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anging; system of parts disposed in due order; regular and systematic classification; as, arrangement of one's dress; the Linnæan arrangement of plants.

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

Wrong arrangement.

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

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

Arrangement in a group or in groups; grouping.

t that something shall be done or omitted; an exchange of promises; mutual understanding, arrangement, or stipulation; a contract.

The act of adjusting to a line; arrangement in a line or lines; the state of being so adjusted; a formation in a straight line; also, the line of adjustment; esp., an imaginary line to regulate the formation of troops or of a squadron.

The act of putting one thing to another; a placing; disposition; arrangement. Hallam.

the order of, the letters of the alphabet; as, alphabetic characters, writing, languages, arrangement.

An arrangement of lenses and mirrors which enables a person to see an object in spite of intervening objects.

A disposition or arrangement of troops for attacking an enemy unexpectedly from a concealed station. Hence: Unseen peril; a device to entrap; a snare. Heaven, whose high walls fear no assault or siege Or ambush from the deep. Milton.

ng, friendliness; after the manner of friends; peaceable; as, an amicable disposition, or arrangement. That which was most remarkable in this contest was . . . the amicable manner in which it was managed. Prideoux. Amicable action (Law.), an action commenced and prosecuted by amicable consent of the parties, for the pu…

A division of Mollusca remarkable for the bilateral symmetry of the organs and the arrangement of the nerves.

Any instrument or contrivance serving a purpose like that of a ship's anchor, as an arrangement of timber to hold a dam fast; a contrivance to hold the end of a bridge cable, or other similar part; a contrivance used by founders to hold the core of a mold in place.

The arrangement of flowers in a cluster; the science of the relative position of flowers; inflorescence.

g at his length between them. Halliwell, Conybeare. -- Apple-pie order, perfect order or arrangement. [Colloq.] Halliwell.