Webster's Dictionary 1913

5563

Aquilon

Aq″ui‐lon (�), n. [L. aquilo, -lonis: cf. F. aquilon.] The north wind. Shak.

5564

Aquiparous

A‐quip″a‐rous (�), a. [L. aqua water + parere to bring forth.] (Med.) Secreting water; — applied to certain glands. Dunglison.

5565

Aquitanian

Aq′ui‐ta″ni‐an (�), a. Of or pertaining to Aquitania, now called Gascony.

5566

Aquose

A‐quose″ (�), a. [L. aquosus watery, fr. aqua. See Aqua, Aqueous.] Watery; aqueous. Bailey.

5567

Aquosity

A‐quos″i‐ty (�), n. [LL. aquositas.] The condition of being wet or watery; wateriness. Huxley.Very little water or aquosity is found in their belly.Holland.

5568

Ar

Ar (�), conj. Ere; before. Chaucer.

5569

Ara

‖A″ra (�), n.(Astron.) The Altar; a southern constellation, south of the tail of the Scorpion.

5570

Ara (2)

‖A″ra (�), n.(Zoöl.) A name of the great blue and yellow macaw (Ara ararauna), native of South America.

5571

Arab

Ar″ab (?; 277), n. [Prob. ultimately fr. Heb. arabah a desert, the name employed, in the Old Testament, to denote the valley of the Jordan and Dead Sea. Ar. Arab, Heb. arabi, ar...

5572

Araba

‖A‐ra″ba (?), n. [Written also aroba and arba.] [Ar. or Turk. 'arabah: cf. Russ. arba.] A wagon or cart, usually heavy and without springs, and often covered.The araba of the Tu...

5573

Arabesque

Ar′a‐besque″ (�), n. [F. arabesque, fr. It. arabesco, fr. Arabo Arab.] A style of ornamentation either painted, inlaid, or carved in low relief. It consists of a pattern in whic...

5574

Arabesque (2)

Ar′a‐besque″, a. 1. Arabian.2. Relating to, or exhibiting, the style of ornament called arabesque; as, arabesque frescoes.

5575

Arabesqued

Ar′a‐besqued″ (�), a. Ornamented in the style of arabesques.

5576

Arabian

A‐ra″bi‐an (�), a. Of or pertaining to Arabia or its inhabitants.Arabian bird, the phenix. Shak.

5577

Arabian (2)

A‐ra″bi‐an, n. A native of Arabia; an Arab.

5578

Arabic

Ar″a‐bic (�), a. [L. Arabicus, fr. Arabia.] Of or pertaining to Arabia or the Arabians.Arabic numerals or figures, the nine digits, 1, 2, 3, etc., and the cipher 0. — Gum arabic...

5579

Arabic (2)

Ar″a‐bic, n. The language of the Arabians.☞ The Arabic is a Semitic language, allied to the Hebrew. It is very widely diffused, being the language in which all Mohammedans must ...

5580

Arabical

A‐rab″ic‐al (�), a. Relating to Arabia; Arabic. — A‐rab″ic‐al‐ly, adv.

5581

Arabin

Ar″a‐bin (�), n. 1. (Chem.) A carbohydrate, isomeric with cane sugar, contained in gum arabic, from which it is extracted as a white, amorphous substance.2. Mucilage, especially...

5582

Arabinose

Ar″a‐bin‐ose′ (�), n.(Chem.) A sugar of the composition C5H10O5, obtained from cherry gum by boiling it with dilute sulphuric acid.

5583

Arabism

Ar″a‐bism (�), n. [Cf. F. Arabisme.] An Arabic idiom peculiarly of language. Stuart.

5584

Arabist

Ar′a‐bist (�), n. [Cf. F. Arabiste.] One well versed in the Arabic language or literature; also, formerly, one who followed the Arabic system of surgery.

5585

Arable

Ar″a‐ble (�), a. [F. arable, L. arabilis, fr. arare to plow, akin to Gr. �, E. ear, to plow. See Earable.] Fit for plowing or tillage; — hence, often applied to land which has b...

5586

Arable (2)

Ar″a‐ble, n. Arable land; plow land.

5587

Araby

Ar″a‐by (�), n. The country of Arabia.

5588

Aracanese

‖Ar′a‐ca‐nese″ (�), a. Of or pertaining to Aracan, a province of British Burmah. — n. sing. & pl. A native or natives of Aracan.

5589

Araçari

‖A′ra‐ça″ri (�), n.(Zoöl.) A South American bird, of the genus Pleroglossius, allied to the toucans. There are several species.