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o support or overthrow a proposition, opinion, or measure; to use arguments; to reason. I argue not Against Heaven's hand or will. Milton.

One who argues; a reasoner; a disputant.

A day's work; also, a fixed amount of work, whether more or less than that of a day. [Local, Eng. & Scott]

The daisy (Bellis perennis). The name is often applied also to the ox-eye daisy and to the China aster. Longfellow.

To surpass or conquer in argument.

To argue anew or again.

toconfute; to reprove; to convict. [Archaic] How shall I . . . suffer that God should redargue me at doomsday, and the angels reproach my lukewarmness Jer. Taylor. Now this objection to the immediate cognition of external objects has, as far as I know, been redargued in three different ways. Sir W. Hamilton.…

Not argued or debated.

A decorative cabinet, of a form originating in Spain, the body being rectangular and supported on legs or an ornamental framework and the front opening downwards on hinges to serve as a writing desk.

is answerable to his principal; to be answerable for a debt, or for damages. Will any man argue that . . . he can not be justly punished, but is answerable only to God Swift.

o speaks or writes in defense of a faith, a cause, or an institution; especially, one who argues in defense of Christianity.

Capable of being argued; admitting of debate.

To argue pertinaciously. [Colloq.] Halliwell.

To make an argument; to argue. [Obs.] Gower.

To argue or discuss. [Obs.] Wood.

Sagacious; acute; subtle; shrewd. The active preacher . . . the argue schoolman. Milman.

To discourse, argue, or act as an atheist. [R.] -- A"the*i`zer, n. Cudworth.

A goblin, in the shape of a large dog, portending misfortune. [Also written barguest.]

To discuss or argue privately, and for practice, as cases at law. Jacob. To bolt to the bran, to examine thoroughly, so as to separate or discover everything important. Chaucer. This bolts the matter fairly to the bran. Harte. The report of the committee was examined and sifted and bolted to the bran. Burke.…

friends. L'Estrange. To chop logic, to dispute with an affected use of logical terms; to argue sophistically.