ARGENT
'ARGENT, noun [Latin argentum; Gr. silver, from white.]1. The white color in coats of arms, intended to represent silver, or purity, innocence, beauty, or gentleness.2.adjective...
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ARGENT-HORNED
'ARGENT-HORNED, adjective Silver horned.
ARGENTAL
ARGENT'AL, adjective Pertaining to silver; consisting of silver; containing silver; combined with silver; applied to the native amalgam of silver, as argental mercury.
ARGENTATE
'ARGENTATE, noun A combination of the argentic acid with another substance.
ARGENTATION
ARGENTA'TION, noun An overlaying with silver.
ARGENTIC
ARGENT'IC, adjective Pertaining to silver; the argentic acid is a saturated combination of silver and oxygen. This is yet hypothetical.
ARGENTIFEROUS
ARGENTIF'EROUS, adjective [Latin argentum, silver, and fero, to produce.] Producing silver; as argentiferous ore.
ARGENTINA
ARGENTI'NA,'ARGENTINE, noun In ichthyology, a genus of fishes of the order of abdominals.Argentina is also a name of the wild tansy, silver-weed.'ARGENTINE, adjective Like silve...
ARGENTINE
'ARGENTINE,n. In ichthyology, a genus of fishes of the order of abdominals.Argentina is also a name of the wild tansy, silver-weed.
ARGIL
'ARGIL, noun A species of the Ardea, or genus of cranes.'ARGIL, noun [Latin argilla, white clay, from Gr. white.]In a general sense, clay, or potter's earth; but in a technical ...
ARGILLACEOUS
ARGILLA'CEOUS, adjective [Latin argillaceus.] Partaking of the nature of clay; clayey; consisting of argil.
ARGILLIFEROUS
ARGILLIF'EROUS, adjective [Latin argilla, clay, and fero, to produce.] Producing clay; applied to such earths as abound with argil.
ARGILLITE
'ARGILLITE, noun Argillaceous shist or slate; clay-slate. Its usual color is bluish, greenish or blackish gray.
ARGILLITIC
ARGILLIT'IC, adjective Pertaining to argillite.
ARGILLOCALCITE
ARGILLOCAL'CITE, noun [of argilla, clay, and calx, calcarious earth.]A species of calcarious earth, with a large proportion of clay.
ARGILLOMURITE
ARGILLOMU'RITE, noun [of argilla, clay, and muria, brine or salt water; magnesia being obtained from sea-salt.]A species of earth consisting of magnesia, mixed with silex, alumi...
ARGILLOUS
ARGIL'LOUS, adjective Consisting of clay; clayey; parting of clay; belonging to clay.
ARGIVE
'ARGIVE, adjective Designating what belongs to Argos, the capital of Argolis in Greece, whose inhabitants were called Argivi. This name however is used by the poets for the Gree...
ARGO
ARGO, noun The name of the ship which carried Jason and his fifty-four companions to Colchis, in quest of the golden fleece.
ARGO-NAVIS
ARGO-NAVIS, The ship Argo, is a constellation in the southern hemisphere, whose stars, in the British catalogue, are sixty-four.
ARGOAN
ARGO'AN, adjective Pertaining to the ship Argo.
ARGOLIC
ARGOL'IC, adjective Belonging to Argolis, a territory or district of Peloponnese, between Arcadia and the Egean sea; as the argolic Gulf.
ARGOLICS
ARGOL'ICS, noun The title of a chapter in Pausanias, which treats of Argolis.
ARGONAUT
ARGONAUT, noun [of Jason's ship, and a sailor.]One of the persons who sailed to Colchis with Jason, in the Argo, in quest of the golden fleece.
ARGONAUTA
ARGONAUT'A, noun [See Argonaut.]A genus of shell-fish, of the order of vermes testacea. The shell consists of one spiral involuted valve. There are several species; one of which...
ARGONAUTIC
ARGONAUT'IC, adjective Pertaining to the Argonauts, or to their voyage to Colchis; as the argonautic story.
ARGONAUTICS
ARGONAUT'ICS, noun A poem on the subject of Jason's voyage, or the expedition of the Argonauts; as, the argonautics of Orpheus, of V. Flaccus, and of Apollonius Rhodius.