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

To tear up by the roots; to draw away. [Obs.] Wyatt.

A person appointed, or chosen, by parties to determine a controversy between them.

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

Judgment by an arbiter; authoritative determination. [Archaic]

In an arbitrary manner; by will only; despotically; absolutely.

Depending on will or discretion; not governed by any fixed rules; as, an arbitrary decision; an arbitrary punishment. It was wholly arbitrary in them to do so. Jer. Taylor. Rank pretends to fix the value of every one, and is the most arbitrary of all things. Landor.

The hearing and determination of a cause between parties in controversy, by a person or persons chosen by the parties.

A person, or one of two or more persons, chosen by parties who have a controversy, to determine their differences. See Arbitration.

s, or crystallizations, or groups of crystals in that form; as, the arborescence produced by precipitating silver.

Formed by trees. [Obs.] From under shady, arborous roof. Milton.

The apparent arc described, above or below the horizon, by the sun or other celestial body. The diurnal arc is described during the daytime, the nocturnal arc during the night. Electric arc, Voltaic arc. See under Voltaic.

Any place covered by an arch; an archway; as, to pass into the arch of a bridge.

Of or characterized by antiquity or archaism; antiquated; obsolescent.

n England, an ecclesiastical dignitary, next in rank below a bishop, whom he assists, and by whom he is appointed, though with independent authority. Blackstone.

The standard weight or coin by which others are adjusted.

, etc. Archimedean screw, or Archimedes' screw, an instrument, said to have been invented by Archimedes, for raising water, formed by winding a flexible tube round a cylinder in the form of a screw. When the screw is placed in an inclined position, and the lower end immersed in water, by causing the screw to revolve, t…

One of the chief magistrates in ancient Athens, especially, by preëminence, the first of the nine chief magistrates. -- Ar*chon"tic, a.

A mode of propagating trees by bending branches to the ground, and covering the small shoots with earth; layering. Chambers.

usually has the sense of one who has to a high or excessive degree the quality expressed by the root; as, braggart, sluggard.