A barquebuse, or ordnance, will be farther heard from the mouth of the piece, than backwards or on the sides. Bacon. ARQUEBUSIER. n. s. [from arquebuse.] A soldier armed with an àrquebuse. He compassed them in with fifteen thousand arquebusiers, whom he had brought with him well appointed. Knolles. A'RRACH, O'RRACH, or O'RRAGE. n. s. One of the quickest plants both in coming up and running to seed. Its leaves are very good in pottage. Mortimer's Husbandry. ARRA'CK, or ARA'CK. n. s. The word arrack is an Indian name for strong waters of all kinds; for they call our spirits and brandy English arrack. But what we understand by the name arrack, is no other than a spirit procured by distillation from a vegetable jnice called toddy, which flows by incision out of the cocoa-nut tree. To ARRAIGN. v. a. [arranger, Fr. to set in order.]. I. To set a thing in order, or in its place. One is said to arraign a writ in a county, that fits it for trial before the justices of the circuit. A prisoner is said to be arraigned, where he is indicted and brought forth to his trial. Corvell. Summon a session, that we may arraign Our most disloyal lady; for as she hath Been publickly accused, so shall she have A just and open trial. Shakspeare. 2. To accuse; to charge with faults in general, as in controversy, in a satire. Reverse of nature! shall such copies then Arraign th'originals of Maro's pen? Roscommon. He that thinks a man to the ground, will quickly endeavour to lay him there for while he despises him, he arraigns and condemns him in his heart. South. 3. It has for before the fault. My own enemies I shall never answer; and if your lordship has any, they will not arraign you for want of knowledge. Dryden. ARRAIGNMENT. n. s. [from arraign.] The act of arraigning; an accusation; a charge. In the sixth satire, which seems only an erraignment of the whole sex, there is a latent admonition to avoid ill women. 1 Dryden. To ARRANCE. v. a. [arranger, Fr.] To put in the proper order for any purpose. I chanc'd this day To see two knights in travel on my way, (A sorry sight!) arrang'd in battle new. Fairy Queen. How effectually are its muscular fibres arranged, and with what judgment are its columns and furrows disposed! Cheyne ARRANGEMENT. n. s. [from arrange.] The act of putting in proper order; the state of being put in order. There is a proper arrangement of the parts in elastic bodies, which may be facilitated by use. A'RRANT. adj. [of uncertain etymology, but probably from errant, which being at first applied in its proper signification to vagabonds, as an errant or arrant rogue, that is, a rambling rogue, lost, in time, its original signification, and being by its use understood to imply something bad, was applied at large to any thing that was mentioned with hatred or contempt.] Bad in a high degree. Country folks, who hallooed and hooted after me, as at the arrantest coward that ever shewed his shoulders to the enemy. Sidney. A vain fool grows forty times an arranter sot than before. L'Estrange. And let him every deity adore, If his new bride prove not an arrant whore. Dryd A'RRANTLY. adv. [from arrant.] Corruptly; shamefully. Funeral tears are as arrantly hired out as mourning clokes. L'Estrange. A'RRAS. n. s. [from Arras, a town in Artois, where hangings are woven.] Tapestry; hangings woven with images. Thence to the hall, which was on every side With rich array and costly arres dight. Fairy Q He's going to his mother's closet; Behind the arras I'll convey myself, To hear the process. Shakspeare. As he shall pass the galleries, I'll place A guard behind the arras. Denham's Sophy. ARRA'UGHT. v. a. [a word used by Spenser in the preter tense, of which I have not found the present, but suppose he derived arreach from arracher, Fr.] Seized by violence. His ambitious sons unto them twain Arraught the rule, and from their father drew. Fairy Queen. ARRA'Y. n. s. [arroy, Fr. arreo, Sp. arredo, Ital. from reye, Teut. order. It was adopted into the middle Latin, mille bominum arraitorum, Knighton.] 1. Order, chiefly of war. The earl espying them scattered near the army, sent one to command them to their array. Hayward. Wert thou sought to deeds That might require th' array of war, thy skill Of conduct would be such, that all the world Could not sustain thy prowess. Milton. A general sets his army in array In vain, unless he fight and win the day. Denham. 2. Dress. A rich throne, as bright as sunny day, On which there sat most brave embellished With royal robes, and gorgeous array, A maiden queen. Fairy Queen, In this remembrance, Emily ere day Arose, and dress'd herself in rich array. Dryden. 3. In law. Array, of the French array, i. e. ordo, the ranking or setting forth of a jury or inquest of men impannelled upon a cause. Thence is the verb to array a pannel, that is, to set forth, one by another, the men impannelled. Corvell To ARRAY. v. a. [arroyer, old Fr.] 1. To put in order. 