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A sugar of the composition C5H10O5, obtained from cherry gum by boiling it with dilute sulphuric acid.

An Arabic idiom peculiarly of language. Stuart.

One well versed in the Arabic language or literature; also, formerly, one who followed the Arabic system of surgery.

Arable land; plow land.

The country of Arabia. [Archaic & Poetic]

Capable of being decided by arbitration; determinable. [Archaic] Bp. Hall.

An acrid herbaceous plant (Asarum Europæum), the leaves and roots of which are emetic and cathartic. It is principally used in cephalic snuffs.

A person much given to melancholy; a hypochondriac. I. Disraeli.

Affected with melancholy; atrabilious. Arbuthnot.

Melancholy; atrabilious.

Melancholic or hypohondriac; atrabilious; -- from the supposed predominance of black bile, to the influence of which the ancients attributed hypochondria, melancholy, and mania. Atrabiliary arteries, capsules, and veins (Anat.), those pertaining to the kidney; -- called also renal arteries, capsules, and veins.…

Melancholic or hypochondriac; atrabiliary. Dunglision. A hard-faced, atrabilious, earnest-eyed race. Lowell. He was constitutionally atrabilious and scornful. Froude.

Capable of being borne or endured; tolerable. -- Bear"a*bly, adv.

To befoul with rain and mud; to drabble.

Capable of being bored. [R.]

Pertaining to Brabant, an ancient province of the Netherlands.

A broil; a noisy contest; a wrangle. This petty brabble will undo us all. Shak.

A brabble. [R.] Holland.

A clamorous, quarrelsome, noisy fellow; a wrangler. [R] Shak.

The water buffalo. [Phil. Islands]