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A bead of rough carnelian. Arangoes were formerly imported from Bombay for use in the African slave trade. McCulloch.

scene of simple pleasure and untroubled quiet. Where the cow is, there is Arcadia. J. Burroughs.

Fig.: Want of interest of feeling; insensibility; dryness of style or feeling; spiritual drought. Norris.

privileged order; an oligarchy. The aristocracy of Venice hath admitted so many abuses, trough the degeneracy of the nobles, that the period of its duration seems approach. Swift.

From one part to another of; at random through; about; on another side of; as, to travel around the country; a house standing around the corner. [Colloq. U. S.]

Notoriously or preëminently bad; thorough or downright, in a bad sense; shameless; unmitigated; as, an arrant rogue or coward. I discover an arrant laziness in my soul. Fuller.

The person or thing arriving or which has arrived; as, news brought by the last arrival. Another arrival still more important was speedily announced. Macaulay.

rterial blood, blood which has been changed and vitalized (arterialized) during passage through the lungs.

The process of converting venous blood into arterial blood during its passage through the lungs, oxygen being absorbed and carbonic acid evolved; -- called also aëration and hematosis.

Ingeniously; skillfully. [Obs.] The spider's web, finely and artificially wrought. Tillotson.

et. Ferguson. -- Ascending line (Geneol.), the line of relationship traced backward or through one's ancestors. One's father and mother, grandfather and grandmother, etc., are in the line direct ascending. -- Ascending node having, that node of the moon or a planet wherein it passes the ecliptic to proceed northward.…

Hewn or squared stone; also, masonry made of squared or hewn stone. Rough ashlar, a block of freestone as brought from the quarry. When hammer-dressed it is known as common ashlar. Knight.

Toward one side; in a slanting direction; obliquely. [The shaft] drove through his neck aslant. Dryden.

obtained from asparagus. It is believed to aid in the disposition of nitrogenous matter throughout the plant; -- called also altheine.

Rough; rugged; harsh; bitter; stern; fierce. [Archaic] "An asper sound." Bacon.

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

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

Having rough leaves.

Roughness of surface; unevenness; -- opposed to smoothness. "The asperities of dry bodies." Boyle.

Rough; uneven. Boyle.