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A flying buttress. Gwilt.

A chief butler; -- an officer of the German empire.

us of gigantic cephalopods, allied to the squids, found esp. in the North Atlantic and about New Zealand.

A large theorbo, or double-necked lute, formerly in use, having the bass strings doubled with an octave, and the higher strings with a unison.

A cephalopod of the genus Argonauta.

A genus of Cephalopoda. The shell is called paper nautilus or paper sailor.

Of or pertaining to the Argonauts.

Caviling; subtle disputation. [Obs.]

Sagacious; acute; subtle; shrewd. The active preacher . . . the argue schoolman. Milman.

In a subtle; shrewdly.

Acuteness. Dryden.

An inhabitant of Albania and neighboring mountainous regions, specif. one serving as a soldier in the Turkish army.

The earthnut. [Obs.]

An obtaining or acquiring. [Obs.] Ayliffe.

Sticking out, or puffed out; swelling; in a swelling manner. [Archaic] Inflated and astrut with self-conceit. Cowper.

Critically discerning; sagacious; shrewd; subtle; crafty.

Capable of being attributed; ascribable; imputable. Errors . . . attributable to carelessness. J. D. Hooker.

consider (something) as due or appropriate (to); to refer, as an effect to a cause; to impute; to assign; to consider as belonging (to). We attribute nothing to God that hath any repugnancy or contradiction in it. Abp. Tillotson. The merit of service is seldom attributed to the true and exact performer. Shak.…

The act of attributing or ascribing, as a quality, character, or function, to a thing or person, an effect to a cause.

Attributing; pertaining to, expressing, or assigning an attribute; of the nature of an attribute.