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mmonia. -- Aqua marine, or Aqua marina. Same as Aquamarine. -- Aqua regia. Etym: [L., royal water] (Chem.), a very corrosive fuming yellow liquid consisting of nitric and hydrochloric acids. It has the power of dissolving gold, the "royal" metal. -- Aqua Tofana, a fluid containing arsenic, and used for secret poison…

To tear up by the roots; to draw away. [Obs.] Wyatt.

uare of which each side is ten meters in length; 100 square meters, or about 119.6 square yards.

See Aryan.

n instrument or machine, projecting from a trunk, axis, or fulcrum; as, the arm of a steelyard.

d 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.

d in putrid meat infusions, occurring in peculiar masses, each of which is inclosed in a hyaline capsule and contains a large number of spherical micrococci.

Asphaltic. Bryant.

nce. Prescott. Too many people read this ribaldry with assent and admiration. Macaulay. Royal assent, in England, the assent of the sovereign to a bill which has passed both houses of Parliament, after which it becomes law.

Unremitting; assiduous. [Obs.] "Assiduate labor." Fabyan.

tion without the full rights or privileges of a regular member; as, an associate of the Royal Academy.

Any written or other legal evidence of the conveyance of property; a conveyance; a deed.

; astounded; astonished. [Archaic] Spenser. Thus Ellen, dizzy and astound. As sudden ruin yawned around. Sir W. Scott.

See Yataghan.

An Anglo-Saxon prince or nobleman; esp., the heir apparent or a prince of the royal family. [Written also Adeling and Ætheling.]

gures of men, used as columns to support an entablature; -- called also telamones. See Caryatides. Oxf. Gloss.

Of or pertaining to Mt. Atlas in Libya, and hence applied to the ocean which lies between Europe and Africa on the east and America on the west; as, the Atlantic Ocean (called also the Atlantic); the Atlantic basin; the Atlantic telegraph.

Hoisted up and ready to be swayed across; -- said of yards.

of a basilica or other church. The name was extended in the Middle Ages to the open churchyard or cemetery.

h great importance to a particular circumstance. Top this treasure a curse is attached. Bayard Taylor.