Webster's Dictionary 1828

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ARBITER

'ARBITER, noun [Latin]1. A person appointed, or chosen by parties in controversy, to decide their differences. This is its sense in the civil law. In modern usage, arbitrator is...

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ARBITRABLE

'ARBITRABLE, adjective Arbitrary; depending on the will.

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ARBITRAMENT

ARBIT'RAMENT, noun1. Will; determination.2. The award of arbitrators. In this sense award is more generally used.

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ARBITRARILY

'ARBITRARILY, adverb By will only; despotically; absolutely.

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ARBITRARINESS

'ARBITRARINESS, noun The quality of being arbitrary; despoticalness; tyranny.

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ARBITRARIOUS

ARBITRA'RIOUS, adjective Arbitrary; despotic. [Not used.]

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ARBITRARIOUSLY

ARBITRA'RIOUSLY, adverb Arbitrarily. [Not used.]

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ARBITRARY

ARBITRARY, adjective [Latin arbitrarious.]1. Depending on will or discretion; not governed by any fixed rules; as, an arbitrary decision; an arbitrary punishment.ARBITRARY power...

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ARBITRATE

'ARBITRATE, verb intransitive [Latin arbitror.]To hear and decide, as arbitrators; as, to choose men to arbitrate between us.'ARBITRATE, verb transitive to decide; to determine;...

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ARBITRATION

ARBITRA'TION, noun1. The hearing and determination of a cause between parties in controversy, by a person or persons chosen by the parties. This may be done by one person; but i...

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ARBITRATOR

'ARBITRATOR, noun A person chosen by a party, or by the parties who have a controversy, to determine their differences. The act of the parties in giving power to the arbitrators...

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ARBITRESS

'ARBITRESS, noun A female arbiter.

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ARBOR

'ARBOR, noun [Latin arbor a tree, and the primary sense.]1. A frame of lattice work, covered with vines, branches of trees or other plants, for shade; a bower.2. In botany, a tr...

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ARBORATOR

'ARBORATOR, noun One who plants or who prunes trees.

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ARBOREOUS

ARBO'REOUS, adjective [Latin arborecus, from arbor.]Belonging to a tree; resembling a tree; constituting a tree; growing on trees, as moss is arboreous

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ARBORESCENCE

ARBORES'CENCE, noun [Latin arboresco, to grow to a tree.]The figure of a tree; the resemblance of a tree in minerals, or crystalizations or groups of crystals in that form.

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ARBORESCENT

ARBORES'CENT, adjective1. Resembling a tree; having the figure of a tree; dendritical.2. From herbaceous becoming woody.ARBORES'CENT STAR-FISH, noun a species of asterias, calle...

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ARBORET

'ARBORET, nounA small tree or shrub; a place planted or overgrown with trees.

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ARBORIST

'ARBORIST, noun One who makes trees his study, or who is versed in the knowledge of trees.

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ARBORIZATION

ARBORIZA'TION, noun The appearance or figure of a tree or plant in minerals, or fossils. [See Herborization.]

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ARBORIZE

'ARBORIZE, verb transitive To form the appearance of a tree or plant in minerals.

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ARBUSCLE

'ARBUSCLE, noun [Latin arbusculus, a little tree.]A dwarf tree, in size between a shrub and a tree.

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ARBUSCULAR

ARBUS'CULAR, adjective Resembling a shrub; having the figure of small trees.

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ARBUSTIVE

ARBUST'IVE, adjective [From arbustum.]Containing copses of trees or shrubs; covered with shrubs.

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ARBUSTUM

ARBUST'UM, noun [Latin See Arbor.] A copse of shrubs or trees; an orchard.

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ARBUTE

'ARBUTE, noun [Latin arbutus.] The strawberry tree.

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ARBUTEAN

ARBU'TEAN, adjective Pertaining to the strawberry tree.