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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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A very fine sort of Persian silk.

A genus of venomous ticks which attack men and animals. The famous Persian Argas, also called Miana bug, is A. Persicus; that of Central America, called talaje by the natives, is A. Talaje.

ARRAS n. 2 definitions

reen or hangings of heavy cloth with interwoven figures. Stateliest couches, with rich arras spread. Cowper. Behind the arras I'll convey myself. Shak.

A material of wool or silk used for working the figures in embroidery.

A rude apparatus for pulverizing ores, esp. those containing free gold.

ARRASWISE; ARRASWAYS adv.

Placed in such a position as to exhibit the top and two sides, the corner being in front; -- said of a rectangular form. Encyc. Brit. Cussans.

An herbaceous grasslike plant (Triglochin palustre, and other species) with pods opening so as to suggest barbed arrowheads.

ARTHROGASTRA n.

A division of the Arachnida, having the abdomen annulated, including the scorpions, harvestmen, etc.; pedipalpi.

ATAMASCO LILY n.

See under Lily.

ATHANASIA; ATHANASY n.

The quality of being deathless; immortality.

Of or pertaining to Athanasius, bishop of Alexandria in the 4th century. Athanasian creed, a formulary, confession, or exposition of faith, formerly supposed to have been drawn up by Athanasius; but this opinion is now rejected, and the composition is ascribed by some to Hilary, bishop of Arles (5th century). It is a s…

ATLAS n. 8 definitions

A work in which subjects are exhibited in a tabular from or arrangement; as, an historical atlas.

ATLAS POWDER n.

A blasting powder or dynamite composed of nitroglycerin, wood fiber, sodium nitrate, and magnesium carbonate.

ATTAGAS; ATTAGEN n.

A species of sand grouse (Syrrghaptes Pallasii) found in Asia and rarely in southern Europe.

To take to task; to blame. Shak.

To taste or cause to taste. [Obs.] Chaucer.

AUSTRALASIAN a. 2 definitions

Of or pertaining to Australasia; as, Australasian regions. -- n.

place; -- said of rocks having a broken or brecciated structure due to crushing, in contrast to those of brecciated materials brought from a distance.

The use of a word of common or general signification for the name of a particular thing; as, "He has gone to town," for, "He has gone to London."

Of or pertaining to autoplasty.