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To come up from a lower to a higher position; to come above the horizon; to come up from one's bed or place of repose; to mount; to ascend; to rise; as, to arise from a kneeling posture; a cloud arose; the sun ariseth; he arose early in the morning.

A follower of Aristotle; a Peripatetic. See Peripatetic.

A piece of tallow placed in a cavity at the lower end of a sounding lead, to bring up the sand, shells, etc., of the sea bottom. Totten.

Of or pertaining to Arminius of his followers, or to their doctrines. See note under Arminian, n.

Pertaining to, or derived from, arsenic, when having an equivalence next lower than the highest; as, arsenious acid.

A bone in the base of the lower jaw of many birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fishes.

n opposition to natural; as, artificial heat or light, gems, salts, minerals, fountains, flowers. Artificial strife Lives in these touches, livelier than life. Shak.

A genus of plants found in central Europe and about the Mediterranean, having flowers on a spadix inclosed in a spathe. The cuckoopint of the English is an example. Our common arums the lords and ladies of village children. Lubbock.

A genus of trilobites found in the Lower Silurian formation. See Illust. in Append.

times mistaken for leaves. Asparagus racemosus is a shrubby climbing plant with fragrant flowers. Specifically: The Asparagus officinalis, a species cultivated in gardens.

hardy perennial plants, several species of which are cultivated for the beauty of their flowers.

A member of an assembly, especially of the lower branch of a state legislature.

To receive or adopt. The sixth was a young knight of lesser renown and lower rank, assumed into that honorable company. Sir W. Scott.

A genus of herbs with compound white or bluish flowers; starwort; Michaelmas daisy.

Existing in the atmosphere. The lower atmospheric current. Darwin.

The internal parts of a flower, included within the calyx and the corolla. [Obs.] Johnson.

(Bot.) A small body situated on or near the nucleus in the cells of some of the lower plants, consisting of two centrospheres containing centrosomes. It exercises an important function in mitosis.

alluring; inviting; pleasing. "Attractive graces." Milton. "Attractive eyes." Thackeray. Flowers of a livid yellow, or fleshy color, are most attractive to flies. Lubbock. -- At*tract"ive*ly, adv. -- At*tract"ive*ness, n.

subtile, invisible emanation, effluvium, or exhalation from a substance, as the aroma of flowers, the odor of the blood, a supposed fertilizing emanation from the pollen of flowers, etc.

, or derived from, gold; -- said of those compounds of gold in which this element has its lower valence; as, aurous oxide.