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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.

An idiom of the Aramaic.

See Araneina.

Of or pertaining to the Araneina or spiders. -- n.

Having the form of a spider. Kirby.

The order of Arachnida that includes the spiders.

Of the aspect of a spider's web; arachnoid.

Cobweblike; extremely thin and delicate, like a cobweb; as, the araneous membrane of the eye. See Arachnoid. Derham.

A bead of rough carnelian. Arangoes were formerly imported from Bombay for use in the African slave trade. McCulloch.

A large fresh-water food fish of South America.

The palm (or great black) cockatoo, of Australia (Microglossus aterrimus).

Goa powder.

Plowing; tillage. [R.] Lands are said to be in a state of aration when they are under tillage. Brande.

Contributing to tillage.

A genus of tall conifers of the pine family. The species are confined mostly to South America and Australia. The wood cells differ from those of other in having the dots in their lateral surfaces in two or three rows, and the dots of contiguous rows alternating. The seeds are edible.

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

h a string and a trigger, and a mechanical device for bending the bow. It served to throw arrows, darts, bullets, etc. [Written also arbalet and arblast.] Fosbroke.

A crossbowman. [Obs.] Speed.

A person appointed, or chosen, by parties to determine a controversy between them.

Capable of being decided by arbitration; determinable. [Archaic] Bp. Hall.