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A female archer. Markham.

The higher order of clergy in Russia, including metropolitans, archbishops, and bishops. Pinkerton.

See Arear. [Obs.] Ellis.

the rear; -- chiefly used as an adjective in the sense of behind, rear, subordinate. Arriere fee, Arriere fief, a fee or fief dependent on a superior fee, or a fee held of a feudatory. -- Arriere vassal, the vassal of a vassal.

A proclamation, as of the French kings, calling not only their immediate feudatories, but the vassals of these feudatories, to take the field for war; also, the body of vassals called or liable to be called to arms, as in ancient France.

One of the body segments of Arthropods. See Arthrostraca. Packard.

applied also to the gaseous envelope of any celestial orb, or other body; as, the atmosphere of Mars.

The central mass of the aster in mitotic cell division; centrosphere.

A writ which lies for a party against whom judgment is recovered, but to whom good matter of discharge has subsequently accrued which could not have been availed of to prevent such judgment. Wharton.

Sour and astringent; rough to the state; having acerbity; as, an austere crab apple; austere wine.

Severely; rigidly; sternly. A doctrine austerely logical. Macaulay.

Harshness or astringent sourness to the taste; acerbity. Johnson.

A self-restoring coherer, as a microphonic detector.

A female avenger. [Obs.] Spenser.

One who badgers.

One of the somites (arthromeres) that make up the thorax of Arthropods. Packard.

The last reef in a fore-and-aft sail, taken to steady the ship.

Having balusters. Dryden.

A female banker. Thackeray.

Decorated with a banner or banners "bannered host." Milton.