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See Apsis.

Same as Arachnida.

See Araneina.

A group of the Carnivora, that includes the bears, weasels, etc.

Belonging to, or resembling, the Arum family of plants.

e; to gratify. [Archaic] B. Jonson. Above all thy rarities, old Oxenford, what do most arride and solace me are thy repositories of moldering learning. Lamb.

A compound of arsenic with a metal, or positive element or radical; -- formerly called arseniuret.

A group of Tunicata, often shaped like a two-necked bottle. The group includes, social, and compound species. The gill is a netlike structure within the oral aperture. The integument is usually leathery in texture. See Illustration in Appendix.

On, or to, one side; out of a straight line, course, or direction; at a little distance from the rest; out of the way; apart. Thou shalt set aside that which is full. 2 Kings iv. 4. But soft! but soft! aside: here comes the king. Shak. The flames were blown aside. Dryden.

One of a body of devoted Jews who opposed the Hellenistic Jews, and supported the Asmoneans.

Usually attending a disease, but not always; as, assident signs, or symptoms.

A class of Echinodermata including the true starfishes. The rays vary in number and always have ambulacral grooves below. The body is starshaped or pentagonal.

With one leg on each side, as a man when on horseback; with the legs stretched wide apart; astraddle. Placed astride upon the bars of the palisade. Sir W. Scott. Glasses with horn bows sat astride on his nose. Longfellow.

The Pleiades or seven stars, fabled to have been the daughters of Atlas.

The trichloride of gold combination with the chloride of another metal, forming a double chloride; -- called also chloraurate.

A double cyanide of gold and some other metal or radical; -- called also cyanaurate.

The person who carries anything away, or the vessel in which things are carried away. Johnson.

The hinder part, posteriors, or rump of a person or animal.

To slide back; to fall away; esp. to abandon gradually the faith and practice of a religion that has been professed.

One who backslides.