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use, barn, garden, or orchard, to a house or messuage. In a strict legal sense, land can never pass as an appurtenance to land. Tomlins. Bouvier. Burrill. Globes . . . provided as appurtenances to astronomy. Bacon. The structure of the eye, and of its appurtenances. Reid.

included Crustacea, spiders, centipeds, and even worms. These animals are now placed in several distinct classes and orders.

Without fever; -- applied to days when there is an intermission of fever. Dunglison.

The absence or intermission of fever.

A South American bird, of the genus Pleroglossius, allied to the toucans. There are several species.

Determination; decision; arbitration. The arbitrament of time. Everett. Gladly at this moment would MacIvor have put their quarrel to personal arbitrament. Sir W. Scott.

It was wholly arbitrary in them to do so. Jer. Taylor. Rank pretends to fix the value of every one, and is the most arbitrary of all things. Landor.

To act as arbitrator or judge; as, to arbitrate upon several reports;; to arbitrate in disputes among heighbors; to arbitrate between parties to a suit.

An evergreen tree of the cypress tribe, genus Thuja. The American species is the T. occidentalis.

The strawberry tree, a genus of evergreen shrubs, of the Heath family. It has a berry externally resembling the strawberry; the arbute tree. Trailing arbutus (Bot.), a creeping or trailing plant of the Heath family (Epigæa repens), having white or usually rose- colored flowers with a delicate fragrance, growing in smal…

A term applied to several different species of plants (Angelica archangelica, Lamium album, etc.).

The district, office, or residence of an archdeacon. See Benefice. Every diocese is divided into archdeaconries. Blackstone.

A violet dye obtained from several species of lichen (Roccella tinctoria, etc.), which grow on maritime rocks in the Canary and Cape Verd Islands, etc. Tomlinson.

A superintendent of several monasteries, corresponding to superior abbot, or father provincial, in the Roman Catholic church.

The quality of being arch; cleverness; sly humor free from malice; waggishness. Goldsmith.

a sensation of burning; fiery; as, ardent spirits, that is, distilled liquors; an ardent fever.

rts for a man to commence atheist, and to cast off all belief of providence, all awe and reverence for religion South.

d, or proved to be true. Which manner of argumentation, how false and naught it is, . . . every man that hath with perceiveth. Tyndale.

A severe critic. Knowles.

Severely critical.