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Preparatory proceeding or measure; preparation; as, we have made arrangement for receiving company.

A rude apparatus for pulverizing ores, esp. those containing free gold.

Destitute of a true root, as a parasitical plant.

curved; -- applied particularly to the edges in moldings, and to the raised edges which separate the flutings in a Doric column. P. Cyc. Arris fillet, a triangular piece of wood used to raise the slates of a roof against a chimney or wall, to throw off the rain. Gwilt. -- Arris gutter, a gutter of a V form fixed to th…

a standing committee of the Scottish Parliament to whom was intrusted the drafting and preparation of the acts, or bills for laws. -- The Thirty-nine Articles, statements (thirty-nine in number) of the tenets held by the Church of England.

Expressed in articles or in separate items or particulars. [Archaic] Bacon.

With distinct utterance of the separate sounds.

A parasitic nematoid worm, espec. the roundworm, Ascaris lumbricoides, often occurring in the human intestine and allied species found in domestic animals; also commonly applied to the pinworm (Oxyuris), often troublesome to children and aged persons.

Pertaining to, or derived, asparagine; as, aspartic acid.

An apparatus for passing air or gases through or over certain liquids or solids, or for exhausting a closed vessel, by means of suction.

Any article or separable part of one's assets.

To connect or place together in thought. He succeeded in associating his name inseparably with some names which will last an long as our language. Macaulay.

To separate and distribute into classes, as things of a like kind, nature, or quality, or which are suited to a like purpose; to classify; as, to assort goods.

Apart; separate from each other; into parts; in two; separately; into or in different pieces or places. I took my staff, even Beauty, and cut it asunder. Zech. xi. 10. As wide asunder as pole and pole. Froude.

To stand as an equivalent; to make reparation, compensation, or amends, for an offense or a crime. The murderer fell, and blood atoned for blood. Pope. The ministry not atoning for their former conduct by any wise or popular measure. Junius.

The act or process of separating mingled gases of unequal diffusibility by transmission through porous substances.

Separation by atmolysis.

To subject to atmolysis; to separate by atmolysis.

An apparatus for effecting atmolysis.

Satisfaction or reparation made by giving an equivalent for an injury, or by doing of suffering that which will be received in satisfaction for an offense or injury; expiation; amends; -- with for. Specifically, in theology: The expiation of sin made by the obedience, personal suffering, and death of Christ. When a man…