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The art or process of measuring the specific gravity of fluids.

See Areopagite.

A member of the Areopagus. Acts xvii. 34.

Pertaining to the Areopagus. Mitford.

The highest judicial court at Athens. Its sessions were held on Mars' Hill. Hence, any high court or tribunal

See Intercolumniation, and Aræostyle.

See Intercolumniation, and Aræosystyle.

See Arear. [Obs.] Ellis.

A support for the spear when couched for the attack. [Obs.] Chaucer.

To reckon; to ascribe; to impute. [Obs.] Chaucer.

The ethical theory which excludes all relations between virtue and happiness; the science of virtue; -- contrasted with eudemonics. J. Grote.

An acute and rugged crest of a mountain range or a subsidiary ridge between two mountain gorges.

That part of moral philosophy which treats of virtue, its nature, and the means of attaining to it.

In a row. [Obs.] "All her teeth arew." Spenser.

Crude tartar. See Argol.

A species of wild sheep (Ovis ammon, or O. argali), remarkable for its large horns. It inhabits the mountains of Siberia and central Asia.

The adjutant bird.

A lamp with a circular hollow wick and glass chimney which allow a current of air both inside and outside of the flame. Argand burner, a burner for an Argand lamp, or a gas burner in which the principle of that lamp is applied.

A genus of venomous ticks which attack men and animals. The famous Persian Argas, also called Miana bug, is A. Persicus; that of Central America, called talaje by the natives, is A. Talaje.

Pertaining to the ship Argo. See Argo.