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Having the appearance or quality of fire; fierce; glowing; shining; as, ardent eyes. Dryden.

ic lamps (white and red) is arranged vertically on a mast, and operated from a keyboard below.

reolations, as the wings of insects, the leaves of plants, or the receptacle of compound flowers.

A lamp with a circular hollow wick and glass chimney which allow a current of air both inside and outside of the flame. Argand burner, a burner for an Argand lamp, or a gas burner in which the principle of that lamp is applied.

or containing, silver; -- said of certain compounds of silver in which this metal has its lowest proportion; as, argentic chloride.

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

To come up from a lower to a higher position; to come above the horizon; to come up from one's bed or place of repose; to mount; to ascend; to rise; as, to arise from a kneeling posture; a cloud arose; the sun ariseth; he arose early in the morning.

A follower of Aristotle; a Peripatetic. See Peripatetic.

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

A piece of tallow placed in a cavity at the lower end of a sounding lead, to bring up the sand, shells, etc., of the sea bottom. Totten.

Of or pertaining to Arminius of his followers, or to their doctrines. See note under Arminian, n.

The hollow beneath the junction of the arm and shoulder; the axilla.

riods of drill and instraction, who are variously called home reserves (as in the table below), second, third, etc., line of defense (the regular army and its reserves ordinarily constituting the first line of defense), territorial forces, or the like. In countries where conscription prevails a soldier is supposed to s…

A letting or renting, esp. a license to inclose land in a forest with a low hedge and a ditch, under a yearly rent.

o come in progress by water, or by traveling on land; to reach by water or by land; -- followed by at (formerly sometimes by to), also by in and from. "Arrived in Padua." Shak. [Æneas] sailing with a fleet from Sicily, arrived . . . and landed in the country of Laurentum. Holland. There was no outbreak till the regimen…

A diseased condition produced by slow poisoning with arsenic.

Pertaining to, or derived from, arsenic, when having an equivalence next lower than the highest; as, arsenious acid.

boring into the earth till the instrument reaches water, which, from internal pressure, flows spontaneously like a fountain. They are usually of small diameter and often of great depth.

A bone in the base of the lower jaw of many birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fishes.

A cunning or artful fellow. [Obs.] B. Jonson.