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A small intrenchment or work of palisades, or of sacks of earth.

A cavity which leads into the stomach, as in birds. Ray.

Pressed close to, or lying against, something for its whole length, as against a stem, Gray.

A crossbow, consisting of a steel bow set in a shaft of wood, furnished with a string and a trigger, and a mechanical device for bending the bow. It served to throw arrows, darts, bullets, etc. [Written also arbalet and arblast.] Fosbroke.

A crossbowman. [Obs.] Speed.

A chief priest; also, a kind of vicar, or a rural dean.

A support for the spear when couched for the attack. [Obs.] Chaucer.

To stop; to check or hinder the motion or action of; as, to arrest the current of a river; to arrest the senses. Nor could her virtues the relentless hand Of Death arrest. Philips.

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.

One who arrests.

Striking; attracting attention; impressive. This most solemn and arresting occurrence. J. H. Newman.

Tending to arrest. McCosh.

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.

Of, pertaining to, or resembling asbestus; inconsumable; asbestine.

Having the form or structure of asbestus.

Of or pertaining to asbestus, or partaking of its nature; incombustible; asbestic.

Asbestic.

A variety of amphibole or of pyroxene, occurring in long and delicate fibers, or in fibrous masses or seams, usually of a white, gray, or green-gray color. The name is also given to a similar variety of serpentine.

To bear witness to; to certify; to affirm to be true or genuine; as, to attest the truth of a writing, a copy of record. Facts . . . attested by particular pagan authors. Addison.