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ooked; prominent, like the beak of an eagle; -- applied particularly to the nose Terribly arched and aquiline his nose. Cowper.

The country of Arabia. [Archaic & Poetic]

Capable of being decided by arbitration; determinable. [Archaic] Bp. Hall.

Judgment by an arbiter; authoritative determination. [Archaic]

A curvature in the shape of a circular arc or an arch; as, the colored arc (the rainbow); the arc of Hadley's quadrant.

A series of arches with the columns or piers which support them, the spandrels above, and other necessary appurtenances; sometimes open, serving as an entrance or to give light; sometimes closed at the back (as in the cut) and forming a decorative feature.

Having the form of an arch; curved.

To decree; to adjudge. [Archaic] Ld. Lytton.

Silver, or money. [Archaic]

Exhausted of moisture; parched with heat; dry; barren. "An arid waste." Thomson.

welve signs in the zodiac, which the sun enters at the vernal equinox, about the 21st of March.

eme power is vested in the principal persons of a state, or in a privileged order; an oligarchy. The aristocracy of Venice hath admitted so many abuses, trough the degeneracy of the nobles, that the period of its duration seems approach. Swift.

The larva of a small two-winged fly (Sciara), which marches in large companies, in regular order. See Cotton worm, under Cotton.

To please; to gratify. [Archaic] B. Jonson. Above all thy rarities, old Oxenford, what do most arride and solace me are thy repositories of moldering learning. Lamb.

To happen or occur. [Archaic] Happy! to whom this glorious death arrives. Waller.

A nutritive starch obtained from the rootstocks of Maranta arundinacea, and used as food, esp. for children an invalids; also, a similar starch obtained from other plants, as various species of Maranta and Curcuma.

Learning; study; applied knowledge, science, or letters. [Archaic] So vast is art, so narrow human wit. Pope.

Performed with, or characterized by, art or skill. [Archaic] "Artful strains." "Artful terms." Milton.

Precise point of time; moment. [Obs. or Archaic] This fatal news coming to Hick's Hall upon the article of my Lord Russell's trial, was said to have had no little influence on the jury and all the bench to his prejudice. Evelyn.

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