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Decree; direction; established order or constitution; as, to submit to the divine appointments. According to the appointment of the priests. Ezra vi. 9.

to put questions. Formerly, in the English Court of Exchequer, an officer who audited the sheriffs' accounts.

Containing or expressing approbation; commendatory. Sheldon.

Capable of being adapted. [Obs.] Sherwood.

A shelly plate found in the terminal chambers of ammonite shells. Some authors consider them to be jaws; others, opercula.

A crossbow, consisting of a steel bow set in a shaft of wood, furnished with 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.

ion of a tendency to abuse the possession of power. Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused licentiousness. Washington.

A tree, as distinguished from a shrub.

Furnished with an arbor; lined with trees. "An arboreal walk." Pollok.

Furnished with an arcade.

turesque district of Greece, in the heart of the Peloponnesus, whose people were distinguished for contentment and rural happiness.

Hence: Any sea or broad sheet of water interspersed with many islands or with a group of islands.

Furnished with an architrave. Cowper.

A palm tree (Saguerus saccharifer) which furnishes sago, wine, and fibers for ropes; the gomuti palm.

A species of wild sheep (Ovis ammon, or O. argali), remarkable for its large horns. It inhabits the mountains of Siberia and central Asia.

Whiteness; anything that is white. The polished argent of her breast. Tennyson.

Europe (Maurolicus Pennantii) with silvery scales. The name is also applied to various fishes of the genus Argentina.

A genus of Cephalopoda. The shell is called paper nautilus or paper sailor.

A genus of copepod Crustacea, parasitic of fishes; a fish louse. See Branchiura.

Matter for question; business in hand. [Obs.] Sheathed their swords for lack of argument. Shak.