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Silver, or money. [Archaic]

Exhausted of moisture; parched with heat; dry; barren. "An arid waste." Thomson.

welve signs in the zodiac, which the sun enters at the vernal equinox, about the 21st of March.

eme power is vested in the principal persons of a state, or in a privileged order; an oligarchy. The aristocracy of Venice hath admitted so many abuses, trough the degeneracy of the nobles, that the period of its duration seems approach. Swift.

A marine bivalve shell belonging to the genus Arca and its allies.

The larva of a small two-winged fly (Sciara), which marches in large companies, in regular order. See Cotton worm, under Cotton.

rtant species (Arnica montana), native of the mountains of Europe, used in medicine as a narcotic and stimulant.

Shaped like a bow; arcuate; curved. [R.]

To please; to gratify. [Archaic] B. Jonson. Above all thy rarities, old Oxenford, what do most arride and solace me are thy repositories of moldering learning. Lamb.

To happen or occur. [Archaic] Happy! to whom this glorious death arrives. Waller.

A nutritive starch obtained from the rootstocks of Maranta arundinacea, and used as food, esp. for children an invalids; also, a similar starch obtained from other plants, as various species of Maranta and Curcuma.

Learning; study; applied knowledge, science, or letters. [Archaic] So vast is art, so narrow human wit. Pope.

Performed with, or characterized by, art or skill. [Archaic] "Artful strains." "Artful terms." Milton.

Precise point of time; moment. [Obs. or Archaic] This fatal news coming to Hick's Hall upon the article of my Lord Russell's trial, was said to have had no little influence on the jury and all the bench to his prejudice. Evelyn.

Expressed in articles or in separate items or particulars. [Archaic] Bacon.

a number of pieces of ordnance mounted on carriages, with all their furniture, ready for marching.

e man has the ascendant over another. Chievres had acquired over the mind of the young monarch the ascendant not only of a tutor, but of a parent. Robertson.

ing of Aries, which rises with a star, or other celestial body, in a right sphere; or the arc of the equator intercepted between the first point of Aries and that point of the equator that comes to the meridian with the star; -- expressed either in degrees or in time. -- Oblique ascension (Astron.), an arc of the equa…

e mind; to free from obscurity, doubt, or change; to make sure of; to fix; to determine. [Archaic] The divine law . . . ascertaineth the truth. Hooker. The very deferring [of his execution] shall increase and ascertain the condemnation. Jer. Taylor. The ministry, in order to ascertain a majority . . . persuaded the que…

A sort of cupboard, or case, to contain bows and other implements of archery.