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A exterior covering, forming a false coat or appendage to a seed, as the loose, transparent bag inclosing the seed or the white water lily. The mace of the nutmeg is also an aril. Gray.

Having an aril.

opyle instead of from the funicle or chalaza of the ovule. The mace of the nutmeg is an arillode.

merica. The body and head are incased in an armor composed of small bony plates. The armadillos burrow in the earth, seldom going abroad except at night. When attacked, they curl up into a ball, presenting the armor on all sides. Their flesh is good food. There are several species, one of which (the peba) is found as f…

An armil.

Pertaining to, or resembling, a bracelet or ring; consisting of rings or circles. Armillary sphere, an ancient astronomical machine composed of an assemblage of rings, all circles of the same sphere, designed to represent the positions of the important circles of the celestial sphere. Nichol.

A person skilled in artillery or gunnery; a gunner; an artilleryman.

war; implements for warfare, as slings, bows, and arrows. [Obs.] And Jonathan gave his artillery unto his lad. 1 Sam. xx. 40.

A kind of heavily built dished wheel with a long axle box, used on gun carriages, usually having 14 spokes and 7 felloes; hence, a wheel of similar construction for use on automobiles, etc.

A man who manages, or assists in managing, a large gun in firing.

in the Roman Catholic church for sprinkling holy water on the people. [Also written aspergillus.]

Resembling the aspergillum in form; as, an aspergilliform stigma. Gray.

The armpit, or the cavity beneath the junction of the arm and shoulder.

Axillary.

Feathers connecting the under surface of the wing and the body, and concealed by the closed wing.

Of or pertaining to the axilla or armpit; as, axillary gland, artery, nerve.

The lesser whitethroat of Europe; -- called also babbling warbler.

Shaped like a rod or staff.

See Diatom.

Of or pertaining to little rods; rod-shaped.