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s rocks (Geol.), those which are deposited from water and lie in strata, as opposed to volcanic rocks, which are of igneous origin; -- called also sedimentary rocks.

A carbohydrate, isomeric with cane sugar, contained in gum arabic, from which it is extracted as a white, amorphous substance.

A South American bird, of the genus Pleroglossius, allied to the toucans. There are several species.

A South American monkey, the ursine howler (Mycetes ursinus). See Howler, n., 2.

A bead of rough carnelian. Arangoes were formerly imported from Bombay for use in the African slave trade. McCulloch.

made to meet special requirements. -- Arbitrary quantity (Math.), one to which any value can be assigned at pleasure.

An evergreen tree of the cypress tribe, genus Thuja. The American species is the T. occidentalis.

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. Mozley & W.…

Of or pertaining to an archbishop; as, Canterbury is an archiepiscopal see.

several species of lichen (Roccella tinctoria, etc.), which grow on maritime rocks in the Canary and Cape Verd Islands, etc. Tomlinson.

To blame; to accuse; to charge with. [Obs.] Thoughts and expressions . . . which can be truly argued of obscenity, profaneness, or immorality. Dryden.

A squirrel-like Australian marsupial, a species of Petaurus. (c) A beautiful Brazilian toucan Ramphastos ariel).

A large flatboat used on Western American rivers to transport produce to market.

's length, the length of the arm. -- Arm's reach, reach of the arm; the distance the arm can reach. -- To go (or walk) arm in arm, to go with the arm or hand of one linked in the arm of another. "When arm in armwe went along." Tennyson. -- To keep at arm's length, to keep at a distance (literally or figuratively); n…

A genus of small isopod Crustacea that can roll themselves into a ball.

All the cannon and small arms collectively, with their equipments, belonging to a ship or a fortification.

mployed for the consolidation of a building, as in sustaining slender columns, holding up canopies, etc. Oxf. Gloss.

to Armenia. Armenian bole, a soft clayey earth of a bright red color found in Armenia, Tuscany, etc. -- Armenian stone. (a) The commercial name of lapis lazuli. (b) Emery.

As much as the arm can hold.

active army, in which soldiers serve continuously with the colors and live in barracks or cantonments when not in the field; (2) the reserves of this army, in which the soldiers, while remaining constantly subject to a call to the colors, live at their homes, being summoned more or less frequently to report for instruc…