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A canal or passage; as, the aqueduct of Sylvius, a channel connecting the third and fourth ventricles of the brain.

To decide, or determine generally. South. There shall your swords and lances arbitrate The swelling difference of your settled hate. Shak.

elect vocabulary corresponding (in point of archaism and remoteness from ordinary use) to our Scriptural vocabulary. De Quincey.

cellor; -- an officer in the old German empire, who presided over the secretaries of the court.

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…

The place in which public records or historic documents are kept. Our words . . . . become records in God's court, and are laid up in his archives as witnesses. Gov. of Tongue.

The sunken space or court, giving ingress and affording light to the basement of a building.

The highest judicial court at Athens. Its sessions were held on Mars' Hill. Hence, any high court or tribunal

The name of the ship which carried Jason and his fifty-four companions to Colchis, in quest of the Golden Fleece.

A large ship, esp. a merchant vessel of the largest size. Where your argosies with portly sail . . . Do overpeer the petty traffickers. Shak.

contend in argument; to dispute; to reason; -- followed by with; as, you may argue with your friend without convincing him.

The subject matter of a discourse, writing, or artistic representation; theme or topic; also, an abstract or summary, as of the contents of a book, chapter, poem. You and love are still my argument. Shak. The abstract or argument of the piece. Jeffrey. [Shields] with boastful argument portrayed. Milton.…

r characterized by, argument; containing a process of reasoning; as, an argumentative discourse.

Pertaining to Arius, a presbyter of the church of Alexandria, in the fourth century, or to the doctrines of Arius, who held Christ to be inferior to God the Father in nature and dignity, though the first and noblest of all created beings. -- n.

A ruling body composed of the best citizens. [Obs.] In the Senate Right not our quest in this, I will protest them To all the world, no aristocracy. B. Jonson.

ce (literally or figuratively); not to allow to come into close contact or familiar intercourse. -- To work at arm's length, to work disadvantageously.

e state of being aroused. Whatever has associated itself with the arousal and activity of our better nature. Hare.

To call or set as a prisoner at the bar of a court to answer to the matter charged in an indictment or complaint. Blackstone.

ing, or the state of being arraigned; the act of calling and setting a prisoner before a court to answer to an indictment or complaint.