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The act of forming reasons, making inductions, drawing conclusions, and applying them to the case in discussion; the operation of inferring propositions, not known or admitted as true, from facts or principles known, admitted, or proved to be true. Which manner of argumentation, how false and naught it is, . . . every…

Caviling; subtle disputation. [Obs.]

The act of butting like a ram; act of using a battering-ram. [Obs.] Bacon.

A soothsaying; a foretelling. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

Rustling in arms; resounding with arms. [Obs.]

Ammoniac. [Obs.]

a country raises, classifies, arranges, and equips its armed land forces. The usual divisions are: (1) A regular or 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 constantl…

The act of impregnating or secting with aroma.

See Aragonite.

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

The act of taking away. [Obs.] "This arreption was sudden." Bp. Hall.

Arrest. [R.] The arrestation of the English resident in France was decreed by the National Convention. H. M. Williams.

The act of arrogating, or making exorbitant claims; the act of taking more than one is justly entitled to. Hall.

A subdivision of a department. [France]

A gnawing. [Obs.] Bailey.

The malicious burning of a dwelling house or outhouse of another man, which by the common law is felony; the malicious and voluntary firing of a building or ship. Wharton.

An association for promoting art (esp. the arts of design), and giving encouragement to artists.

The process of converting venous blood into arterial blood during its passage through the lungs, oxygen being absorbed and carbonic acid evolved; -- called also aëration and hematosis.

Chondritis of a joint.

A joint or juncture between bones in the skeleton.