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A canal or passage; as, the aqueduct of Sylvius, a channel connecting the third and fourth ventricles of the brain.

Wateriness. [Obs.]

Partaking of the nature of water, or abounding with it; watery. The aqueous vapor of the air. Tyndall.

Wateriness.

Relating to, or exhibiting, the style of ornament called arabesque; as, arabesque frescoes.

Ornamented in the style of arabesques.

y which the burning match was applied. The musket was a later invention. [Written also harquebus.]

The shot of an arquebus. Ash.

A soldier armed with an arquebus. Soldiers armed with guns, of whatsoever sort or denomination, appear to have been called arquebusiers. E. Lodge.

a party against whom judgment is recovered, but to whom good matter of discharge has subsequently accrued which could not have been availed of to prevent such judgment. Wharton.

a sweetmeat or sweetmeats. [Obs.] We'll dine in the great room, but let the music And banquet be prepared here. Massinger.

A raised way or foot bank, running along the inside of a parapet, on which musketeers stand to fire upon the enemy.

One who banquets; one who feasts or makes feasts.

Barbaric in form or style; as, barbaresque architecture. De Quincey.

Formerly, any small sailing vessel, as a pinnace, fishing smack, etc.; also, a rowing boat; a barge. Now applied poetically to a sailing vessel or boat of any kind. Byron.

In bad taste; grotesque; odd.

Same as 3d Bark, n.

The language spoken by the Basque people.

Radiations first observed by the French physicist Henri Becquerel, in working with uranium and its compounds. They consist of a mixture of alpha, beta, and gamma rays.

stament; -- said especially of personal property. My heritage, which my dead father did bequeath to me. Shak.