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.

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.

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.

Pertaining to the ship Argo. See Argo.

Made of silver; of a silvery color; white; shining.

Of or pertaining to silver; resembling, containing, or combined with, silver.

A (patented) alloy of aluminium and silver, with a density of about 2.9.

An alloy of nickel with copper and zinc; German silver.

Silvery white.

A coating or overlaying with silver.

Pertaining to, derived from, or containing, silver; -- said of certain compounds of silver in which this metal has its lowest proportion; as, argentic chloride.

Producing or containing silver; as, argentiferous lead ore or veins.

a country in South America, bordering Chile and Bolivia.

A siliceous variety of calcite, or carbonate of lime, having a silvery-white, pearly luster, and a waving or curved lamellar structure.

a native or inhabitant of Argentina.

a family of small marine soft-finned fishes with long silvery bodies; related to salmons and trouts.

Sulphide of silver; -- also called vitreous silver, or silver glance. It has a metallic luster, a lead-gray color, and is sectile like lead.

Of, pertaining to, or containing, silver; -- said of certain silver compounds in which silver has a higher proportion than in argentic compounds; as, argentous chloride.

Silver plate or vessels.

Clay, or potter's earth; sometimes pure clay, or alumina. See Clay.

Of the nature of clay; consisting of, or containing, argil or clay; clayey.

Producing clay; -- applied to such earths as abound with argil.

Argillaceous schist or slate; clay slate. Its colors is bluish or blackish gray, sometimes greenish gray, brownish red, etc.

Consisting of, or containing, clay and sand, as a soil.

Consisting of, or containing, clay and calcareous earth.

Containing clay and iron.

Argillaceous; clayey.

Of or performance to Argos, the capital of Argolis in Greece. A native of Argos. Often used as a generic term, equivalent to Grecian or Greek.

The name of the ship which carried Jason and his fifty-four companions to Colchis, in quest of the Golden Fleece.

Pertaining to the ship Argo.

Potter's clay.

Crude tartar; an acidulous salt from which cream of tartar is prepared. It exists in the juice of grapes, and is deposited from wines on the sides of the casks.

Pertaining to Argolis, a district in the Peloponnesus.

A colorless, odorless gas occurring in the air (of which it constitutes 0.93 per cent by volume), in volcanic gases, etc.; -- so named on account of its inertness by Rayleigh and Ramsay, who prepared and examined it in 1894-95. Symbol, A; at. wt., 39.9. Argon is condensible to a colorless liquid boiling at -186.1/ C. and to a solid melting at -189.6/ C. It has a characteristic spectrum. No compounds of it are known, but there is physical evidence that its molecule is monatomic. Weight of one liter at 0/ C. and 760 mm., 1.7828 g.

Any one of the legendary Greek heroes who sailed with Jason, in the Argo, in quest of the Golden Fleece.

A genus of Cephalopoda. The shell is called paper nautilus or paper sailor.

Of or pertaining to the Argonauts.

a family of cephalopods represented solely by the genus Argonauta.

an American operation in World War I (1918); American troops under Pershing drove back the German armies which were saved only by the Armistice on November 11.

an ancient city in SE Greece; dominated the Peloponnese in the 7th century BC.

A large ship, esp. a merchant vessel of the largest size.

A secret language or conventional slang peculiar to thieves, tramps, and vagabonds; flash.

Capable of being argued; admitting of debate.

To debate or discuss; to treat by reasoning; as, the counsel argued the cause before a full court; the cause was well argued.

One who argues; a reasoner; a disputant.

To argue pertinaciously.

A genus of copepod Crustacea, parasitic of fishes; a fish louse. See Branchiura.

To make an argument; to argue.

Admitting of argument.

Of, pertaining to, or containing, argument; argumentative.

The act of forming reasons, making inductions, drawing conclusions, and applying them to the case in discussion; the operation of inferring propositions, not known or admitted as true, from facts or principles known, admitted, or proved to be true.

Consisting of, or characterized by, argument; containing a process of reasoning; as, an argumentative discourse.

To argue or discuss.

A fabulous being of antiquity, said to have had a hundred eyes, who has placed by Juno to guard Io. His eyes were transplanted to the peacock's tail.