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An air or song; a melody; a tune.

See Aryan.

The doctrines of the Arians.

To admit or accept the tenets of the Arians; to become an Arian.

One who is learning the alphabet; hence, a tyro.

ning to, or formed by, the letters of the alphabet; alphabetic; hence, rudimentary. Abecedarian psalms, hymns, etc., compositions in which (like the 119th psalm in Hebrew) distinct portions or verses commence with successive letters of the alphabet. Hook.

stony corals. Sometimes, in a wider sense, applied to all the Anthozoa, expert the Alcyonaria, whether forming corals or not.

Of or pertaining to actuaries; as, the actuarial value of an annuity.

One who held the real presence of Christ's body in the eucharist, but not by transubstantiation.

A transparent or translucent variety of common feldspar, or orthoclase, which often shows pearly opalescent reflections; -- called by lapidaries moonstone.

also, commentaries or notes. These parchments are supposed to have been St. Paul's adversaria. Bp. Bull.

s, or their tenure; esp., relating to am equal or equitable division of lands; as, the agrarian laws of Rome, which distributed the conquered and other public lands among citizens. His Grace's landed possessions are irresistibly inviting to an agrarian experiment. Burke.

An equal or equitable division of landed property; the principles or acts of those who favor a redistribution of land.

To distribute according to, or to imbue with, the principles of agrarianism.

One of the orders of Anthozoa. It includes the Alcyonacea, Pennatulacea, and Gorgonacea.

The pin grass (Erodium cicutarium), a weed in California.

A learner of the alphabet; an abecedarian. Abp. Sancroft.

Lofty in doctrine, aims, etc. [R.] Coleridge.

Exaction of forced service; compulsion. [Obs.] Speed.

Good against malaria.