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and protected cruisers from each other, except that the first have more or heavier armor than the second.

Anything which a man takes in his hand in anger, to strike or assault another with; an aggressive weapon. Cowell. Blackstone.

The wild buffalo of India (Bos, or Bubalus, arni), larger than the domestic buffalo and having enormous horns.

A sort of hand gun or firearm a contrivance answering to a trigger, by which the burning match was applied. The musket was a later invention. [Written also harquebus.]

en in the streets. Berners. [They] were beginning to arrange their hampers. Boswell. A mechanism previously arranged. Paley.

Tapestry; a rich figured fabric; especially, a screen or hangings of heavy cloth with interwoven figures. Stateliest couches, with rich arras spread. Cowper. Behind the arras I'll convey myself. Shak.

rrear of letters to write. J. D. Forbes. In arrear or In arrears, behind; backward; behindhand; in debt.

arrest the current of a river; to arrest the senses. Nor could her virtues the relentless hand Of Death arrest. Philips.

The person in whose hands is the property attached by arrestment.

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

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

The elevation of the hand, or that part of the bar at which it is raised, in beating time; the weak or unaccented part of the bar; - - opposed to thesis. Moore.

Of or pertaining to a main channel (resembling an artery), as a river, canal, or railroad. Arterial blood, blood which has been changed and vitalized (arterialized) during passage through the lungs.

ither venous or arterial blood from the heart. They have tricker and more muscular walls than veins, and are connected with them by capillaries.

A particular one of various things; as, an article of merchandise; salt is a necessary article. They would fight not for articles of faith, but for articles of food. Landor.

erized by division into words and syllables; as, articulate speech, sounds, words. Total changes of party and articulate opinion. Carlyle.

A handicraft; a trade; art of making. [Obs.]

An artistic worker; a mechanic or manufacturer; one whose occupation requires skill or knowledge of a particular kind, as a silversmith.

salts, minerals, fountains, flowers. Artificial strife Lives in these touches, livelier than life. Shak.

Munitions of war; implements for warfare, as slings, bows, and arrows. [Obs.] And Jonathan gave his artillery unto his lad. 1 Sam. xx. 40.