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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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290 words match “ARAB”

One of a swarthy race occupying Arabia, and numerous in Syria, Northern Africa, etc. Street Arab, a homeless vagabond in the streets of a city, particularly and outcast boy or girl. Tylor. The ragged outcasts and street Arabs who are shivering in damp doorways. Lond. Sat. Rev.

A wagon or cart, usually heavy and without springs, and often covered. [Oriental]

ARABESQUE a. 3 definitions

Arabian. [Obs.]

Ornamented in the style of arabesques.

ARABIAN a. 2 definitions

Of or pertaining to Arabia or its inhabitants. Arabian bird, the phenix. Shak.

ARABIC a. 2 definitions

Of or pertaining to Arabia or the Arabians. Arabic numerals or figures, the nine digits, 1, 2, 3, etc., and the cipher 0. -- Gum arabic. See under Gum.

Relating to Arabia; Arabic. -- A*rab"ic*al*ly, adv.

ARABIN n. 2 definitions

A carbohydrate, isomeric with cane sugar, contained in gum arabic, from which it is extracted as a white, amorphous substance.

A sugar of the composition C5H10O5, obtained from cherry gum by boiling it with dilute sulphuric acid.

An Arabic idiom peculiarly of language. Stuart.

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

ARABLE n. 2 definitions

Arable land; plow land.

The country of Arabia. [Archaic & Poetic]

An acrid herbaceous plant (Asarum Europæum), the leaves and roots of which are emetic and cathartic. It is principally used in cephalic snuffs.

Capable of being borne or endured; tolerable. -- Bear"a*bly, adv.

The water buffalo. [Phil. Islands]

CARABID a. 2 definitions

Of, pertaining to, or resembling, the genus Carbus or family Carabidæ. -- n.

Like, or pertaining to the genus Carabus.