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arranging

the act of arranging a piece of music.

Arrant

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

Arrantly

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

Arras

To furnish with an arras.

Arrasene

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

Arrastre

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

Arrasways Arraswise

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

Array

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

Arrayer

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.

Arrear

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.

Arrearage

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

Arrenotokous

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

Arreptitious

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

Arrest

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

Arrestee

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

Arresting

Striking; attracting attention; impressive.

Arrestment

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.

Arrha

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

Arriere

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

Arriere-ban

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.

Arris

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.

Arrish

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

Arriswise

Diagonally laid, as tiles; ridgewise.

Arrival

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.

arriving

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

Arroba

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.

Arrogance

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.

Arrogant

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.

Arrogantly

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

Arrogate

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.

Arrogation

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

Arrogative

Making undue claims and pretension; prone to arrogance.

Arrose

To drench; to besprinkle; to moisten.

Arrow

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

Arrow grass

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

arrow-shaped

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

arrow-wood

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

Arrowheaded

Shaped like the head of an arrow; cuneiform.

Arrowroot

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.

Arrowwood

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.

Arrowworm

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

Arroyo

A water course; a rivulet.

Arse

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

arsehole

execretory opening at the end of the alimentary canal.

Arsenal

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

Arsenic

Pertaining to, or derived from, arsenic; -- said of those compounds of arsenic in which this element has its highest equivalence; as, arsenic acid.

Arsenical

Of or pertaining to, or containing, arsenic; as, arsenical vapor; arsenical wall papers.

Arsenicate

To combine with arsenic; to treat or impregnate with arsenic.

Arsenicism

A diseased condition produced by slow poisoning with arsenic.

Arsenide

A compound of arsenic with a metal, or positive element or radical; -- formerly called arseniuret.

Arsenious

Pertaining to, consisting of, or containing, arsenic; as, arsenious powder or glass.

Arsenite

A salt formed by the union of arsenious acid with a base.

Arseniureted

Combined with arsenic; -- said some elementary substances or radicals; as, arseniureted hydrogen.

Arsenopyrite

A mineral of a tin-white color and metallic luster, containing arsenic, sulphur, and iron; -- also called arsenical pyrites and mispickel.

Arshine

A Russian measure of length = 2 ft. 4.246 inches.

Arsine

A compound of arsenic and hydrogen, AsH3, a colorless and exceedingly poisonous gas, having an odor like garlic; arseniureted hydrogen.

Arsis

That part of a foot where the ictus is put, or which is distinguished from the rest (known as the thesis) of the foot by a greater stress of voice. That elevation of voice now called metrical accentuation, or the rhythmic accent.

Arson

The malicious burning of a dwelling house or outhouse of another man, which by the common law is felony; the malicious and voluntary firing of a building or ship.

arsonist

a criminal who illegaly sets fire to property.

Art

The employment of means to accomplish some desired end; the adaptation of things in the natural world to the uses of life; the application of knowledge or power to practical purposes.

Artamidae

a natural family comprising the wood swallows.

Artamus

the type genus of the Artamidae.

Artemia

A genus of phyllopod Crustacea found in salt lakes and brines; the brine shrimp. See Brine shrimp.

Artemis

the virgin goddess of the hunt and the moon in Greek mythology; one of the Olympian deities, daughter of Zeus and Leto and twin sister of Apollo; identified with the Roman Diana.

Artemisia

A genus of plants including the plants called mugwort, southernwood, and wormwood. Of these Artemisia absinthium, or common wormwood, is well known, and Artemisia tridentata is the sage brush of the Rocky Mountain region.

arteria

a blood vessel that carries blood from the heart to the body.

Arteriac

Of or pertaining to the windpipe.

Arterial

Of or pertaining to an artery, or the arteries; as, arterial action; the arterial system.

Arterialization

The process of converting venous blood into arterial blood during its passage through the lungs, oxygen being absorbed and carbonic acid evolved; -- called also a/ration and hematosis.

Arterialize

To transform, as the venous blood, into arterial blood by exposure to oxygen in the lungs; to make arterial.

Arteriology

That part of anatomy which treats of arteries.

Arteriolosclerosis

a form of arteriosclerosis which affects predominantly the arterioles, found especially in people with chronic hypertension.

Arteriosclerosis

a chronic disease characterized by abnormal thickening and hardening of the walls of the arteries, esp. of the intima, occurring mostly in old age. Subtypes are distinguished, such as arteriolosclerosis and atherosclerosis.

Arteriotomy

The opening of an artery, esp. for bloodletting.

Arteritis

Inflammation of an artery or arteries.

Artery

The trachea or windpipe.

Artesian

Of or pertaining to Artois (anciently called Artesium), in France.

Artful

Performed with, or characterized by, art or skill.

Artfully

In an artful manner; with art or cunning; skillfully; dexterously; craftily.

Artfulness

The quality of being artful; art; cunning; craft.

Arthritis

Any inflammation of the joints, including the gout. A variety of forms of arthritis are recognized, some of which (such as rheumatoid arthritis, also called arthritis deformans and arthritis nodosa) are chronic and progressive, and lead to incapacitation and deformity.

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