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The system by which a country raises, classifies, arranges, and equips its armed land forces. The usual divisions are: (1) A regular or active army, in which soldiers serve continuously with the colors and live in barracks or cantonments when not in the field; (2) the reserves of this army, in which the soldiers, while…

To drive or scare off by some exclamation. [R.] "Whiskered cats arointed flee." Mrs. Browning.

A plant, drug, or medicine, characterized by a fragrant smell, and usually by a warm, pungent taste, as ginger, cinnamon spices.

A barbarous word used by the old chemists to designate various medical remedies. [Obs.]

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.]

n. It is not arrogance, but timidity, of which the Christian body should now be arraigned by the world. I. Taylor.

Settlement; adjustment by agreement; as, the parties have made an arrangement between themselves concerning their disputes; a satisfactory arrangement.

An imposing series of things. Their long array of sapphire and of gold. Byron.

in the plural, as, arrears of rent, wages, or taxes. Locke. For much I dread due payment by the Greeks Of yesterday's arrear. Cowper. I have a large arrear of letters to write. J. D. Forbes. In arrear or In arrears, behind; backward; behindhand; in debt.

To take, seize, or apprehend by authority of law; as, to arrest one for debt, or for a crime.

Arrest. [R.] The arrestation of the English resident in France was decreed by the National Convention. H. M. Williams.

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

The arrest of a person, or the seizure of his effects; esp., a process by which money or movables in the possession of a third party are attached.

The sharp edge or salient angle formed by two surfaces meeting each other, whether plane or curved; -- applied particularly to the edges in moldings, and to the raised edges which separate the flutings in a Doric column. P. Cyc. Arris fillet, a triangular piece of wood used to raise the slates of a roof against a chimn…

The act of arriving, or coming; the act of reaching a place from a distance, whether by water (as in its original sense) or by land. Our watchmen from the towers, with longing eyes, Expect his swift arrival. Dryden.

To come to the shore or bank. In present usage: To come in progress by water, or by traveling on land; to reach by water or by land; -- followed by at (formerly sometimes by to), also by in and from. "Arrived in Padua." Shak. [Æneas] sailing with a fleet from Sicily, arrived . . . and landed in the country of Laurentum…

countries. It said that the Indians used the roots to neutralize the venom in wounds made by poisoned arrows.

any respect resembling, an arrow; swift; darting; piercing. "His arrowy tongue." Cowper. By the blue rushing of the arrowy Rhone. Byron. With arrowy vitalities, vivacities, and ingenuities. Carlyle.

A diseased condition produced by slow poisoning with arsenic.

A salt formed by the union of arsenious acid with a base.