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.
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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.
Extremely observant; watchful; sharp-sighted.
Caviling; subtle disputation.
Sharp; shrill.
In a subtle; shrewdly.
Acuteness.
a genus of woody climbers of tropical Asia to Australia.
a compound of protein and silver used as a mild antiseptic; Argyrol is the trademark.
a genus comprising the orange tortrix.
a small genus of Hawaiian spreading and rosette-forming shrubs.
a Buddhist who has attained nirvana.
a Buddhist who has attained nirvana.
See Arrhizal, Arrhizous, Arrhythmic, Arrhythmous.
An air or song; a melody; a tune.
Pertaining to Arius, a presbyter of the church of Alexandria, in the fourth century, or to the doctrines of Arius, who held Christ to be inferior to God the Father in nature and dignity, though the first and noblest of all created beings. One who adheres to or believes the doctrines of Arius.
The doctrines of the Arians.
To convert to Arianism.
a goddess famous for her beauty; the mother of Dylan.
An alkaloid, first found in white cinchona bark.
Exhausted of moisture; parched with heat; dry; barren.
The state or quality of being arid or without moisture; dryness.
Aridity; dryness.
In the Cabala, a water spirit; in later folklore, a light and graceful spirit of the air.
A variety of the gazelle (Antilope dorcas, or Gazella, dorcas), found in Arabia and adjacent countries. A squirrel-like Australian marsupial, a species of Petaurus. A beautiful Brazilian toucan Ramphastos ariel).
The Ram; the first of the twelve signs in the zodiac, which the sun enters at the vernal equinox, about the 21st of March. A constellation west of Taurus, drawn on the celestial globe in the figure of a ram.
To butt, as a ram.
The act of butting like a ram; act of using a battering-ram.
A short aria, or air.
Rightly; correctly; in a right way or form; without mistake or crime; as, to worship God aright.
Having an aril.
A false aril; an aril originating from the micropyle instead of from the funicle or chalaza of the ovule. The mace of the nutmeg is an arillode.
A exterior covering, forming a false coat or appendage to a seed, as the loose, transparent bag inclosing the seed of the white water lily. The mace of the nutmeg is also an aril.
See Ahriman.
a genus of slow-growing geophytic cacti; northern and eastern Mexico; southern Texas.
A soothsaying; a foretelling.
In Greek legend, a fabulous horse, the offspring of Poseidon by Demeter (or, in other accounts, Gaea or a harpy) who to escape him had metamorphosed herself into a mare. It was successively owned by Copreus, Oncus, Heracles, and Adrastus. It possessed marvelous powers of speech, and its right feet were those of a man.
Characterized by melody, as distinguished from harmony.
In the smooth and melodious style of an air; ariose.
a genus of tuberous or rhizomatous perennial herbs; mainly Mediterranean area.
Rising.
3d sing. pres. of Arise, for ariseth.
An awn.
A severe critic.
Severely critical.
Severe criticism.
Having a pointed, beardlike process, as the glumes of wheat; awned.
Government by the best citizens.
One of the aristocracy or people of rank in a community; one of a ruling class; a noble.
Of or pertaining to an aristocracy; consisting in, or favoring, a government of nobles, or principal men; as, an aristocratic constitution.
The principles of aristocrats.
a family comprising the birthworts; wild ginger.
an order of plants distinguished by tubular petaloid perianth and inferior ovary. It includes the Aristolochiaceae, Rafflesiaceae, and Hydnoraceae.
The science of dining.
Of or pertaining to Aristophanes, the Athenian comic poet.
of or pertaining to Aristotle; Aristotelian.
a small genus of shrubs or small trees of Australia and New Zealand and West South America.
Of or pertaining to Aristotle, the famous Greek philosopher (384-322 b. c.). A follower of Aristotle; a Peripatetic. See Peripatetic.
Pertaining to Aristotle or to his philosophy.
Orig., a printing-out process using paper coated with silver chloride in gelatin; now, any such process using silver salts in either collodion or gelatin; also, a print so made.
Having a short beard or awn.
Divination by means of numbers.
The science of numbers; the art of computation by figures.
Of or pertaining to arithmetic; according to the rules or method of arithmetic.
Conformably to the principles or methods of arithmetic.
One skilled in arithmetic.
Arithmancy.
A calculating machine.
a resident of Arizona.
a resident of Arizona.
A chest, or coffer.
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