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Warm, applied to the passions and affections; passionate; fervent; zealous; vehement; as, ardent love, feelings, zeal, hope, temper. An ardent and impetuous race. Macaulay.

r, a burner for an Argand lamp, or a gas burner in which the principle of that lamp is applied.

A fish of Europe (Maurolicus Pennantii) with silvery scales. The name is also applied to various fishes of the genus Argentina.

Producing clay; -- applied to such earths as abound with argil. Kirwan.

adge of wit and an argument of parts for a man to commence atheist, and to cast off all belief of providence, all awe and reverence for religion South.

One who adheres to or believes the doctrines of Arius. Mosheim.

One who favors an aristocracy as a form of government, or believes the aristocracy should govern. His whole family are accused of being aristocrats. Romilly.

A marine bivalve shell belonging to the genus Arca and its allies.

ommon army worm of the northern United States is Leucania unipuncta. The name is often applied to other related species, as the cotton worm.

nd 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.]

red fabric; especially, a screen or hangings of heavy cloth with interwoven figures. Stateliest couches, with rich arras spread. Cowper. Behind the arras I'll convey myself. Shak.

rder; an orderly collection; hence, a body of soldiers. A gallant array of nobles and cavaliers. Prescott.

One who arrays. In some early English statutes, applied to an officer who had care of the soldiers' armor, and who saw them duly accoutered.

The sharp edge or salient angle formed by two surfaces meeting each other, whether plane or curved; -- applied particularly to the edges in moldings, and to the raised edges which separate the flutings in a Doric column. P. Cyc. Arris fillet, a triangular piece of wood used to raise the slates of a roof against a chimn…

or estimation; giving one's self an undue degree of importance; assuming; haughty; -- applied to persons. Arrogant Winchester, that haughty prelate. Shak.

Learning; study; applied knowledge, science, or letters. [Archaic] So vast is art, so narrow human wit. Pope.

with a dilated, imbricated, and prickly involucre. The head (to which the name is also applied) is composed of numerous oval scales, inclosing the florets, sitting on a broad receptacle, which, with the fleshy base of the scales, is much esteemed as an article of food.

at happened in this article of good breeding. Addison. This last article will hardly be believed. De Foe.

A product of human workmanship; -- applied esp. to the simpler products of aboriginal art as distinguished from natural objects.

gems, salts, minerals, fountains, flowers. Artificial strife Lives in these touches, livelier than life. Shak.