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Consisting or conveying water or a watery fluid; as, aquiferous vessels; the aquiferous system.

Secreting water; -- applied to certain glands. Dunglison.

Of or pertaining to an order of plants, of which the genus Arum is the type.

Cobweblike; extremely thin and delicate, like a cobweb; as, the araneous membrane of the eye. See Arachnoid. Derham.

Arbitrary; despotic. [Obs.] -- Ar`bi*tra"*ri*ous*ly, adv. [Obs.]

Pertaining to, or growing on, trees; as, arboreous moss. Quincy.

Formed by trees. [Obs.] From under shady, arborous roof. Milton.

A dwarf tree, one in size between a shrub and a tree; a treelike shrub. Bradley.

Of or pertaining to a dwarf tree; shrublike. Da Costa.

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

The strawberry tree, a genus of evergreen shrubs, of the Heath family. It has a berry externally resembling the strawberry; the arbute tree. Trailing arbutus (Bot.), a creeping or trailing plant of the Heath family (Epigæa repens), having white or usually rose- colored flowers with a delicate fragrance, growing in smal…

Applied to a gastrula when the blastorope does not entirely up.

The vital principle or force which (according to the Paracelsians) presides over the growth and continuation of living beings; the anima mundi or plastic power of the old philosophers. [Obs.] Johnson.

The high priest of the Persian Magi, or worshipers of fire.

A fixed star of the first magnitude in the constellation Boötes.

See Arquebus. [Obs.]

Steep and lofty, in a literal sense; hard to climb. Those arduous pats they trod. Pope.

In an arduous manner; with difficulty or laboriousness.

The quality of being arduous; difficulty of execution.

Burning; ardent. [R.] Lo! further on, Where flames the arduous Spirit of Isidore. Cary.