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Furnished with an architrave. Cowper.

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.…

man takes in his hand in anger, to strike or assault another with; an aggressive weapon. Cowell. Blackstone.

es. Grasping his spear, forth issued to arouse His brother, mighty sovereign on the host. Cowper. No suspicion was aroused. Merivale.

ad; thorough or downright, in a bad sense; shameless; unmitigated; as, an arrant rogue or coward. I discover an arrant laziness in my soul. Fuller.

gings of heavy cloth with interwoven figures. Stateliest couches, with rich arras spread. Cowper. Behind the arras I'll convey myself. Shak.

summoned to attend the court. To challenge the array (Law), to except to the whole panel. Cowell. Tomlins. Blount. -- Commission of array (Eng. Hist.), a commission given by the prince to officers in every county, to muster and array the inhabitants, or see them in a condition for war. Blackstone.

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.

e, or in 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.

Of or pertaining to arthritis; gouty. Cowper.

inventor, or framer. "Artificer of fraud." Milton. The great Artificer of all that moves. Cowper.

rteus. O, how unlike the complex works of man, Heaven's easy, artless, unencumbered plan! Cowper.

erse a poet or his writings; to asperse a man's character. With blackest crimes aspersed. Cowper.

ail a man with blows; to assail a city with artillery. No rude noise mine ears assailing. Cowper. No storm can now assail The charm he wears within. Keble.

ing up trees and bushes, and thus destroying the tickets or coverts of a forest. Spelman. Cowell.

An assignee may be by special appointment or deed, or be created by jaw; as an executor. Cowell. Blount. (b) pl.

w of Scotland. John Bright. Fast falls a fleecy; the downy flakes Assimilate all objects. Cowper.

number, quantity, quality, weight, measure, etc.; as, rent of assize. Glanvill. Spelman. Cowell. Blackstone. Tomlins. Burrill.

A falconer who keeps a goschawk. [Obs.] Shak. Cowell. [Written also austringer.]

fed out; swelling; in a swelling manner. [Archaic] Inflated and astrut with self-conceit. Cowper.