Search the Dictionary

A balancing; equipoise. [R.] De Quincey.

A full collection or set of implements, or utensils, for a given duty, experimental or operative; any complex instrument or appliance, mechanical or chemical, for a specific action or operation; machinery; mechanism.

Plowing; tillage. [R.] Lands are said to be in a state of aration when they are under tillage. Brande.

Contributing to tillage.

To hear and decide, as arbitrators; as, to choose to arbitrate a disputed case.

The hearing and determination of a cause between parties in controversy, by a person or persons chosen by the parties.

rsons, chosen by parties who have a controversy, to determine their differences. See Arbitration.

A female who arbitrates or judges.

One who plants or who prunes trees. [Obs.] Evelyn.

One who is overbearing in his temper or habits; a proud or haughty person. A born aristocrat, bred radical. Mrs. Browning.

racy; consisting in, or favoring, a government of nobles, or principal men; as, an aristocratic constitution.

The principles of aristocrats. Romilly.

The ratio of the long to the short side of an aëroplane, aërocurve, or wing.

To make rough or uneven. The asperated part of its surface. Boyle.

The act of asperating; a making or becoming rough. Bailey.

To pronounce with a breathing, an aspirate, or an h sound; as, we aspirate the words horse and house; to aspirate a vowel or a liquid consonant.

Pronounced with the h sound or with audible breath. But yet they are not aspirate, i. e., with such an aspiration as h. Holder.

The act of aspirating; the pronunciation of a letter with a full or strong emission of breath; an aspirated sound. If aspiration be defined to be an impetus of breathing. Wilkins.

An apparatus for passing air or gases through or over certain liquids or solids, or for exhausting a closed vessel, by means of suction.

Of or pertaining to breathing; suited to the inhaling of air