chief primate.

A chief or transcendent traitor.

A chief treasurer. Specifically, the great treasurer of the German empire.

A way or passage under an arch.

A big, masculine wife.

Arch-shaped.

Arched; as, archy brows.

Having the form of an arch; curved.

An instrument for drawing a circular arc without the use of a central point; a cyclograph.

Constriction or contraction of some natural passage, as in constipation from inflammation.

The arctic circle.

a stout-bodied broad-winged moth with conspicuously striped or spotted wings; larvae are hairy caterpillars.

a family comprising the tiger moths.

A group of Arachnida. See Illust. in Appendix.

the burdock.

a genus of fur seals.

Of or pertaining to arctic lands; as, the arctogeal fauna.

A group of the Carnivora, that includes the bears, weasels, etc.

a genus of plants including the bearberry; manzanita.

a genus of herbs and subshrubs: African daisy.

A fixed star of the first magnitude in the constellation Bo/tes.

Of or pertaining to an arc.

Bent or curved in the form of a bow.

In the form of a bow.

The act of bending or curving; incurvation; the state of being bent; crookedness.

A crossbow.

A crossbowman; one who used the arcubalist.

See Arquebus.

A very fine sort of Persian silk.

a familu of wading birds incuding the herons, egrets, night herons, and bitterns.

Heat.

a wooded plateau in the Champagne-Ardenne region of France; the site of intense fighting in World Wars I and II.

Hot or burning; causing a sensation of burning; fiery; as, ardent spirits, that is, distilled liquors; an ardent fever.

any type of strongly alcoholic beverage prepared by distillation of an alcohol-containing fermented material.

In an ardent manner; eagerly; with warmth; affectionately; passionately.