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overnment. Dryden. Arbitrary constant, Arbitrary function (Math.), a quantity of function that is introduced into the solution of a problem, and to which any value or form may at will be given, so that the solution may be made to meet special requirements. -- Arbitrary quantity (Math.), one to which any value can be a…

ent; the resemblance to a tree in minerals, or crystallizations, or groups of crystals in that form; as, the arborescence produced by precipitating silver.

A chief chamberlain; -- an officer of the old German empire, whose office was similar to that of the great chamberlain in England.

The division that includes man alone. R. Owen.

etype of all the representative assemblies which now meet. Macaulay. Types and shadows of that glorious archetype that was to come into the world. South.

That form of episcopacy in which the chief power is in the hands of archbishops.

An extinct genus of Bryzoa characteristic of the subcarboniferous rocks. Its form is that of a screw.

The primitive form of fin, like that of Ceratodus.

The lower division of an entablature, or that part which rests immediately on the column, esp. in classical architecture. See Column.

The grand marshal of the old German empire, a dignity that to the Elector of Saxony.

A group of the Carnivora, that includes the bears, weasels, etc.

Of or pertaining to an arc. Arcual measure of an angle (Math.), that in which the unit angle has its measuring arc equal to the radius of the circle.

Hot or burning; causing a sensation of burning; fiery; as, ardent spirits, that is, distilled liquors; an ardent fever.

face 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.

That part of moral philosophy which treats of virtue, its nature, and the means of attaining to it.

me. Argand burner, a burner for an Argand lamp, or a gas burner in which the principle of that lamp is applied.

attack men and animals. The famous Persian Argas, also called Miana bug, is A. Persicus; that of Central America, called talaje by the natives, is A. Talaje.

Whiteness; anything that is white. The polished argent of her breast. Tennyson.

The independent variable upon whose value that of a function depends. Brande & C.

ed to be true. Which manner of argumentation, how false and naught it is, . . . every man that hath with perceiveth. Tyndale.