A frame, generally vertical, for holding small arms.

Instruments or weapons of offense or defense.

Armor.

A collection or body of men armed for war, esp. one organized in companies, battalions, regiments, brigades, and divisions, under proper officers.

An inhabitant of Albania and neighboring mountainous regions, specif. one serving as a soldier in the Turkish army.

See Annotto.

The wild buffalo of India (Bos, or Bubalus, arni), larger than the domestic buffalo and having enormous horns.

A genus of plants; also, the most important species (Arnica montana), native of the mountains of Europe, used in medicine as a narcotic and stimulant.

An active principle of Arnica montana. It is a bitter resin.

An alkaloid obtained from the arnica plant.

Same as Annotto.

A red or yellowish-red dyeing material, prepared from the pulp surrounding the seeds of a tree (Bixa orellana) belonging to the tropical regions of America. It is used for coloring cheese, butter, etc.

The earthnut.

Any plant of the Arum family (Arace/); -- have small flowers massed on a spadix surrounded by a large spathe.

Belonging to, or resembling, the Arum family of plants (Araceae).

To drive or scare off by some exclamation.

The stone pine (Pinus Cembra).

The quality or principle of plants or other substances which constitutes their fragrance; agreeable odor; as, the aroma of coffee.

A plant, drug, or medicine, characterized by a fragrant smell, and usually by a warm, pungent taste, as ginger, cinnamon, spices.

Pertaining to, or containing, aroma; fragrant; spicy; strong-scented; odoriferous; as, aromatic balsam.

The act of impregnating or secting with aroma.

To impregnate with aroma; to render aromatic; to give a spicy scent or taste to; to perfume.

One who, or that which, aromatizes or renders aromatic.

Aromatic.

A barbarous word used by the old chemists to designate various medical remedies.

On all sides of; encircling; encompassing; so as to make the circuit of; about.

proceeding without interruption for twenty four hours every day.

The act of arousing, or the state of being aroused.

To excite to action from a state of rest; to stir, or put in motion or exertion; to rouse; to excite; as, to arouse one from sleep; to arouse the dormant faculties.

emotionally stimulated.

In a row, line, or rank; successively; in order.

See Aroint.

The production of the tones of a chord in rapid succession, as in playing the harp, and not simultaneously; a strain thus played.

Formerly, a measure of land in France, varying in different parts of the country. The arpent of Paris was 4,088 sq. yards, or nearly five sixths of an English acre. The woodland arpent was about 1 acre, 1 rood, 1 perch, English.

The Anglicized form of the French arpenteur, a land surveyor.

An arpent.

Shaped like a bow; arcuate; curved.

The shot of an arquebus.

A sort of hand gun or firearm a contrivance answering to a trigger, by which the burning match was applied. The musket was a later invention.

A soldier armed with an arquebus.

Same as Alquifou.

See Orach.

A name in the East Indies and the Indian islands for all ardent spirits. Arrack is often distilled from a fermented mixture of rice, molasses, and palm wine of the cocoanut tree or the date palm, etc.

See Aragonite.

To appeal to; to demand; as, to arraign an assize of novel disseizin.

One who arraigns.

The act of arraigning, or the state of being arraigned; the act of calling and setting a prisoner before a court to answer to an indictment or complaint.

To put in proper order; to dispose (persons, or parts) in the manner intended, or best suited for the purpose; as, troops arranged for battle.

disposed or placed in a particular kind of order.

The act of arranging or putting in an orderly condition; the state of being arranged or put in order; disposition in suitable form.

One who arranges.

the act of arranging a piece of music.

Notoriously or pre/minently bad; thorough or downright, in a bad sense; shameless; unmitigated; as, an arrant rogue or coward.

Notoriously, in an ill sense; infamously; impudently; shamefully.

To furnish with an arras.

A material of wool or silk used for working the figures in embroidery.

A rude apparatus for pulverizing ores, esp. those containing free gold.

Placed in such a position as to exhibit the top and two sides, the corner being in front; -- said of a rectangular form.

To place or dispose in order, as troops for battle; to marshal.

One who arrays. In some early English statutes, applied to an officer who had care of the soldiers' armor, and who saw them duly accoutered.

