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an or primate) who superintends the conduct of the suffragan bishops in his province, and also exercises episcopal authority in his own diocese.

The consort of an archduke; also, a princess of the imperial family of Austria. See Archduke.

es; -- so called from its ejecting drops of water from its mouth at its prey. The name is also applied to Chætodon rostratus.

The plan or fundamental structure on which a natural group of animals or plants or their systems of organs are assumed to have been constructed; as, the vertebrate archetype.

The plant from which the dye is obtained. [Written also orchal and orchil.]

A chief priest; also, a kind of vicar, or a rural dean.

A widely used system of electric night signals in which a series of double electric lamps (white and red) is arranged vertically on a mast, and operated from a keyboard below.

A genus of venomous ticks which attack men and animals. The famous Persian Argas, also called Miana bug, is A. Persicus; that of Central America, called talaje by the natives, is A. Talaje.

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

Sulphide of silver; -- also called vitreous silver, or silver glance. It has a metallic luster, a lead-gray color, and is sectile like lead.

A large constellation in the southern hemisphere, called also Argo Navis. In modern astronomy it is replaced by its three divisions, Carina, Puppis, and Vela.

The subject matter of a discourse, writing, or artistic representation; theme or topic; also, an abstract or summary, as of the contents of a book, chapter, poem. You and love are still my argument. Shak. The abstract or argument of the piece. Jeffrey. [Shields] with boastful argument portrayed. Milton.…

or principles known, admitted, or proved to be true. Which manner of argumentation, how false and naught it is, . . . every man that hath with perceiveth. Tyndale.

A exterior covering, forming a false coat or appendage to a seed, as the loose, transparent bag inclosing the seed or the white water lily. The mace of the nutmeg is also an aril. Gray.

A false aril; an aril originating from the micropyle instead of from the funicle or chalaza of the ovule. The mace of the nutmeg is an arillode.

ride in gelatin; now, any such process using silver salts in either collodion or gelatin; also, a print so made.

tuary. In it Moses placed the two tables of stone containing the ten commandments. Called also the Ark of the Covenant.

The limb of the human body which extends from the shoulder to the hand; also, the corresponding limb of a monkey.

r used for the protection and defense of the body, esp. the protective outfit of some animals and plants.

A native or one of the people of Armenia; also, the language of the Armenians.