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See Arquebus. [Obs.]

A very fine sort of Persian silk.

Warmth of passion or affection; ardor; vehemence; eagerness; as, the ardency of love or zeal.

Hot or burning; causing a sensation of burning; fiery; as, ardent spirits, that is, distilled liquors; an ardent fever.

In an ardent manner; eagerly; with warmth; affectionately; passionately.

Ardency. [R.]

m of electric night signals in which a series of double electric lamps (white and red) is arranged vertically on a mast, and operated from a keyboard below.

Heat, in a literal sense; as, the ardor of the sun's rays.

Steep and lofty, in a literal sense; hard to climb. Those arduous pats they trod. Pope.

In an arduous manner; with difficulty or laboriousness.

The quality of being arduous; difficulty of execution.

Burning; ardent. [R.] Lo! further on, Where flames the arduous Spirit of Isidore. Cary.

l of the substantive verb to be; but etymologically a different word from be, or was. Am, art, are, and is, all come from the root as.

und within an inclosure; an open space in a building. The Alban lake . . . looks like the area of some vast amphitheater. Addison.

To tell, declare, explain, or interpret; to divine; to guess; as, to aread a riddle or a dream. [Obs.] Therefore more plain aread this doubtful case. Spenser.

Of or pertaining to an area; as, areal interstices (the areas or spaces inclosed by the reticulate vessels of leaves).

Backward; in or to the rear; behindhand. Spenser.

A genus of palms, one species of which produces the areca nut, or betel nut, which is chewed in India with the leaf of the Piper Betle and lime.

An oily liquid substance, C8H13O2N, the chief alkaloid of the betel nut, to which the latter owes its anthelmintic action.

In a reeking condition. Swift.