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r advancing near. "The approach of summer." Horsley. A nearer approach to the human type. Owen.

gee and perigee of the moon. The more distant is called the higher apsis; the other, the lower apsis; and the line joining them, the line of apsides.

y 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 poisoning, made by an Italian woman named Tofana, in the middle of the 17th century, who is said to have poisoned more th…

One well versed in the Arabic language or literature; also, formerly, one who followed the Arabic system of surgery.

Fit for plowing or tillage; -- hence, often applied to land which has been plowed or tilled.

Any person who has the power of judging and determining, or ordaining, without control; one whose power of deciding and governing is not limited. For Jove is arbiter of both to man. Cowper.

The award of arbitrators. Cowell.

ll or caprice, and therefore conveying a notion of a tendency to abuse the possession of power. Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused licentiousness. Washington.

One who has the power of deciding or prescribing without control; a ruler; a governor. Though Heaven be shut, And Heaven's high Arbitrators sit secure. Milton. Masters of their own terms and arbitrators of a peace. Addison.

work formed of, or covered with, vines, branches of trees, or other plants, for shade; a bower. Sir P. Sidney.

A small tree or shrub. [Obs.] Spenser. Among thick-woven arborets, and flowers Imbordered on each bank. Milton.

One who makes trees his study, or who is versed in the knowledge of trees. Howell.

ailing plant of the Heath family (Epigæa repens), having white or usually rose- colored flowers with a delicate fragrance, growing in small axillary clusters, and appearing early in the spring; in New England known as mayflower; -- called also ground laurel. Gray.

Any curvature in the form of an arch; as, the arch of the aorta. "Colors of the showery arch." Milton. Triumphal arch, a monumental structure resembling an arched gateway, with one or more passages, erected to commemorate a triumph.

The earliest period in geological period, extending up to the Lower Silurian. It includes an Azoic age, previous to the appearance of life, and an Eozoic age, including the earliest forms of life.

Of supreme chemical powers. [R.] "The archchemic sun." Milton.

lidium or female organ in the higher cryptogamic plants, corresponding to the pistil in flowering plants.

The division that includes man alone. R. Owen.

) presides over the growth and continuation of living beings; the anima mundi or plastic power of the old philosophers. [Obs.] Johnson.

That form of episcopacy in which the chief power is in the hands of archbishops.