2. To deck; to dress; to adorn the person: with the particle with or in. Deck, thyself now with majesty and excel Milton. One vest array'd the corpse, and one they spread O'er his clos'd eyes, and wrapp'd around his head. mour. 3. In law See ARRAY in law. To leave with speed Atlanta swift arrear, Fairy Queen. ARREAR. 1. S. That which remains behind unpaid, though due. See AR REARAGE. His boon is giv'n; his knight has gain'd the day, But lost the prize! th' arrears are yet to pay. Dryden. If a tenant run away in arrear of some rent, the land remains; that cannot be carried away, or lost. Locke. It will comfort our grandchildren, when they see a few rags hung up in Westminster-hall, which cost an hundred millions, whereof they are paying the arrears, and boasting, as beggars do, that their grandfathers were rich. Swift. ARRE'ARAGE. n. s. a word now little used. [from arriere, Fr. behind.] The remainder of an account, or a sum of money remaining in the hands of an accountant; or, more generally, any money unpaid at the due time, as arConwell. rearage of rent. Paget set forth the king of England's title to his debts and pension from the French king; with all arrearages. Hayward. He'll grant the tribute, send the arrearages. Shakspeare. The old arrearages under which that crown had long groaned, being defrayed, he hath brought Lurana to uphold and maintain herself. Howel's Vocal Forest. ARR'AERANCE. n. s. The same with ar ARREPTITIOUS. adj. [arreptus, Lat.] 1. Snatched away. 1 mer issue, is to shew cause why an inquest should not be taken. An arrest is a certain restraint of a man's person, depriving him of his own will, and binding it to become obedient to the will of the law, and may be called the beginning of imprisonment. Corvell. If I could speak so wisely under an arrest, I would send for my creditors; yet I had as lief have the foppery of freedom, as the morality of imprisonment. Shakspeare. 2. Any caption, seizure of the person. 3. To the rich man, who had promised himself ease for many years, it was a sad arrest, that his soul was surprised the first night. Taylor, A stop. The stop and arrest of the air sheweth, that the air hath little appetite of ascending. Bacon. To ARREST. v. a. [arrester, Fr. to stop.] 1. To seize by a mandate from a court or officer of justice. See ARREST, Good tidings, my lord Hastings, for the which I do arrest thee, traitor, of high treason. Shaks. There's one yonder arrested, and carried to prison, was worth five thousand of you all. Shakspeare 2. To seize any thing by law. 3. He hath enjoyed nothing of Ford's but twenty pounds of money, which must be paid to master Brook; his horses are arrested for it. Shakspeare. To seize; to lay hands on; to detain by power. But when as Morpheus had with leaden maze Arrested all that goodly company. Fairy Queen Age itself, which, of all things in the world, will not be baffled or defied, shall begin to arrest, seize, and remind us of our mortality. South. 4. To withhold; to hinder. This defect of the English justice was the main impediment that did arrest and stop the course of the conquest. Davies. As often as my dogs with better speed Dryden. Nor could her virtues, nor repeated vows Philips To manifest the coagulative power, we have arrested the fluidity of new milk, and turned it into a curdled substance. Boyla 6. To obstruct; to stop.. Bacon Dict. Ascribing the causes of things to secret pro- To ARRI′DE. v. a. [arrideo, Lat.] 2. 2. [from ad and repo.] Crept in privily. ARREST... [from arrester, Fr. to stop.] 1. [In law.] A stop or stay; as, a man apprehended for debt, is said to be arTo smile; to look pleasantly upon one. rested. To plead in arrest of judgARRIERE. n. s. [French.] The last body ment, is to shew cause why judgment should be stayed, though the verdict of the twelve be passed. To plead in arrest of taking the inquest upon the for of an army, for which we now use rear. The horsemen might issue forth without dis turbance of the foot, and the avant-guard with out shuffling with the battailor arriere. Hayward. ARRIERE BAN. n. s. [Casseneuve derives this word from arriere and ban: ban denotes the convening of the noblesse or vassals, who hold fees immediately of the crown; and arriere, those who only hold of the king mediately.] A general proclamation, by which the king of France summons to the war all that hold of him, both his own vassals or the noblesse, and the vassals of his vassals. ARRIERE FEE, or FIEF. A fee depend ant on a superiour one. These fees commenced, when dukes and counts, rendering their governments hereditary, distributed to their officers parts of the domains, and permitted those officers to gratify the soldiers under them in the same manner. ARRIERE VASSAL. The vassal of a vassal. Trevoux. ARRI'SION. n. s. [arrisio, Lat.] Â smiling Dict. upon. ARRIVAL.M. S. [from arrive.] The act of coming to any place; and, figuratively, the attainment of any purpose. How are we chang'd since we first saw the queen! She, like the sun, does still the same appear, Bright as she was at her arrival here. Waller. The unravelling is the arrival of Ulysses upon his own island. Broome's View of Epic Poetry. ARRIVANCE. n. s. [from arrive.] Company coming. Not in use. Every minute is expectancy Of more arrivance. Shakspeare. To ARRIVE. v. n. [arriver, Fr. to come on shore.] 