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Argillaceous; clayey. Sir T. Browne.

d applying them to the case in discussion; the operation of inferring propositions, not known or admitted as true, from facts or principles known, admitted, or proved to be true. Which manner of argumentation, how false and naught it is, . . . every man that hath with perceiveth. Tyndale.

A soothsaying; a foretelling. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

his temper or habits; a proud or haughty person. A born aristocrat, bred radical. Mrs. Browning.

Instruments or weapons of offense or defense. He lays down his arms, but not his wiles. Milton. Three horses and three goodly suits of arms. Tennyson.

To drive or scare off by some exclamation. [R.] "Whiskered cats arointed flee." Mrs. Browning.

rcuit; here and there within the surrounding space; all about; as, to travel around from town to town.

Notoriously or preëminently bad; thorough or downright, in a bad sense; shameless; unmitigated; as, an arrant rogue or coward. I discover an arrant laziness in my soul. Fuller.

To assume, or claim as one's own, unduly, proudly, or presumptuously; to make undue claims to, from vanity or baseless pretensions to right or merit; as, the pope arrogated dominion over kings. He arrogated to himself the right of deciding dogmatically what was orthodox doctrine. Macaulay.

That part of a foot where the ictus is put, or which is distinguished from the rest (known as the thesis) of the foot by a greater stress of voice. Hermann.

ugwort, southernwood, and wormwood. Of these A. absinthium, or common wormwood, is well known, and A. tridentata is the sage brush of the Rocky Mountain region.

uch art, skill, or contrivance; dexterous; skillful. He [was] too artful a writer to set down events in exact historical order. Dryden.

Pertaining to the joints. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

A bacterial resting cell, -- formerly considered a spore, but now known to occur even in endosporous bacteria. -- Ar`thro*spor"ic (#), Ar*thros"po*rous (#), a.

y article; in distinct particulars; in detail; definitely. Paley. I had articulately set down in writing our points. Fuller.

oward the zenith; above the horizon. The constellation . . . about that time ascendant. Browne.

o that which arises, as from distillation. Vaporous ascensions from the stomach. Sir T. Browne. Ascension Day, the Thursday but one before Whitsuntide, the day on which commemorated our Savior's ascension into heaven after his resurrection; -- called also Holy Thursday. -- Right ascension (Astron.), that degree of the…

A genus of simple ascidians, which formerly included most of the known species. It is sometimes used as a name for the Ascidioidea, or for all the Tunicata.

are collected, and which constitutes the mature fructification. The different forms are known in mycology under distinct names. Called also spore fruit.

Of the color of ashes; a whitish gray or brownish gray.