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See Aroint.

To reach a point by progressive motion; to gain or compass an object by effort, practice, study, inquiry, reasoning, or experiment. To arrive at, or attain to. When he arrived at manhood. Rogers. We arrive at knowledge of a law of nature by the generalization of facts. McCosh. If at great things thou wouldst arrive. Mi…

A missile weapon of offense, slender, pointed, and usually feathered and barbed, to be shot from a bow. Broad arrow. (a) An arrow with a broad head. (b) A mark placed upon British ordnance and government stores, which bears a rude resemblance to a broad arrowhead.

Pertaining to the joints. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

Any inflammation of the joints, particularly the gout.

Chondritis of a joint.

Surgical fixation of joints.

An affection characterized by pain in or about a joint, not dependent upon structural disease.

Pertaining to arthrodynia, or pain in the joints; rheumatic.

The description of joints.

That part of anatomy which treats of joints.

Any disease of the joints.

A large division of Articulata, embracing all those that have jointed legs. It includes Insects, Arachnida, Pychnogonida, and Crustacea. -- Ar*throp"o*dal, a.

A strong scalpel used in the dissection of joints.

Precise point of time; moment. [Obs. or Archaic] This fatal news coming to Hick's Hall upon the article of my Lord Russell's trial, was said to have had no little influence on the jury and all the bench to his prejudice. Evelyn.

Of or pertaining to the joints; as, an articular disease; an articular process.

Jointed; formed with joints; consisting of segments united by joints; as, articulate animals or plants.

United by, or provided with, articulations; jointed; as, an articulated skeleton.

After the manner, or in the form, of a joint.

A joint or juncture between bones in the skeleton.