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carved in low relief. It consists of a pattern in which plants, fruits, foliage, etc., as well as figures of men and animals, real or imaginary, are fantastically interlaced or put together.

One well versed in the Arabic language or literature; also, formerly, one who followed the Arabic system of surgery.

The award of arbitrators. Cowell.

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

One who makes trees his study, or who is versed in the knowledge of trees. Howell.

Silver plate or vessels. [Obs.] Bowls of frosted argentry. Howell.

o treat by reasoning; as, the counsel argued the cause before a full court; the cause was well argued.

To argue pertinaciously. [Colloq.] Halliwell.

an takes in his hand in anger, to strike or assault another with; an aggressive weapon. Cowell. Blackstone.

anged his men in the streets. Berners. [They] were beginning to arrange their hampers. Boswell. A mechanism previously arranged. Paley.

mmoned to attend the court. To challenge the array (Law), to except to the whole panel. Cowell. Tomlins. Blount. -- Commission of array (Eng. Hist.), a commission given by the prince to officers in every county, to muster and array the inhabitants, or see them in a condition for war. Blackstone.

and overdue, after payment of a part; arrears. The old arrearages . . . being defrayed. Howell.

demoniac; raving; mad; crack-brained. [Obs.] Odd, arreptitious, frantic extravagances. Howell.

The malicious burning of a dwelling house or outhouse of another man, which by the common law is felony; the malicious and voluntary firing of a building or ship. Wharton.

in actions; a system of principles and rules for attaining a desired end; method of doing well some special work; -- often contradistinguished from science or speculative principles; as, the art of building or engraving; the art of war; the art of navigation. Science is systematized knowledge . . . Art is knowledge mad…

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

Of or pertaining to Artois (anciently called Artesium), in France. Artesian wells, wells made by boring into the earth till the instrument reaches water, which, from internal pressure, flows spontaneously like a fountain. They are usually of small diameter and often of great depth.

, just now. [Obs.] Chaucer. -- As swythe, as quickly as possible. [Obs.] Chaucer. -- As well, also; too; besides. Addison. -- As well as, equally with, no less than. "I have understanding as well as you." Job xii. 3. -- As yet, until now; up to or at the present time; still; now.

To strew or sprinkle with ashes. Howell.

The young and tender shoots of A. officinalis, which form a valuable and well-known article of food.