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The condition of being wet or watery; wateriness. Huxley. Very little water or aquosity is found in their belly. Holland.

A sugar of the composition C5H10O5, obtained from cherry gum by boiling it with dilute sulphuric acid.

See Intercolumniation.

See Intercolumniation.

Of the aspect of a spider's web; arachnoid.

Applied to a gastrula when the blastorope does not entirely up.

To origination of living matter from non-living. See Abiogenesis. Bastian.

Sandy; full of sand. Johnson.

See Intercolumniation, and Aræostyle.

See Intercolumniation, and Aræosystyle.

A large ship, esp. a merchant vessel of the largest size. Where your argosies with portly sail . . . Do overpeer the petty traffickers. Shak.

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.

In the smooth and melodious style of an air; ariose.

the disintegration of granite or gneiss, and characterized by feldspar fragments. -- Ar*kos"ic (#), a.

The past or preterit tense of Arise.

Seamless. [R.]

To drench; to besprinkle; to moisten. [Obs.] The blissful dew of heaven does arrose you. Two N. Kins.

A gnawing. [Obs.] Bailey.

mal thickening and hardening of the walls of the arteries, esp. of the intima, occurring mostly in old age. -- Ar*te`ri*o*scle*rot"ic (#), a.

Articulation.