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r, conduit, or artificial channel for conveying water, especially one for supplying large cities with water.

rous in Syria, Northern Africa, etc. Street Arab, a homeless vagabond in the streets of a city, particularly and outcast boy or girl. Tylor. The ragged outcasts and street Arabs who are shivering in damp doorways. Lond. Sat. Rev.

A mineral identical in composition with calcite or carbonate of lime, but differing from it in its crystalline form and some of its physical characters.

Of or pertaining to Arcadia; pastoral; ideally rural; as, Arcadian simplicity or scenery.

t of Europe, to the first or body physician of princes and to the first physician of some cities. P. Cyc.

A metal-hubbed wheel of great strength and elasticity, esp. adapted for artillery carriages and motor cars.

A siliceous variety of calcite, or carbonate of lime, having a silvery-white, pearly luster, and a waving or curved lamellar structure.

Government by the best citizens.

To excite to action from a state of rest; to stir, or put in motion or exertion; to rouse; to excite; as, to arouse one from sleep; to arouse the dormant faculties. Grasping his spear, forth issued to arouse His brother, mighty sovereign on the host. Cowper. No suspicion was aroused. Merivale.

gue." Cowper. By the blue rushing of the arrowy Rhone. Byron. With arrowy vitalities, vivacities, and ingenuities. Carlyle.

n the perpetration of a crime, whether by advice or by assistance in the execution; complicity.

Free from guile, art, craft, or stratagem; characterized by simplicity and sincerity; sincere; guileless; ingenuous; honest; as, an artless mind; an artless tale. They were plain, artless men, without the least appearance of enthusiasm or credulity about them. Porteus. O, how unlike the complex works of man, Heaven's e…

The quality of being artless, or void of art or guile; simplicity; sincerity.

owever, to avail ourselves of the interest, transient as it may be, which this work has excited. Macaulay.

To request; to seek to obtain by words; to petition; to solicit; - - often with of, in the sense of from, before the person addressed. Ask counsel, we pray thee, of God. Judg. xviii. 5. If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you. John xv. 7.…

The act of inquiring or requesting; a petition; solicitation. Longfellow.

Roughness or harshness of sound; that quality which grates upon the ear; raucity.

nt and hostile manner; to assault; to molest; as, to assail a man with blows; to assail a city with artillery. No rude noise mine ears assailing. Cowper. No storm can now assail The charm he wears within. Keble.

Excess of boldness; impudence; audacity; as, his assurance is intolerable.

Very wonderful; of a nature to excite astonishment; as, an astonishing event.