That which is behind in payment, or which remains unpaid, though due; esp. a remainder, or balance which remains due when some part has been paid; arrearage; -- commonly used in the plural, as, arrears of rent, wages, or taxes.

That which remains unpaid and overdue, after payment of a part; arrears.

To direct.

An upright beam.

Lifted up; raised; erect.

Producing males from unfertilized eggs, as certain wasps and bees.

The act of taking away.

Snatched away; seized or possessed, as a demoniac; raving; mad; crack-brained.

The act of stopping, or restraining from further motion, etc.; stoppage; hindrance; restraint; as, an arrest of development.

Arrest.

The person in whose hands is the property attached by arrestment.

One who arrests.

Striking; attracting attention; impressive.

Tending to arrest.

The arrest of a person, or the seizure of his effects; esp., a process by which money or movables in the possession of a third party are attached.

Same as Aret.

Money or other valuable thing given to evidence a contract; a pledge or earnest.

Seamless.

Destitute of a true root, as a parasitical plant.

Being without rhythm or regularity, as the pulse.

Want of rhythm.

To please; to gratify.

/That which is behind/; the rear; -- chiefly used as an adjective in the sense of behind, rear, subordinate.

A proclamation, as of the French kings, calling not only their immediate feudatories, but the vassals of these feudatories, to take the field for war; also, the body of vassals called or liable to be called to arms, as in ancient France.

The sharp edge or salient angle formed by two surfaces meeting each other, whether plane or curved; -- applied particularly to the edges in moldings, and to the raised edges which separate the flutings in a Doric column.

The stubble of wheat or grass; a stubble field; eddish.

Diagonally laid, as tiles; ridgewise.

The act of arriving, or coming; the act of reaching a place from a distance, whether by water (as in its original sense) or by land.

Arrival.

Arrival.

One who arrives.

directed or moving inward or toward a center; as, arriving trains.

A Spanish weight used in Mexico and South America = 25.36 lbs. avoir.; also, an old Portuguese weight, used in Brazil = 32.38 lbs. avoir.

The act or habit of arrogating, or making undue claims in an overbearing manner; that species of pride which consists in exorbitant claims of rank, dignity, estimation, or power, or which exalts the worth or importance of the person to an undue degree; proud contempt of others; lordliness; haughtiness; self-assumption; presumption.

Arrogance.

Making, or having the disposition to make, exorbitant claims of rank or estimation; giving one's self an undue degree of importance; assuming; haughty; -- applied to persons.

In an arrogant manner; with undue pride or self-importance.

Arrogance.

To assume, or claim as one's own, unduly, proudly, or presumptuously; to make undue claims to, from vanity or baseless pretensions to right or merit; as, the pope arrogated dominion over kings.

The act of arrogating, or making exorbitant claims; the act of taking more than one is justly entitled to.

Making undue claims and pretension; prone to arrogance.

A subdivision of a department.

To drench; to besprinkle; to moisten.

A gnawing.

A missile weapon of offense, slender, pointed, and usually feathered and barbed, to be shot from a bow.

An herbaceous grasslike plant (Triglochin palustre, and other species) with pods opening so as to suggest barbed arrowheads.

the pointed head or striking tip of an arrow.

like an arrow head without flaring base lobes; -- of a leaf shape.

any plant (Viburnum recognitum) closely related to southern arrow wood; eastern U.S. Maine to Ohio and Georgia.

Shaped like the head of an arrow; cuneiform.

A white-flowered west Indian plant of the genus Maranta, esp. Maranta arundinacea, now cultivated in many hot countries. Its root yields arrowroot starch. It said that the Indians used the roots to neutralize the venom in wounds made by poisoned arrows.

A shrub (Viburnum dentatum) growing in damp woods and thickets; -- so called from the long, straight, slender shoots. Also, any of several other similar small trees whose straight shoots were used for making arrows.

A peculiar transparent worm of the genus Sagitta, living at the surface of the sea. See Sagitta.

Consisting of arrows.

A water course; a rivulet.

See Arshine.

The buttocks, or hind part of an animal; the posteriors; the fundament; the bottom.

execretory opening at the end of the alimentary canal.

A public establishment for the storage, or for the manufacture and storage, of arms and all military equipments, whether for land or naval service.

A salt of arsenic acid.