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A person skilled in the art of building; one who understands architecture, or makes it his occupation to form plans and designs of buildings, and to superintend the artificers employed.

only, the molding or other ornaments with which the wall face of the voussoirs of an arch is charged.

The termination of many English words; as, coward, reynard, drunkard, mostly from the French, in which language this ending is of German origin, being orig. the same word as English hard. It usually has the sense of one who has to a high or excessive degree the quality expressed by the root; as, braggart, sluggard.…

Hot or burning; causing a sensation of burning; fiery; as, ardent spirits, that is, distilled liquors; an ardent fever.

stem of electric night signals in which a series of double electric lamps (white and red) is arranged vertically on a mast, and operated from a keyboard below.

Burning; ardent. [R.] Lo! further on, Where flames the arduous Spirit of Isidore. Cary.

antive verb to be; but etymologically a different word from be, or was. Am, art, are, and is, all come from the root as.

A genus of palms, one species of which produces the areca nut, or betel nut, which is chewed in India with the leaf of the Piper Betle and lime.

burner, a burner for an Argand lamp, or a gas burner in which the principle of that lamp is applied.

mous ticks which attack men and animals. The famous Persian Argas, also called Miana bug, is A. Persicus; that of Central America, called talaje by the natives, is A. Talaje.

Whiteness; anything that is white. The polished argent of her breast. Tennyson.

A fish of Europe (Maurolicus Pennantii) with silvery scales. The name is also applied to various fishes of the genus Argentina.

alled vitreous silver, or silver glance. It has a metallic luster, a lead-gray color, and is sectile like lead.

Argillaceous schist or slate; clay slate. Its colors is bluish or blackish gray, sometimes greenish gray, brownish red, etc. -- Ar`gil*lit"ic, a.

The name of the ship which carried Jason and his fifty-four companions to Colchis, in quest of the Golden Fleece.

Crude tartar; an acidulous salt from which cream of tartar is prepared. It exists in the juice of grapes, and is deposited from wines on the sides of the casks. Ure.

A genus of Cephalopoda. The shell is called paper nautilus or paper sailor.

Proof; evidence. [Obs.] There is.. no more palpable and convincing argument of the existence of a Deity. Ray. Why, then, is it made a badge of wit and an argument of parts for a man to commence atheist, and to cast off all belief of providence, all awe and reverence for religion South.

orming 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 man that hat…

Consisting of, or characterized by, argument; containing a process of reasoning; as, an argumentative discourse.