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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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ARBORICULTURIST n.

One who cultivates trees.

One who makes trees his study, or who is versed in the knowledge of trees. Howell.

of Arise, for ariseth. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A severe critic. Knowles.

ARISTARCHIAN a.

Severely critical.

ARISTARCHY n. 2 definitions

Severely criticism.

ARISTATE a. 2 definitions

Having a pointed, beardlike process, as the glumes of wheat; awned. Gray.

ARISTOCRACY n. 4 definitions

bs.] In the Senate Right not our quest in this, I will protest them To all the world, no aristocracy. B. Jonson.

ARISTOCRAT n. 3 definitions

One of the aristocracy or people of rank in a community; one of a ruling class; a noble.

ARISTOCRATIC; ARISTOCRATICAL a. 2 definitions

Of or pertaining to an aristocracy; consisting in, or favoring, a government of nobles, or principal men; as, an aristocratic constitution.

ARISTOCRATISM n. 2 definitions

The principles of aristocrats. Romilly.

The science of dining. Quart. Rev.

ARISTOPHANIC a.

Of or pertaining to Aristophanes, the Athenian comic poet.

ARISTOTELIAN a. 2 definitions

Of or pertaining to Aristotle, the famous Greek philosopher (384-322 b. c.). -- n.

ARISTOTELIANISM n.

The philosophy of Aristotle, otherwise called the Peripatetic philosophy.

Pertaining to Aristotle or to his philosophy. "Aristotelic usage." Sir W. Hamilton.

ARISTOTLE'S LANTERN n.

The five united jaws and accessory ossicles of certain sea urchins.

Orig., a printing-out process using paper coated with silver chloride in gelatin; now, any such process using silver salts in either collodion or gelatin; also, a print so made.

Pertaining a short beard or awn. Gray.