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

Pertaining to Aristotle or to his philosophy. "Aristotelic usage." Sir W. Hamilton.

To come to the shore or bank. In present usage: To come in progress by water, or by traveling on land; to reach by water or by land; -- followed by at (formerly sometimes by to), also by in and from. "Arrived in Padua." Shak. [Æneas] sailing with a fleet from Sicily, arrived . . . and landed in the country of Laurentum…

An aquatic plant of the genus Sagittaria, esp. S. sagittifolia, -- named from the shape of the leaves.

A peculiar transparent worm of the genus Sagitta, living at the surface of the sea. See Sagitta.

wood. Of these A. absinthium, or common wormwood, is well known, and A. tridentata is the sage brush of the Rocky Mountain region.

road. Arterial 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.

ime of the rising or setting of a body and six o'clock, or six hours from its meridian passage.

Sharpness; disagreeableness; difficulty. The acclivities and asperities of duty. Barrow.

morally, or with a view to produce changes in the feelings, character, conduct, existing usages, institutions; to attack by words, hostile influence, etc.; as, to assail one with appeals, arguments, abuse, ridicule, and the like. The papal authority . . . assailed. Hallam. They assailed him with keen invective; they as…

aning, to maltreat exceedingly. [Archaic] Your rhymes assassinate our fame. Dryden. Such usage as your honorable lords Afford me, assassinated and betrayed. Milton.

loy or metal to be assayed. Ure. Assay and essay are radically the same word; but modern usage has appropriated assay chiefly to experiments in metallurgy, and essay to intellectual and bodily efforts. See Essay.]

Same as Assagai.

Resemblance of sound. "The disagreeable assonance of Steevens.

Three asterisks placed in this manner, *, to direct attention to a particular passage.

Critically discerning; sagacious; shrewd; subtle; crafty.

A small dam to prevent free passage of water in an adit or level.

Absence or closure of a natural passage or channel of the body; imperforation.

To predict or foretell, as from signs or omens; to betoken; to presage; to infer. It seems to augur genius. Sir W. Scott. I augur everything from the approbation the proposal has met with. J. F. W. Herschel.