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Usually a curved member made up of separate wedge-shaped solids, with the joints between them disposed in the direction of the radii of the curve; used to support the wall or other weight above an opening. In this sense arches are segmental, round (i. e., semicircular), or pointed.

The group of moldings, or other architectural member, above and on both sides of a door or other opening, especially if square in form.

The architectural member surrounding the curved opening of an arch, corresponding to the architrave in the case of a square opening.

A member of the Areopagus. Acts xvii. 34.

One of the individual members of a compound ascidian. See Ascidioidea.

A member of an assembly, especially of the lower branch of a state legislature.

or fine upon (a person, community, estate, or income); to tax; as, the club assessed each member twenty- five cents.

ing an amount to be paid; as, an assessment of damages, or of taxes; an assessment of the members of a club.

Admitted to some, but not to all, rights and privileges; as, an associate member.

not fitted or adjusted. -- A*syn"ar*tet"ic, a. Asynartete verse (Pros.), a verse of two members, having different rhythms; as when the first consists of iambuses and the second of trochees.

A member of one of the religious orders called after St. Augustine; an Austin friar.

At Oxford, England, a member of a hall, distinguished from a collegian. Chalmers.

A member of the conservative party in the Church of Scotland in the latter part of the 18th century.

he term is now applied to a council of the war department of the Austrian empire, and the members of different provincial chanceries of that empire are called aulic councilors. P. Cyc.

Foreign troops in the service of a nation at war; (rarely in sing.), a member of the allied or subsidiary force.

Any of a large class of compounds characterized by a five- membered ring which contains an atom of nitrogen and at least one other noncarbon atom (nitrogen, oxygen, sulphur). The prefixes furo-, thio, and pyrro-are used to distinguish three subclasses of azoles, which may be regarded as derived respectively from furfur…

In the companies of London tradesmen, one not yet admitted to wear the livery; a junior member. [Obs.]

A member of the sect of the Babis consisting of the adherents of Baha (Mirza Husain Ali, entitled "Baha 'u 'llah," or, "the Splendor of God"), the elder half brother of Mirza Yahya of Nur, who succeeded the Bab as the head of the Babists. Baha in 1863 declared himself the supreme prophet of the sect, and became its rec…

One who conducts the business of banking; one who, individually, or as a member of a company, keeps an establishment for the deposit or loan of money, or for traffic in money, bills of exchange, etc.

osed by the Irish and Scotch peasantry to warn a family of the speedy death of one of its members, by wailing or singing in a mournful voice under the windows of the house.