Search the Dictionary

Webster’s Dictionary (1828)



2,818 words match “ARC”

APERTLY adv.
Openly; clearly. [Archaic]
APERTNESS n.
Openness; frankness. [Archaic]
APOLLO n.
A deity among the Greeks and Romans. He was the god of light and day (the "sun god"), of archery, prophecy, medicine, poetry, and music, etc., and was represented as the model of manly grace and beauty; -- called also Phébus. The Apollo Belvedere, a celebrated statue of Apollo in the Belvedere gallery of the Vatican pa…
APOTELESMATIC a.
Relating to the casting of horoscopes. [Archaic] Whewell.
APPEAL v.
To summon; to challenge. [Archaic] Man to man will I appeal the Norman to the lists. Sir W. Scott.
APPREHEND v.
To take or seize; to take hold of. [Archaic] We have two hands to apprehended it. Jer. Taylor.
APPROACH v.
To bring near; to cause to draw near; to advance. [Archaic] Boyle.
APPROACHING n.
ot of one tree into another, without cutting it from the parent stock; -- called, also, inarching and grafting by approach.
APPROACHMENT n.
Approach. [Archaic] Holland.
APPROOF n.
Trial; proof. [Archaic] Shak.
APPROPINQUATE v.
To approach. [Archaic] Ld. Lytton.
APPROPRIATE v.
To make suitable; to suit. [Archaic] Paley.
APPROVANCE n.
Approval. [Archaic] Thomson.
APPUI n.
upport.] (Mil.) (a) A given point or body, upon which troops are formed, or by which are marched in line or column. (b) An advantageous defensive support, as a castle, morass, wood, declivity, etc.
AQUA FORTIS n.
Nitric acid. [Archaic]
AQUILINE a.
ooked; prominent, like the beak of an eagle; -- applied particularly to the nose Terribly arched and aquiline his nose. Cowper.
ARABY n.
The country of Arabia. [Archaic & Poetic]
ARBITRABLE a.
Capable of being decided by arbitration; determinable. [Archaic] Bp. Hall.
ARBITRAGE n.
Judgment by an arbiter; authoritative determination. [Archaic]
AREAD; AREED v.
To decree; to adjudge. [Archaic] Ld. Lytton.
← Previous Page 32 of 141 Next →