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sed to introduce an incidental observation, suited to the occasion, though not strictly belonging to the narration.

Without lateral columns; -- applied to buildings which have no series of columns along their sides, but are either prostyle or amphiprostyle, and opposed to peripteral. R. Cyc.

Belonging to or like an eagle.

A long, arched building or gallery.

A fossil bird, of the Jurassic period, remarkable for having a long tapering tail of many vertebræ with feathers along each side, and jaws armed with teeth, with other reptilian characteristics.

Like or belonging to the earliest forms of animal life.

nt, antiquated, or old-fashioned, word, expression, or idiom; a word or form of speech no longer in common use.

chitectonic wisdom." Boyle. These architectonic functions which we had hitherto thought belonged. J. C. Shairp.

nner; with attractive slyness or roguishness; slyly; waggishly. Archly the maiden smiled. Longfellow.

The oblong chest of acacia wood, overlaid with gold, which supported the mercy seat with its golden cherubs, and occupied the most sacred place in the sanctuary. In it Moses placed the two tables of stone containing the ten commandments. Called also the Ark of the Covenant.

A marine bivalve shell belonging to the genus Arca and its allies.

Belonging to the ark. [R.] Faber.

to go with the arm or hand of one linked in the arm of another. "When arm in armwe went along." Tennyson. -- To keep at arm's length, to keep at a distance (literally or figuratively); not to allow to come into close contact or familiar intercourse. -- To work at arm's length, to work disadvantageously.…

All the cannon and small arms collectively, with their equipments, belonging to a ship or a fortification.

Bearing arms. [R.] They belonged to the armigerous part of the population, and were entitled to write themselves Esquire. De Quincey.

Belonging to armor, or to the heraldic arms or escutcheon of a family. Figures with armorial signs of race and birth. Wordsworth. Armorial bearings. See Arms, 4.

Belonging to, or resembling, the Arum family of plants.

An imposing series of things. Their long array of sapphire and of gold. Byron.

hether by water (as in its original sense) or by land. Our watchmen from the towers, with longing eyes, Expect his swift arrival. Dryden.

A shrub (Viburnum dentatum) growing in damp woods and thickets; -- so called from the long, straight, slender shoots.