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An interstice or small space, as between the cracks of the surface in certain crustaceous lichens; or as between the fibers composing organs or vessels that interlace; or as between the nervures of an insect's wing.

Pertaining to, or like, an areola; filled with interstices or areolæ. reolar tissue (Anat.), a form of fibrous connective tissue in which the fibers are loosely arranged with numerous spaces, or areolæ, between them.

Divided into small spaces or areolations, as the wings of insects, the leaves of plants, or the receptacle of compound flowers.

Division into areolæ. Dana.

Same as Areola.

A small inclosed area; esp. one of the small spaces on the wings of insects, circumscribed by the veins.

An instrument for measuring the specific gravity of fluids; a form hydrometer.

Pertaining to, or measured by, an areometer.

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.