1. To come to any place by water, At length arriving on the banks of Nile, Wearied with length of ways, and worn with toil, When we were arrived upon the verge of his estate, we stopped at a little inn, to rest ourselves and our horses. Sidney. 3. To reach any point. The bounds of all body we have no difficulty to arrive at; but when the mind is there, it finds nothing to hinder its progress. Locke. 4. To gain any thing by progressive approach. It is the highest wisdom by despising the world to arrive at heaven; they are blessed who converse with God. Taylor. The virtuous may know in speculation, what they could never arrive at by practice, and avoid the snares of the crafty. Addison. The thing at which we arrive is always supposed to be good. 3. To happen: with to before the person. This sense seems not proper. Happy! to whom this glorious death arrives, More to be valued than a thousand lives. Waller. To ARRO DE. v. a. [arrodo, Lat.] To gnaw or nibble. Dict. ARROGANCE. Į n. s. [arrogantia, Lat.] A'RROGANCY. The act or quality of taking much upon one's self; that species of pride which consists in exorbitant claims Stanley, notwithstanding she 's your wife, And loves not me; be you, good ford, assur'd I hate not you for her proud arrogance. Shaks. Pride hath no other glass To shew itself but pride; for supple knees Feed arrogance, and are the proud man's fees. Shakspeare. Pride and arrogance, and the evil way, and the froward mouth, do I hate. Proverbs. Dicoursing of matters dubious, and on any controvertible truths, we cannot, without arrogancy, entreat a credulity. Brown's Vulg. Er. Humility it expresses by the stooping and bending of the head; arrogance, when it is lifted, or, as we say, tossed up. Dryden's Dufresnoy. A'RROGANT adj. [arrogans, Lat.] Given to make exorbitant claims; haughty; proud. Feagh's right unto that country which he claims, or the signiory therein, must be vain and arrogant. Spenser on Ireland. Anarrogant way of treating with other princes and states, is natural to popular governments. Temple A'RROGANTLY. adv. [from arrogant.} In an arrogant manner. Who, not content With fair equality, fraternal state, Will arrogate dominion undeserv'd Over his brethren. Milton Rome never arrogated to herself any infallibi lity, but what she pretended to be founded upon Christ's promise. Tillotson. ARROGATION. n. s. [from arrogate.] A claiming in a proud unjust manner. Dict. ARRO'SION. n. s. [from arrosus, Lat.] A gnawing. Dict. A'RROw. n. s. [anepe, Sax.] The pointed weapon which is shot from a bow. Darts are thrown by the hand, but in poetry they are confounded. I swear to thee by Cupid's strongest bow, By his best arrow with the golden-head. Shaks. Here were boys so desperately resolved, as to pull arrozes out of their flesh, and deliver them to be shot again by the archers on their side. A'RROWHEAD. n. 5. [from arrow and Hayward. head.] A water plant, so called from the resemblance of its leaves to the head of an arrow. Dict. A'RROWY. adj. [from arrow.] Consisting of arrows. He saw them in their forms of battle rang'd How quick they wheel'd, and, flying, behind them shot Sharp sleet of arrowy show'r against the face Of their pursuers, and o'ercame by flight. Milt. ARSE. 7. s. [capre, Sax.] The buttocks, or hind part of an animal. To bang an ARSE. A vulgar phrase, signifying to be tardy, sluggish, or dilatory. For Hudibras wore but one spur, As wisely knowing, could he stir To active trot one side of's horse, The other would not bang an arse. Hudibras. ARSE-FOOT. n. s. A kind of water fowl, called also a didapper. ARSE-SMART. n. s. [persicaria, Lat.] An herb. Dict. ARSENAL. n. s. [arsenale, Ital.] A repository of things requisite to war; a magazine of military stores. I would have a room for the old Roman instruments of war, where you might see all the ancient military furniture, as it might have been in an arsenal of old Rome. Addison. ARSE'NICAL. adj. [from arsenick.] Containing arsenick; consisting of arsenick. An hereditary consumption, or one engendered by arsenical fumes under ground, is incapable of cure. Harvey. There are arsenical, or