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Made with an arch or curve; covered with an arch; as, an arched door.

Bent into a curve; -- said of a bend or other ordinary.

The state of being parched.

Stiffened with starch.

The quality or state of being starched; stiffness in manners; formality.

Dried up; withered by heat. [Obs.] "My tongue . . . unparched." Crashaw.

A plane or arched surface for sustaining bodies by its movement through the air; a spread wing, as of a bird.

A small ornamental building with seats, or an arched seat, in a pleasure ground; a garden bower. Cowper.

upport.] (Mil.) (a) A given point or body, upon which troops are formed, or by which are marched in line or column. (b) An advantageous defensive support, as a castle, morass, wood, declivity, etc.

ooked; prominent, like the beak of an eagle; -- applied particularly to the nose Terribly arched and aquiline his nose. Cowper.

A long, arched building or gallery.

Colors of the showery arch." Milton. Triumphal arch, a monumental structure resembling an arched gateway, with one or more passages, erected to commemorate a triumph.

The arched part of a structure.

Arched; as, archy brows.

Exhausted of moisture; parched with heat; dry; barren. "An arid waste." Thomson.

One of the five arched processes of the shell around the jaws of a sea urchin.

The arched handle of a kettle, pail, or similar vessel, usually movable. Forby.

Two pieces of wood which form the arched forward part of a saddletree. Bow bearer (O. Eng. Law), an under officer of the forest who looked after trespassers. -- Bow drill, a drill worked by a bow and string. -- Bow instrument (Mus.), any stringed instrument from which the tones are produced by the bow. -- Bow window…

A pair of compasses, with a bow or arched plate riveted to one of the legs, and passing through the other.

hrust of which is resisted by a tie forming a chord of the arch. -- Bowstring girder, an arched beam strengthened by a tie connecting its two ends. -- Bowstring hemp (Bot.), the tenacious fiber of the Sanseviera Zeylanica, growing in India and Africa, from which bowstrings are made. Balfour.