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Pertaining to Aram, or to the territory, inhabitants, language, or literature of Syria and Mesopotamia; Aramæan; -- specifically applied to the northern branch of the Semitic family of languages, including Syriac and Chaldee. -- n.

Relating to, or of the nature of, the Araucaria. The earliest conifers in geological history were mostly Araucarian. Dana.

Ancient; pertaining to the earliest period in geological history.

The territory of an archduke or archduchess. Ash.

Extent; scope; range; as, a wide area of thought. The largest area of human history and man's common nature. F. Harrison. Dry area. See under Dry.

A manufactory of arms, as rifles, muskets, pistols, bayonets, swords. [U.S.]

Preparatory proceeding or measure; preparation; as, we have made arrangement for receiving company.

ere fee, Arriere fief, a fee or fief dependent on a superior fee, or a fee held of a feudatory. -- Arriere vassal, the vassal of a vassal.

nter, etc.; also, one who prepares the shells, fuses, grenades, etc., in a military laboratory.

A depository for ashes.

Tending to asperse; defamatory; slanderous. -- As*pers"ive*ly, adv.

Positive; affirming confidently; affirmative; peremptory. In a confident and assertive form. Glanvill. As*sert"ive*ly, adv. -- As*sert"ive*ness, n.

strator liable to the creditors and legatees, so far as such goods or estate may extend. Story. Blackstone.

essing, great atrocity, great atrocity. Revelations . . . so atrocious that nothing in history approaches them. De Quincey.

An atrocious or extremely cruel deed. The atrocities which attend a victory. Macaulay.

austed its forces in the endeavor to rend the supernatural from its attachment to this history. I. Taylor.

ed for high attempts. Milton. Attempt to commit a crime (Law), such an intentional preparatory act as will apparently result, if not extrinsically hindered, in a crime which it was designed to effect. Wharton.

t of tasks, to an extreme point. I. Taylor. We may reject and reject till we attenuate history into sapless meagerness. Sir F. Palgrave.

-- Attic salt, Attic wit, a poignant, delicate wit, peculiar to the Athenians. -- Attic story. See Attic, n. -- Attic style, a style pure and elegant.

The act of a feudatory, vassal, or tenant, by which he consents, upon the alienation of an estate, to receive a new lord or superior, and transfers to him his homage and service; the agreement of a tenant to acknowledge the purchaser of the estate as his landlord. Burrill. Blackstone.