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

Spontaneous generation; abiogenesis.

The science of, or a treatise on, first principles. Fleming.

The division that includes man alone. R. Owen.

A principal enemy. Specifically, Satan, the grand adversary of mankind. Milton.

Relating to the archenteron; as, archenteric invagination.

The primitive enteron or undifferentiated digestive sac of a gastrula or other embryo. See Illust. under Invagination.

Same as Archæology, etc.

A bowman, one skilled in the use of the bow and arrow.

A small fish (Toxotes jaculator), of the East Indies; -- so called from its ejecting drops of water from its mouth at its prey. The name is also applied to Chætodon rostratus.

A female archer. Markham.

The art or skill of an archer.

Archers, or bowmen, collectively. Let all our archery fall off In wings of shot a-both sides of the van. Webster (1607).

pl. of Arch, n. Court of arches, or Arches Court (Eng. Law), the court of appeal of the Archbishop of Canterbury, whereof the judge, who sits as deputy to the archbishop, is called the Dean of the Arches, because he anciently held his court in the church of St. Mary-le-Bow (de arcubus). It is now held in Westminster. M…

Of or pertaining to an archetype; consisting a model (real or ideal) or pattern; original. "One archetypal mind." Gudworth.

With reference to the archetype; originally. "Parts archetypally distinct." Dana.

l of a work; or the model from which a thing is made or formed. The House of Commons, the archetype of all the representative assemblies which now meet. Macaulay. Types and shadows of that glorious archetype that was to come into the world. South.

Relating to an archetype; archetypal.

The vital principle or force which (according to the Paracelsians) presides over the growth and continuation of living beings; the anima mundi or plastic power of the old philosophers. [Obs.] Johnson.

A prefix signifying chief, arch; as, architect, archiepiscopal. In Biol. and Anat. it usually means primitive, original, ancestral; as, archipterygium, the primitive fin or wing.