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A chief or transcendent traitor. I. Watts.

A chief treasurer. Specifically, the great treasurer of the German empire.

A way or passage under an arch.

A big, masculine wife. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Arch-shaped.

Arched; as, archy brows.

Having the form of an arch; curved.

An instrument for drawing a circular arc without the use of a central point; a cyclograph.

Constriction or contraction of some natural passage, as in constipation from inflammation.

Pertaining to, or situated under, the northern constellation called the Bear; northern; frigid; as, the arctic pole, circle, region, ocean; an arctic expedition, night, temperature.

A group of Arachnida. See Illust. in Appendix.

Of or pertaining to arctic lands; as, the arctogeal fauna.

A group of the Carnivora, that includes the bears, weasels, etc.

A fixed star of the first magnitude in the constellation Boötes.

Of or pertaining to an arc. Arcual measure of an angle (Math.), that in which the unit angle has its measuring arc equal to the radius of the circle.

Bent or curved in the form of a bow. "Arcuate stalks." Gray.

In the form of a bow.

propagating trees by bending branches to the ground, and covering the small shoots with earth; layering. Chambers.

A crossbow. Fosbroke.

A crossbowman; one who used the arcubalist. Camden.