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as a right of way, or other easement to land; a right of common to pasture, an outhouse, barn, garden, or orchard, to a house or messuage. In a strict legal sense, land can never pass as an appurtenance to land. Tomlins. Bouvier. Burrill. Globes . . . provided as appurtenances to astronomy. Bacon. The structure of the…

Containing copses of trees or shrubs; covered with shrubs. Bartram.

An alkaloid, first found in white cinchona bark.

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

An earnest; earnest money; money paid to bind a bargain. [Scot.] Arles penny, earnest money given to servants. Kersey.

Iron bars or framing employed for the consolidation of a building, as in sustaining slender columns, holding up canopies, etc. Oxf. Gloss.

regular or active army, in which soldiers serve continuously with the colors and live in barracks or cantonments when not in the field; (2) the reserves of this army, in which the soldiers, while remaining constantly subject to a call to the colors, live at their homes, being summoned more or less frequently to report…

A barbarous word used by the old chemists to designate various medical remedies. [Obs.]

To call or set as a prisoner at the bar of a court to answer to the matter charged in an indictment or complaint. Blackstone.

A missile weapon of offense, slender, pointed, and usually feathered and barbed, to be shot from a bow. Broad arrow. (a) An arrow with a broad head. (b) A mark placed upon British ordnance and government stores, which bears a rude resemblance to a broad arrowhead.

asslike plant (Triglochin palustre, and other species) with pods opening so as to suggest barbed arrowheads.

The elevation of the hand, or that part of the bar at which it is raised, in beating time; the weak or unaccented part of the bar; - - opposed to thesis. Moore.

To agree by articles; to stipulate; to bargain; to covenant. [R.] Then he articled with her that he should go away when he pleased. Selden.

To shame. [R.] Barrow.

Sharpness; disagreeableness; difficulty. The acclivities and asperities of duty. Barrow.

when on horseback; with the legs stretched wide apart; astraddle. Placed astride upon the bars of the palisade. Sir W. Scott. Glasses with horn bows sat astride on his nose. Longfellow.

Asymmetrical. [Obs.] Barrow.

Incommensurability. [Obs.] Barrow.

as, atheistic doctrines, opinions, or books. Atheistical explications of natural effects. Barrow.

Anterior; cephalic. Barclay.