other like noxious miWoodward. nerals lodged underneath. ARSENICK. n. s. [åçcivizov.] A ponderous mineral substance, volatile and uninflammable, which gives a whiteness to metals in fusion, and proves a violent corrosive poison; of which there are three sorts. Native or yellow arsenick, called also auripigmentum or orpiment, is chiefly found in copper mines. White or crystalline arsenick is extracted from the native kind, by subliming it with a proportion of sea salt: the smallest quantity of crystalline arsenick, being mixed with any metal, absolutely destroys its malleability; and a single grain will turn a pound of copper into a beautiful seeming silver, but without ductility. Red arsenick is a preparation of the white, made by adding to it a Chambers. mineral sulphur. Arsenick is a very deadly poison; held to the fire, it emits fumes, but liquates very little. Woodward on Fossils. ART. n. s. [art, Fr. ars, Lat.] Blest with each grace of nature and of art. Ey'n copious Dryden wanted, or forgot, The last and greatest art, the art to blot. Pepe. 2. A science; as, the liberal arts. Arts that respect the mind were ever reputed nobler than those that serve the body. Ben Jonson. When did his pen on learning fix a brand, Or rails at arts he did not understand? Dryden. A trade. 5. The art of our necessities is stranges That can make vile things precious. Shakspearę. Cunning. More matter with less art. 6. Speculation. Shakspeare. I have as much of this in art as you; But yet my nature could not bear it so. Shaks. ARTERIAL. adj. [from artery.] That relates to the artery; that is contained in the artery. Had not the Maker wrought the springy frame, The blood, defrauded of its nitrous food, Had cool'd and languish'd in th' arterial road. Blackmore. As this mixture of blood and chyle passeth through the arterial tube, it is pressed by two contrary forces; that of the heart driving it forward against the sides of the tubes, and the elastick force of the air pressing it on the opposite sides of those air-bladders, along the surface of which this arterial tube creeps. Arbuthnot. ARTERIO TOMY. n. s. [from engin, and Tiper, to cut.] The operation of letting blood from the artery: a practice much in use among the French. A'RTERY. n. s. [arteria, Lat.] A conical canal, conveying the blood from the heart to all parts of the body. Each artery is composed of three coats; of which the first seems to be a thread of fine blood vessels and nerves, for nourishing the coats of the artery; the second is made up of circular, or rather spiral fibres, of which there are more or fewer strata, according to the bigness of the artery. These fibres have a strong elasticity, by which they contract themselves with some force, when the power by which they have been stretched out ceases. The third and inmost coat is a fine transparent membrane, which keeps the blood within its canal, that otherwise, upon the dilatation of an artery, would easily separate the spiral fibres from one another. As the arteries grow smaller, these coats grow thinner, and the coats of the veins seem only to be continuations of the capillary arteries. Quincy The arteries are elastic tubes, endued with a contractile force, by which they drive the blood still forward; it being hindered from going backArbuthnot. ward by the valves of the heart. A'RTFUL. adj. [from art and full.] 1. Performed with art. The last of these was certainly the most easy, but, for the same reason, the least ariful. Dryd. 2. Artificial; not natural. 3. Cunning; skilful; dexterous. O still the same Ulysses, she rejoin'd, The rest in rank: Honoria, chief in place, ARTFULNESS. n. s. [from artful.] Consider with how much artfulness his bulk and situation is contrived, to have just matter to draw round him these massy bodies. Cheyne. This observation is afforded us by the art of 2. Cunning. making sugar. Boyle. ARTHRITICAL. ARTHRITICK. 4. Artfulness; skill; dexterity. adj. [from arthritis.] 1. Gouty; relating to the gout. Frequent changes produce all the arthritick diseases. Arbuthnot. a. Relating to joints. Serpents, worms, and leaches, though somet want bones, and all extended articulations, yet have they arthritical analogies; and, by the mo tion of fibrous and musculous parts, are able to make progression. Brown's Vulgar Errours. ARTHRITIS. n. s. [açgilis, from Sov, a joint. Any distemper that affects 、the joints, but the gout particularly. Quincy. ARTICHOKE. n. s. [artichault, Fr.] A plant very like the thistle, but hath large scaly heads shaped like the cone of the pine tree; the bottom of each scale, as also at the bottom of the florets, is a thick fleshy eatable substance. Miller. No herbs have curled leaves, but cabbage and cabbage lettuce; none have double leaves, one belonging to the stalk, another to