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Pertaining to, or contained in, archives or records. Tooke.

Pertaining to, or situated under, the northern constellation called the Bear; northern; frigid; as, the arctic pole, circle, region, ocean; an arctic expedition, night, temperature.

Of or pertaining to arctic lands; as, the arctogeal fauna.

Of or pertaining to an arc. Arcual measure of an angle (Math.), that in which the unit angle has its measuring arc equal to the radius of the circle.

Of or pertaining to an area; as, areal interstices (the areas or spaces inclosed by the reticulate vessels of leaves).

Of or pertaining to sandstone; as, arenilitic mountains. Kirwan.

Pertaining to, or like, an areola; filled with interstices or areolæ. reolar tissue (Anat.), a form of fibrous connective tissue in which the fibers are loosely arranged with numerous spaces, or areolæ, between them.

Pertaining to, or measured by, an areometer.

Pertaining to the Areopagus. Mitford.

Pertaining to the ship Argo. See Argo.

Of or pertaining to silver; resembling, containing, or combined with, silver.

Pertaining to, derived from, or containing, silver; -- said of certain compounds of silver in which this metal has its lowest proportion; as, argentic chloride.

Pertaining to, or resembling, silver; made of, or sounding like, silver; silvery. Celestial Dian, goddess argentine. Shak.

Of, pertaining to, or containing, silver; -- said of certain silver compounds in which silver has a higher proportion than in argentic compounds; as, argentous chloride.

Pertaining to the ship Argo.

Pertaining to Argolis, a district in the Peloponnesus.

Of or pertaining to the Argonauts.

To argue pertinaciously. [Colloq.] Halliwell.

Of, pertaining to, or containing, argument; argumentative.

Pertaining to Arius, a presbyter of the church of Alexandria, in the fourth century, or to the doctrines of Arius, who held Christ to be inferior to God the Father in nature and dignity, though the first and noblest of all created beings. -- n.