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ARPENT; ARPEN n.
Formerly, a measure of land in France, varying in different parts of the country. The arpent of Paris was 4,088 sq. yards, or nearly five sixths of an English acre. The woodland arpent was about 1 acre, 1 rood, 1 perch, English.
ARPENTATOR n.
The Anglicized form of the French arpenteur, a land surveyor. [R.]
ARPINE n.
An arpent. [Obs.] Webster (1623).
ARQUATED a.
Shaped like a bow; arcuate; curved. [R.]
ARQUEBUS; ARQUEBUSE n.
A sort of hand gun or firearm a contrivance answering to a trigger, by which the burning match was applied. The musket was a later invention. [Written also harquebus.]
ARQUEBUSADE n. 2 definitions
The shot of an arquebus. Ash.
ARQUEBUSIER n.
A soldier armed with an arquebus. Soldiers armed with guns, of whatsoever sort or denomination, appear to have been called arquebusiers. E. Lodge.
ARQUIFOUX n.
Same as Alquifou.
ARRACH n.
See Orach.
ARRACK n.
A name in the East Indies and the Indian islands for all ardent spirits. Arrack is often distilled from a fermented mixture of rice, molasses, and palm wine of the cocoanut tree or the date palm, etc.
ARRAGONITE n.
See Aragonite.
ARRAIGN v. 4 definitions
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.
ARRAIGNER n.
One who arraigns. Coleridge.
ARRAIGNMENT n. 2 definitions
The act of arraigning, or the state of being arraigned; the act of calling and setting a prisoner before a court to answer to an indictment or complaint.
ARRAIMENT; ARRAYMENT n.
Clothes; raiment. [Obs.]
ARRANGE v. 2 definitions
To put in proper order; to dispose (persons, or parts) in the manner intended, or best suited for the purpose; as, troops arranged for battle. So [they] came to the market place, and there he arranged his men in the streets. Berners. [They] were beginning to arrange their hampers. Boswell. A mechanism previously arrang…
ARRANGEMENT n. 6 definitions
The act of arranging or putting in an orderly condition; the state of being arranged or put in order; disposition in suitable form.
ARRANGER n.
One who arranges. Burke.
ARRANT a. 2 definitions
r preëminently bad; thorough or downright, in a bad sense; shameless; unmitigated; as, an arrant rogue or coward. I discover an arrant laziness in my soul. Fuller.
ARRANTLY adv.
Notoriously, in an ill sense; infamously; impudently; shamefully. L'Estrange.
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