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

A material of wool or silk used for working the figures in embroidery.

A rude apparatus for pulverizing ores, esp. those containing free gold.

ion as to exhibit the top and two sides, the corner being in front; -- said of a rectangular form. Encyc. Brit. Cussans.

Obtained; seized. Spenser.

Order; a regular and imposing arrangement; disposition in regular lines; hence, order of battle; as, drawn up in battle array. Wedged together in the closest array. Gibbon.

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.

To or in the rear; behind; backwards. [Obs.] Spenser.

That which remains unpaid and overdue, after payment of a part; arrears. The old arrearages . . . being defrayed. Howell.

To direct. [Obs.] My supplication to you I arrect. Skelton.

Attentive, as a person listening. [Obs.] God speaks not the idle and unconcerned hearer, but to the vigilant and arrect. Smalridge.

An upright beam. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.

Producing males from unfertilized eggs, as certain wasps and bees.

nting, esp. a license to inclose land in a forest with a low hedge and a ditch, under a yearly rent.

The act of taking away. [Obs.] "This arreption was sudden." Bp. Hall.

natched away; seized or possessed, as a demoniac; raving; mad; crack-brained. [Obs.] Odd, arreptitious, frantic extravagances. Howell.

To stop; to check or hinder the motion or action of; as, to arrest the current of a river; to arrest the senses. Nor could her virtues the relentless hand Of Death arrest. Philips.

Arrest. [R.] The arrestation of the English resident in France was decreed by the National Convention. H. M. Williams.

The person in whose hands is the property attached by arrestment.

One who arrests.