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.

Pertaining to a master builder, or to architecture; evincing skill in designing or construction; constructive.

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.

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.

Ardency.

Heat, in a literal sense; as, the ardor of the sun's rays.

Steep and lofty, in a literal sense; hard to climb.

In an arduous manner; with difficulty or laboriousness.

The quality of being arduous; difficulty of execution.

Burning; ardent.

The unit of superficial measure, being a square of which each side is ten meters in length; 100 square meters, or about 119.6 square yards.

Any plane surface, as of the floor of a room or church, or of the ground within an inclosure; an open space in a building.

Of or pertaining to an area; as, areal interstices (the areas or spaces inclosed by the reticulate vessels of leaves).

Backward; in or to the rear; behindhand.

A genus of palms, one species of which (Areca catechu) produces the areca nut, or betel nut, which is chewed in India and Southeast Asia with the leaf of the Piper Betle and lime.

one of four subclasses or superorder of Monocotyledones; comprises about 6400 species in 5 families of trees and shrubs and terrestrial herbs and a few free-floating aquatics including: Palmae; Araceae; Pandanaceae: and Lemnaceae.

To tell, declare, explain, or interpret; to divine; to guess; as, to aread a riddle or a dream.

In a reeking condition.

The act of drying, or the state of growing dry.

To dry, or make dry.

The area in the central part of an amphitheater, in which the gladiators fought and other shows were exhibited; -- so called because it was covered with sand.

Sandy or consisting largely of sand; of the nature of sand; easily disintegrating into sand; friable; as, arenaceous limestone.

Sandy; as, arenarious soil.

A sand bath; application of hot sand to the body.

In some provinces of Russia, one who farms the rents or revenues.

A palm tree (Saguerus saccharifer) which furnishes sago, wine, and fibers for ropes; the gomuti palm.

An ancient wormhole in sand, preserved in the rocks.

growing or living or burrowing in sand.

Of or pertaining to sandstone; as, arenilitic mountains.

Sandy; full of sand.

Full of fine sand; like sand.

An interstice or small space, as between the cracks of the surface in certain crustaceous lichens; or as between the fibers composing organs or vessels that interlace; or as between the nervures of an insect's wing.

Pertaining to, or like, an areola; filled with interstices or areol/.

Divided into small spaces or areolations, as the wings of insects, the leaves of plants, or the receptacle of compound flowers.

Division into areol/.

Same as Areola.

A small inclosed area; esp. one of the small spaces on the wings of insects, circumscribed by the veins.

An instrument for measuring the specific gravity of fluids; a form hydrometer.

Pertaining to, or measured by, an areometer.

The art or process of measuring the specific gravity of fluids.

See Areopagite.

A member of the Areopagus.

Pertaining to the Areopagus.

The highest judicial court at Athens. Its sessions were held on Mars' Hill. Hence, any high court or tribunal

See Intercolumniation, and Ar/ostyle.

See Intercolumniation, and Ar/osystyle.

See Arear.

A support for the spear when couched for the attack.

To reckon; to ascribe; to impute.

The ethical theory which excludes all relations between virtue and happiness; the science of virtue; -- contrasted with eudemonics.

An acute and rugged crest of a mountain range or a subsidiary ridge between two mountain gorges.

That part of moral philosophy which treats of virtue, its nature, and the means of attaining to it.

In a row.

A ludicrous corruption of the Latin word ergo, therefore.

The adjutant bird.

A species of wild sheep (Ovis ammon, or Ovis argali), remarkable for its large horns. It inhabits the mountains of Siberia and central Asia.

A genus of venomous ticks which attack men and animals. The famous Persian Argas, also called Miana bug, is Argas Persicus; that of Central America, called talaje by the natives, is Argas Talaje.