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se (persons, or parts) in the manner intended, or best suited for the purpose; as, troops arranged for battle. So [they] came to the market place, and there he arranged his men in the streets. Berners. [They] were beginning to arrange their hampers. Boswell. A mechanism previously arranged. Paley.

The act of arranging or putting in an orderly condition; the state of being arranged or put in order; disposition in suitable form.

One who arranges. Burke.

To unsettle or disturb the order or due arrangement of; to throw out of order.

The act of disarranging, or the state of being disarranged; confusion; disorder. Cowper.

To place in a wrong order, or improper manner.

Wrong arrangement.

To arrange beforehand.

To arrange again; to arrange in a different way.

The act of rearranging, or the state of being rearranged.

to occur; to take place. See under Come. -- To go about, To set about, to undertake; to arrange; to prepare. "Shall we set about some revels Shak. -- Round about, in every direction around.

fording, or disposed to afford, accommodation; obliging; as an accommodating man, spirit, arrangement.

Settlement of claims; an equitable arrangement of conflicting claims, as in set-off, contribution, exoneration, subrogation, and marshaling. Bispham.

Skillful arrangement in aid; assistance. It was, no doubt, disposed with all the adjutancy of definition and division. Burke.

The first of two or more surfaces arranged in tandem; -- contr. with following surface, which is the rear surface.

Having opposite leaves, as plants which have the leaves so arranged on the stem.

osed by Edison, for greatly intensifying speech. It consists of a phonograph diaphragm so arranged that its action opens and closes valves, producing synchronous air blasts sufficient to operate a larger diaphragm with greater amplitude of vibration.

The arrangement of the petals in a flower bud, as to folding, overlapping, etc.; prefloration. Gray. [Spelt also estivation.]

riety of quartz, presenting various tints in the same specimen. Its colors are delicately arranged in stripes or bands, or blended in clouds.

Arrangement in a group or in groups; grouping.