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on of silver, with the handle terminating in the figure of an apostle. One or more were offered by sponsors at baptism as a present to the godchild. B. Jonson.

The difference between two quantities commensurable only in power, as between sq. root2 and 1, or between the diagonal and side of a square.

against another for some heinous crime demanding punishment for the particular injury suffered, rather than for the offense against the public.

Fig.: With reference to April being the month in which vegetation begins to put forth, the variableness of its weather, etc. The April's her eyes; it is love's spring. Shak. April fool, one who is sportively imposed upon by others on the first day of April.

f Exchange); also, a traffic in stocks which bear differing values at the same time in different markets.

determine generally. South. There shall your swords and lances arbitrate The swelling difference of your settled hate. Shak.

e of two or more persons, chosen by parties who have a controversy, to determine their differences. See Arbitration.

A term applied to several different species of plants (Angelica archangelica, Lamium album, etc.).

The primitive enteron or undifferentiated digestive sac of a gastrula or other embryo. See Illust. under Invagination.

With reference to the archetype; originally. "Parts archetypally distinct." Dana.

The present indicative plural of the substantive verb to be; but etymologically a different word from be, or was. Am, art, are, and is, all come from the root as.

Any small space, bounded by some part different in color or structure, as the spaces bounded by the nervures of the wings of insects, or those by the veins of leaves; an areola.

To prove or evince; too manifest or exhibit by inference, deduction, or reasoning. So many laws argue so many sins. Milton.

A reason or reasons offered in proof, to induce belief, or convince the mind; reasoning expressed in words; as, an argument about, concerning, or regarding a proposition, for or in favor of it, or against it.

Formerly, a measure of land in France, varying in different parts of the country. The arpent of Paris was 4,088 sq. yards, or nearly five sixths of an English acre. The woodland arpent was about 1 acre, 1 rood, 1 perch, English.

Etruscans and Romans, who foretold events by the inspection of the entrails of victims offered on the altars of the gods.

As the population of Scotland had been generally trained to arms . . . they were not indifferently prepared. Sir W. Scott. [See Synonym under Because.]

ascent; ascensive; tending upward; as, the ascensional power of a balloon. Ascensional difference (Astron.), the difference between oblique and right ascension; -- used chiefly as expressing the difference between the time of the rising or setting of a body and six o'clock, or six hours from its meridian passage.…

hin which the asci are collected, and which constitutes the mature fructification. The different forms are known in mycology under distinct names. Called also spore fruit.

o icebergs off the coast. Ascribe is used equally in both these senses, but involves a different image. To impute usually denotes to ascribe something doubtful or wrong, and hence, in general literature, has commonly a bad sense; as, to impute unworthy motives. The theological sense of impute is not here taken into vie…