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The hollow beneath the junction of the arm and shoulder; the axilla.

See Aragonite.

d away; seized or possessed, as a demoniac; raving; mad; crack-brained. [Obs.] Odd, arreptitious, frantic extravagances. Howell.

A salt formed by the union of arsenious acid with a base.

A mineral of a tin-white color and metallic luster, containing arsenic, sulphur, and iron; -- also called arsenical pyrites and mispickel.

Inflammation of an artery or arteries. Dunglison.

Of or pertaining to arthritis; gouty. Cowper.

Any inflammation of the joints, particularly the gout.

Chondritis of a joint.

The quality or appearance of being artificial; that which is artificial.

One of a sect in the primitive church, who celebrated the Lord's Supper with bread and cheese, alleging that the first oblations of men not only of the fruit of the earth, but of their flocks. [Gen. iv. 3, 4.]

A collection of serous fluid in the cavity of the abdomen; dropsy of the peritoneum. Dunglison.

Of, pertaining to, or affected by, ascites; dropsical.

Supplemental; not inherent or original; adscititious; additional; assumed. Homer has been reckoned an ascititious name. Pope.

Added; additional. [Obs.] An ascriptitious and supernumerary God. Farindon.

The quality of being asinine; stupidity combined with obstinacy.

Want of appetite; loathing of food.

Roughness of surface; unevenness; -- opposed to smoothness. "The asperities of dry bodies." Boyle.

Asphaltic.

pplication or attention, particularly to some business or enterprise; diligence. I have, with much pains and assiduity, qualified myself for a nomenclator. Addison.