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Determination; decision; arbitration. The arbitrament of time. Everett. Gladly at this moment would MacIvor have put their quarrel to personal arbitrament. Sir W. Scott.

A chief chamberlain; -- an officer of the old German empire, whose office was similar to that of the great chamberlain in England.

A lamp with a circular hollow wick and glass chimney which allow a current of air both inside and outside of the flame. Argand burner, a burner for an Argand lamp, or a gas burner in which the principle of that lamp is applied.

A solution of silver phosphate in an aqueous solution of ethylene diamine, used as an antiseptic astringent and as a disinfectant.

A body of forces equipped for war; -- used of a land or naval force. "The whole united armament of Greece." Glover.

An armory; a magazine or arsenal. [R.]

A sort of cupboard, or case, to contain bows and other implements of archery.

To shame. [R.] Barrow.

Affected by shame; abashed or confused by guilt, or a conviction or consciousness of some wrong action or impropriety. "I am ashamed to beg." Wyclif. All that forsake thee shall be ashamed. Jer. xvii. 13. I began to be ashamed of sitting idle. Johnson. Enough to make us ashamed of our species. Macaulay. An ashamed pers…

Bashfully. [R.]

The peculiar bitter substance, soft or liquid, and of a yellow color, produced when meat, bread, gum, sugar, starch, and the like, are roasted till they turn brown.

Of or pertaining to Assam, a province of British India, or to its inhabitants. -- n. sing. & pl.

An oxychloride of copper, usually in emerald-green prismatic crystals.

A hetman, or chief of the Cossacks.

See under Lily.

Not furnished with shields or beds for the spores, as the thallus of certain lichens.

Adamant. [Obs.] Written in the table of athamaunt. Chaucer.

Black, like ink; inky; atramental. [Obs.] Derham.

Of or pertaining to ink; inky; black, like ink; as, atramental galls; atramentous spots.

ike ink; suitable for making ink. Sulphate of iron (copperas, green vitriol) is called atramentarious, as being used in making ink.