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Opposition or resistance of matter to force. [R.] Sir W. Hamilton.

An iron block, usually with a steel face, upon which metals are hammered and shaped.

otragus tragelaphus) having a long mane on the breast and fore legs. It is, perhaps, the chamois of the Old Testament.

Self-evident; intuitively true; evident beyond contradiction. Brougham. Sir Wm. Hamilton.

dress; garb; external habiliments or array. Fresh in his new apparel, proud and young. Denham. At public devotion his resigned carriage made religion appear in the natural apparel of simplicity. Tatler.

een called by philosophers the apperception or consciousness of our own existence. Sir W. Hamilton.

assignment, to each proprietor, of his just portion of an undivided right or property. A. Hamilton.

the faculty of apprehension. Judgment . . . is implied in every apprehensive act. Sir W. Hamilton.

f; to approve; to sanction officially. I approbate the one, I reprobate the other. Sir W. Hamilton.

a thousand years, I shall not find myself so apt to die. Shak. I find thee apt . . . Now, Hamlet, hear. Shak.

A shelly plate found in the terminal chambers of ammonite shells. Some authors consider them to be jaws; others, opercula.

thin and delicate, like a cobweb; as, the araneous membrane of the eye. See Arachnoid. Derham.

A female archer. Markham.

Used in building; proper for building. Derham.

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

Pertaining to Aristotle or to his philosophy. "Aristotelic usage." Sir W. Hamilton.

there he arranged his men in the streets. Berners. [They] were beginning to arrange their hampers. Boswell. A mechanism previously arranged. Paley.

Notoriously or preëminently bad; thorough or downright, in a bad sense; shameless; unmitigated; as, an arrant rogue or coward. I discover an arrant laziness in my soul. Fuller.

Notoriously, in an ill sense; infamously; impudently; shamefully. L'Estrange.

rtain attributes or relations; as, virtue considered as virtue; this actor will appear as Hamlet. The beggar is greater as a man, than is the man merely as a king. Dewey.