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The whole body of persons thus placed in order; an orderly collection; hence, a body of soldiers. A gallant array of nobles and cavaliers. Prescott.

Those branches of learning which are taught in the academical course of colleges; as, master of arts. In fearless youth we tempt the heights of arts. Pope. Four years spent in the arts (as they are called in colleges) is, perhaps, laying too laborious a foundation. Goldsmith.

he science of artillery or gunnery. Campbell. Artillery park, or Park of artillery. (a) A collective body of siege or field artillery, including the guns, and the carriages, ammunition, appurtenances, equipments, and persons necessary for working them. (b) The place where the artillery is encamped or collected. -- Art…

Works of art collectively.

A collection of serous fluid in the cavity of the abdomen; dropsy of the peritoneum. Dunglison.

ascomycetous fungi, the spherical, discoid, or cup-shaped body within which the asci are collected, and which constitutes the mature fructification. The different forms are known in mycology under distinct names. Called also spore fruit.

An instrument for the evacuation of the fluid contents of tumors or collections of blood.

A collection of individuals, or of individuals, or of particular things; as, a political assemblage; an assemblage of ideas.

To collect into one place or body; to bring or call together; to convene; to congregate. Thither he assembled all his train. Milton. All the men of Israel assembled themselves. 1 Kings viii. 2.

A company of persons collected together in one place, and usually for some common purpose, esp. for deliberation and legislation, for worship, or for social entertainment.

A collection or quantity of things distributed into kinds or sorts; a number of things assorted.

assume, in consequence of an exploit; now, those assumed without sanction of the Heralds' College. Percy Smith.

A collection of maps in a volume; --

At Oxford, England, a member of a hall, distinguished from a collegian. Chalmers.

A Scottish phrase used in recalling recollections of times long since past. "The days of auld lang syne."

An amateur collector and breeder of insects, esp. of butterflies and moths; a lepidopterist.

A collection of the Novels or New Constitutions of Justinian, by an anonymous author; -- so called on account of its authencity. Bouvier.

To fly, or navigate the air, in an aëroplane or heavier-than- air flying machine. [Colloq.]

Weight; heaviness; as, a woman of much avoirdupois. [Colloq.] Avoirdupois weight, a system of weights by which coarser commodities are weighed, such as hay, grain, butter, sugar, tea.

Upholding; defense; vindication. [Obs.] Can my avowance of king-murdering be collected from anything here written by me Fuller.