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Characterized by melody, as distinguished from harmony. Mendelssohn wants the ariose beauty of Handel; vocal melody is not his forte; the interest of his airs harmonic. Foreign Quart. Rev.

Power in arms. [R.] Johnson.

A small arm; as, an armlet of the sea. Johnson.

adorn with dress; to cloth to envelop; -- applied esp. to dress of a splendid kind. Pharaoh . . . arrayed him in vestures of fine linen. Gen. xli. In gelid caves with horrid gloom arrayed. Trumbull.

from laws, authorities, and the like, which are called inartificial arguments or proofs. Johnson. -- Artificial classification (Science), an arrangement based on superficial characters, and not expressing the true natural relations species; as, "the artificial system" in botany, which is the same as the Linnæan system…

Artificial. [Obs.] Johnson.

To make Aryan (a language, or in language). K. Johnston.

descend. Higher yet that star ascends. Bowring. I ascend unto my father and your father. John xx. 17.

hat forsake thee shall be ashamed. Jer. xvii. 13. I began to be ashamed of sitting idle. Johnson. Enough to make us ashamed of our species. Macaulay. An ashamed person can hardly endure to meet the gaze of those present. Darwin.

me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you. John xv. 7.

no very cynical asperity not to confess obligations where no benefit has been received. Johnson.

f aspiring of a ardently desiring; strong wish; high desire. "Aspirations after virtue." Johnson. Vague aspiration after military renown. Prescott.

power of assailing; attack; assault. [R.] His most frequent assailment was the headache. Johnson.

cause a resemblance between. Sir M. Hale. To assimilate our law to the law of Scotland. John Bright. Fast falls a fleecy; the downy flakes Assimilate all objects. Cowper.

er [was] killed by valiant Walworth, the lord mayor of London, and his assistance, . . . John Cavendish. Fuller.

ntally linked or associated with a thing. Words . . . must owe their powers association. Johnson. Why should . . . the holiest words, with all their venerable associations, be profaned Coleridge.

A patch; an addition; a piece put on. [Obs.] John Lewis (1731).

. And hereby we know that we are of the truth, and shall assure our hearts before him. 1 John iii. 19.

Melancholic or hypohondriac; atrabilious; -- from the supposed predominance of black bile, to the influence of which the ancients attributed hypochondria, melancholy, and mania. Atrabiliary arteries, capsules, and veins (Anat.), those pertaining to the kidney; -- called also renal arteries, capsules, and veins.…

The internal parts of a flower, included within the calyx and the corolla. [Obs.] Johnson.