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, fruits, foliage, etc., as well as figures of men and animals, real or imaginary, are fantastically interlaced or put together.

abor, like the ascending of acclivities; difficult; laborious; as, an arduous employment, task, or enterprise.

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

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

To call to account, or accuse, before the bar of reason, taste, or any other tribunal. They will not arraign you for want of knowledge. Dryden. It is not arrogance, but timidity, of which the Christian body should now be arraigned by the world. I. Taylor.

One who professes and practices an art in which science and taste preside over the manual execution.

One peculiarly dexterous and tasteful in almost any employment, as an opera dancer, a hairdresser, a cook.

tists; made in the manner of an artist; conformable to art; characterized by art; showing taste or skill. -- Ar*tis"tic*al*ly, adv.

A place where potash is made.

Roughness to the taste; sourness; tartness.

To try tasting, as food or drink. [Obs.]

To besot; to befool; to beguile; to infatuate. [Obs.] Some ecstasy assotted had his sense. Spenser.

g; contracting; -- opposed to laxative; as, astringent medicines; a butter and astringent taste; astringent fruit.

To set to work upon, as upon a task or problem, or some object of labor or investigation.

vals . . . has led the manufacturer to . . . attenuate his processes, in the allotment of tasks, to an extreme point. I. Taylor. We may reject and reject till we attenuate history into sapless meagerness. Sir F. Palgrave.

A combination of auric acid with a base; as, aurate or potassium.

Harshness or astringent sourness to the taste; acerbity. Johnson.

Sourness and harshness to the taste. [Obs.] Horsley.

nizant; conscious; as, he was aware of the enemy's designs. Aware of nothing arduous in a task They never undertook. Cowper.

United States, where horizontal strata (Tertiary deposits) have been often eroded into fantastic forms, and much intersected by canons, and where lack of wood, water, and forage increases the difficulty of traversing the country, whence the name, first given by the Canadian French, Mauvaises Terres (bad lands).…