Admitting of argument.
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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.
a resident of Arkansas.
a resident of Arkansas.
Belonging to the ark.
A sandstone derived from the disintegration of granite or gneiss, and characterized by feldspar fragments.
An earnest; earnest money; money paid to bind a bargain.
To provide one's self with arms, weapons, or means of attack or resistance; to take arms.
Great as a man's arm.
A fleet of armed ships; a squadron. Specifically, the Spanish fleet which was sent to assail England, a. d. 1558.
a family comrising the pill bugs.
the type genus of the Armadillidiidae.
Any edentate animal if the family Dasypid/, peculiar to America. The body and head are incased in an armor composed of small bony plates. The armadillos burrow in the earth, seldom going abroad except at night. When attacked, they curl up into a ball, presenting the armor on all sides. Their flesh is good food. There are several species, one of which (the peba) is found as far north as Texas. See Peba, Poyou, Tatouay. A genus of small isopod Crustacea that can roll themselves into a ball.
Armada.
the final, decisive battle between the forces of good and evil, as foretold in the Apocolypse of Saint John. Also, the site of that battle. Used metaphorically for a vast and decisive conflict, attended by cataclysmic destruction.
A body of forces equipped for war; -- used of a land or naval force.
An armory; a magazine or arsenal.
Armor; whatever is worn or used for the protection and defense of the body, esp. the protective outfit of some animals and plants.
a band worn around arm as identification or to indicate mourning.
A chair with arms to support the elbows or forearms.
Furnished with weapons of offense or defense; furnished with the means of security or protection.
a country in the Caucasus, formerly a part of the Soviet Union.
A native or one of the people of Armenia; also, the language of the Armenians.
a genus of shrubby or herbaceous low-growing evergreen perennials.
A kind of helmet worn in the 14th, 15th, and 16th centuries.
As much as the arm can hold.
With gaunt or slender legs. (?)
The cavity under the shoulder; the armpit.
Bearing arms or weapons.
Formerly, an armor bearer, as of a knight, an esquire who bore his shield and rendered other services. In later use, one next in degree to a knight, and entitled to armorial bearings. The term is now superseded by esquire.
Bearing arms.
A bracelet.
An armil.
Pertaining to, or resembling, a bracelet or ring; consisting of rings or circles.
The act of furnishing with, or taking, arms.
One who holds the tenets of Arminius, a Dutch divine (b. 1560, d. 1609).
The religious doctrines or tenets of the Arminians.
Power in arms.
Powerful in arms; mighty in battle.
Rustling in arms; resounding with arms.
A cessation of arms for a short time, by convention; a temporary suspension of hostilities by agreement; a truce.
Without any arm or branch.
A small arm; as, an armlet of the sea.
Ammoniac.
Defensive arms for the body; any clothing or covering worn to protect one's person in battle.
One who carries the armor or arms of another; an armiger.
Covered with defensive plates of metal, as a ship of war; steel-clad.
horseradish.
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