the fruit or seed, but the artichoke. Bacon. Artichokes contain a rich, nutritious, stimulating juice. Arbuthnot on Aliments. ARTICHOKE of Jerusalem. A species of sunflower. ARTICK.adj. [it should be written arctick, from dxlix] Northern; under the bear. See ARCTICK. But they would have winters like those beyond the artick circle; for the sun would be 80 degrees from them. Brown. In the following example it is, contrary to custom, spelt after the French manner, and accented on the last sylIable. To you who live in chill degree, As map informs, of fifty-three, And do not much for cold atone, By bringing thither fifty-one, Methinks all climes should be alike, From tropick e'en to pole artique. ARTICLE. n. s. [articulus, Lat.] 1. A part of speech, as, the, an; the man, an ox. Dryden. 2. A single clause of an account; a particular part of any complex thing. Laws touching matter of order are changeable by the power of the church; articles concerning doctrine not so. Hooker. Have the summary of all our griefs, When time shall serve to shew in articles. Shak. Many believe the article of remission of sins, but believe it without the condition of repentance. We believe the article otherwise than God intended it. Taylor's Holy Living. All the precepts, promises, and threatenings, of the gospel will rise up in judgment against us; and the articles of our faith will be so many articles of accusation; and the great weight of our charge will be this, That we did not obey the gospel which we professed to believe; that we made confession of the christian faith, but lived like heathens. Tillotson. You have small reason to repine upon that article of life. 3. Terms; stipulations. Swift. I embrace these conditions; let us have articles between us. It would have gall'd his surly nature, Which easily endures not article, Tying him to ought. 4. Point of time; exact time. Shakspeare. If Cansfield had not, in that article of time, given them that brisk charge, by which other troops were ready, the king himself had been in danger. Clarendon. To ARTICLE. v. n. [from the noun.] To stipulate; to make terms. Such in love's warfare is my case, I may not article for grace, Having put love at last to show this face. Donne He had not infringed the least tittle of what was articled, that they aimed at one mark, and their ends were concentrick. Howel's Vocal Forest. If it be said, God chose the successor, that is manifestly not so in the story of Jephtha, where he articled with the people, and they made him judge over them. Locke. ARTICLE. v. a. To draw up in particular articles. He whose life seems fair, yet if all his errours and follies were articled against him, the man would seem vicious and miserable. Taylor ARTICULAR. adj. [articularis, Lat.] Belonging to the joints. In medicine, an epithet applied to a disease which more immediately infests the joints. Thus the gout is called morbus articularis. ARTICULATE. adj. [from articulus, Lat.] 1. Distinct; divided, as the parts of a limb are divided by joints; not continued in one tone, as articulate sounds; that is, sounds varied and changed at proper pauses, in opposition to the voice of animals, which admits no such variety. An articulate pronunciation, a manner of speaking clear and distinct, in which one sound is not confounded with another. In speaking under water, when the voice is reduced to an extreme exility, yet the articulate sounds, the words, are not confounded. Bacon. The first, at least, of these I thought deny'd To beasts; whom God, on their creation-day, Created mute to all articulate sound. Milton. Antiquity expressed numbers by the fingers on either hand. On the left they accounted their digits and articulate numbers unto an hundred; on the right hand, hundreds and thousands. Brown's Vulgar Errours. 2. Branched out into articles. This is a meaning little in use. Henry's instructions were extreme curious and articulate; and, in them, more articles touching inquisition, than negotiation: requiring an answer in distinct articles to his questions. Bacon. To ARTICULATE. v. a. [from article] 1. To form words; to utter distinct syllables; to speak as a man. The dogmatist knows not by what art he directs histongue, in articulating sounds into voices. Glanville. Parisian acadernists, in their anatomy of ages, tell us, that the muscles of the tongue, which do most serve to articulate a word, were wholly like those of man. Ray on the Creation. They would advance in knowledge, and not deceive themselves with a little articulated air. Locke 2. To draw up in articles. These things, indeed, you have articulated, Proclaim'd at market-crosses, read in churches, To face the garment of rebellion With some fine colour. Shakspeare. 3. To make terms; to treat. These two latter significations are unusual. |