Webster's Dictionary 1828

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AREA

A'REA, noun [Latin I suspect this to be contracted from Heb. from a root which signifies to reach, stretch, lay or spread.]1. Any plain surface, as the floor of a room, of a chu...

3512

AREAD

AREA'D,A'REAL, adjective Pertaining to an area; as areal interstices.

3513

AREAL

A'REAL, a. Pertaining to an area; as areal interstices.

3514

AREED

AREE'D, verb transitive To counsel; to advise. obsolete

3515

AREEK

AREE'K, adverb In a reeking condition. [See Reek.]

3516

AREFACTION

AREFAC'TION, noun [Latin arefacio, to dry, from aero.] The act of drying; the state of growing dry.

3517

AREFY

AR'EFY, verb transitive To dry or make dry.

3518

ARENA

ARE'NA, noun [Latin sand.]1. An open space of ground strewed with sand, on which the gladiators, in ancient Rome, exhibited shows of fighting for the amusement of spectators. He...

3519

ARENACEOUS

ARENA'CEOUS, adjective [from arena, sand.]1. Sandy; having the properties of sand.2. Brittle; as arenaceous limestone.

3520

ARENATION

ARENA'TION, noun Among physicians, a sand bath; a sprinkling of hot sand upon a diseased person.

3521

ARENDALITE

AREN'DALITE, noun In mineralogy, another name of epidote, or pistacite; epidote being the name given to it by Hauy, and pistacite by Werner. [See Epidote.]

3522

ARENDATOR

ARENDA'TOR, nounIn Livonia and other provinces of Russia, a farmer of the farms or rents; one who contracts with the crown for the rents of the farms. He who rents an estate bel...

3523

ARENILITIC

ARENILIT'IC, adjective [arena, sand, and a stone.]Pertaining to sand stone; consisting of sand stone; as arenilite mountains.

3524

ARENOSE

ARENO'SE,AR'ENOUS, adjective Sandy; full of sand.

3525

ARENOUS

AR'ENOUS, a. Sandy; full of sand.

3526

AREOLA

AREO'LA, noun [Latin] The colored circle round the nipple or round a pustule.

3527

AREOLE

AR'EOLE,AREOM'ETER, noun [Gr. rare, thin, and to measure.]An instrument for measuring the specific gravity of liquids.

3528

AREOMETER

AREOM'ETER, n. [Gr. rare, thin, and to measure.]An instrument for measuring the specific gravity of liquids.

3529

AREOMETRICAL

AREOMET'RICAL, adjective Pertaining to an areometer.

3530

AREOMETRY

AREOM'ETRY, noun The measuring or act of measuring the specific gravity of fluids.

3531

AREOPAGITE

AREOP'AGITE, noun A member of the Areopagus, which see.Acts 17:34.

3532

AREOPAGITIC

AREOPAGIT'IC, adjective Pertaining to the Areopagus.

3533

AREOPAGUS

AREOP'AGUS, noun [Gr. Mars, and hills.]A sovereign tribunal at Athens, famous for the justice and impartiality of its decisions. It was originally held on a hill in the city; bu...

3534

AREOTIC

AREOT'IC, adjective [Gr. thin.] Attenuating; making thin, as in liquids; rarefying.AREOT'IC, noun A medicine, which attenuates the humors, dissolves viscidity, opens the pores, ...

3535

ARETOLOGY

ARETOL'OGY, noun [Gr. virtue, and discourse.]That part of moral philosophy which treats of virtue, its nature and the means of attaining to it. [Little used.]

3536

ARGAL

'ARGAL, noun Unrefined or crude tartar, a substance adhering to the sides of wine casks.

3537

ARGEAN

ARGE'AN, adjective Pertaining to Argo or the Ark.