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A foot of three syllables, the middle one short and the others long, as in cast. Andrews.

Of extent of means or resources. "Amplitude of reward." Bacon.

To take cognizance judicially; to inflict punishment. [Archaic] Grew.

Odd; fantastic; fanciful; grotesque; ludicrous. The antic postures of a merry-andrew. Addison. The Saxons . . . worshiped many idols, barbarous in name, some monstrous, all antic for shape. Fuller.

ersally received, but which are now considered canonical. These are the Epistle to the Hebrews, the Epistles of James and Jude, the second Epistle of Peter, the second and third Epistles of John, and the Revelation. The undisputed books are called the Homologoumena.

An old gentleman. [Obs.] You are a shrewd antiquity, neighbor Clench. B. Jonson.

er; -- a name used (Rev. ix. 11) for the angel of the bottomless pit, answering to the Hebrew Abaddon.

. . be taken with children, there will not be much need of the application of the common rewards and punishments. Locke.

Archimedes, a celebrated Greek philosopher; constructed on the principle of Archimedes' screw; as, Archimedean drill, propeller, etc. Archimedean screw, or Archimedes' screw, an instrument, said to have been invented by Archimedes, for raising water, formed by winding a flexible tube round a cylinder in the form of a s…

nct genus of Bryzoa characteristic of the subcarboniferous rocks. Its form is that of a screw.

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

In a subtle; shrewdly.

rder, as troops for battle; to marshal. By torch and trumpet fast arrayed, Each horseman drew his battle blade. Campbell. These doubts will be arrayed before their minds. Farrar.

artisan. [Obs.] How to build ships, and dreadful ordnance cast, Instruct the articles and reward their. Waller.

To strew or sprinkle with ashes. Howell.

Pertaining to, or composed of, ashes; filled, or strewed with, ashes.

Having an indefinite number of small charges scattered or strewed over the surface. Cussans.

Critically discerning; sagacious; shrewd; subtle; crafty.

ers. Also applied by authors to their readers. Fit audience find, though few. Milton. He drew his audience upward to the sky. Dryden. Court of audience, or Audience court (Eng.), a court long since disused, belonging to the Archbishop of Canterbury; also, one belonging to the Archbishop of York. Mozley & W. -- In gene…

udit no more than the revenues of a little cloud. Jer. Taylor. Audit ale, a kind of ale, brewed at the English universities, orig. for the day of audit. -- Audit house, Audit room, an appendage to a cathedral, for the transaction of its business.