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Argillaceous schist or slate; clay slate. Its colors is bluish or blackish gray, sometimes greenish gray, brownish red, etc. -- Ar`gil*lit"ic, a.

ded as an element, contained in the atmosphere and remarkable for its chemical inertness. Rayleigh and Ramsay.

. [Obs.] There is.. no more palpable and convincing argument of the existence of a Deity. Ray. Why, then, is it made a badge of wit and an argument of parts for a man to commence atheist, and to cast off all belief of providence, all awe and reverence for religion South.

or the great length and beauty of the wing and tail feathers of the male. The species A. Grayi inhabits Borneo.

bag inclosing the seed or the white water lily. The mace of the nutmeg is also an aril. Gray.

Rising. [Obs.] Drayton.

An awn. Gray.

Having a pointed, beardlike process, as the glumes of wheat; awned. Gray.

Pertaining a short beard or awn. Gray.

s unpaid and overdue, after payment of a part; arrears. The old arrearages . . . being defrayed. Howell.

Arrival. [Obs.] Chaucer. How should I joy of thy arrive to hear! Drayton.

l properties, but in its chemical relations ranking with the nonmetals. It is of a steel-gray color and brilliant luster, though usually dull from tarnish. It is very brittle, and sublimes at 356º Fahrenheit. It is sometimes found native, but usually combined with silver, cobalt, nickel, iron, antimony, or sulphur. Orp…

es or words; to enunciate; as, to articulate letters or language. "To articulate a word." Ray.

ccurring in long and delicate fibers, or in fibrous masses or seams, usually of a white, gray, or green-gray color. The name is also given to a similar variety of serpentine.

Of the color of ashes; a whitish gray or brownish gray.

Consisting of, or resembling, ashes; of a color between brown and gray, or white and gray. The ashen hue of age. Sir W. Scott.

Ash-colored; whitish gray; deadly pale. Shak. Ashy pale, pale as ashes. Shak.

t; - - often with of, in the sense of from, before the person addressed. Ask counsel, we pray thee, of God. Judg. xviii. 5. If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you. John xv. 7.

The situation of planets or stars with respect to one another, or the angle formed by the rays of light proceeding from them and meeting at the eye; the joint look of planets or stars upon each other or upon the earth. Milton.

Capable of being; visible. "The aspectable world." Ray. "Aspectable stars." Mrs. Browning.