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inal sense) or by land. Our watchmen from the towers, with longing eyes, Expect his swift arrival. Dryden.

Failure to arrive.

Coming; any important arrival; approach. Death's dreadful advent. Young. Expecting still his advent home. Tennyson.

yson. Age of a tide, the time from the origin of a tide in the South Pacific Ocean to its arrival at a given place. -- Moon's age, the time that has elapsed since the last preceding conjunction of the sun and moon.

notice, or first notice of; to make known; to publish; to proclaim. Her [Q. Elizabeth's] arrival was announced through the country by a peal of cannon from the ramparts. Gilpin.

Arrival. [Obs.] Shak.

Arrival. [Obs.] Chaucer. How should I joy of thy arrive to hear! Drayton.

ns of rank or wealth, wearing a plume and sword. The great chasseur who had announced her arrival. W. Irving.

lating; an expression of sympathetic pleasure. With infinite congratulations for our safe arrival. Dr. J. Scott.

Attainment or arrival at the highest pitch of glory, power, etc.

To retard; to stop, detain, or hinder, for a time; to retard the motion, or time of arrival, of; as, the mail is delayed by a heavy fall of snow. Thyrsis! whose artful strains have oft delayed The huddling brook to hear his madrigal. Milton.

nt of soldiers or servants; wages. [Obs.] The entertainment of the general upon his first arrival was but six shillings and eight pence. Sir J. Davies.

on a register, as a ship or goods, at a customhouse; an entering; as, his entrance of the arrival was made the same day.

rt and lively air performed on hunting horns during the chase. The fanfare announcing the arrival of the various Christian princes. Sir W. Scott.

The arrival of something in a sudden or unexpected manner; chance; accident; luck; hap; also, the personified or deified power regarded as determining human success, apportioning happiness and unhappiness, and distributing arbitrarily or fortuitously the lots of life. 'T is more by fortune, lady, than by merit. Shak. O…

led the ship. Acts xxvii. 41 (Rhemish version). Willam the Conqueror . . . chanced as his arrival to be graveled; and one of his feet stuck so fast in the sand that he fell to the ground. Camden.

The act of coming in; arrival. The incomings and outgoings of the trains. Dickens.

To take or seize by the way, or before arrival at the destined place; to cause to stop on the passage; as, to intercept a letter; a telegram will intercept him at Paris. God will shortly intercept your breath. Joye.

The master of an inn or of a lodging house. Upon our arrival at the inn, my companion fetched out the jolly landlord. Addison.

The state, condition, or quality, of being late; as, the lateness of his arrival; the lateness of the hour; the lateness of the season.