Fastidious or else listless, or perhaps Aware of nothing arduous in a task They never undertook, they little note His dangers or escapes, and haply find There least amusement where he found the most. Cowper. Task, b. ii. ARE. An attempt must be made to acART. count for this word, commonly called an auxiliary verb, and the plural of the present tense of the verb to be. It seems very probable that the primitive meaning is front or fore:-The front part of the body, as opposed to the hind or back. In Goth. Air; A. S. Ær, is prius, ante, before. In Gr. eap, np, is the fore or early part of the year or day, the spring, the morning. We then find that the A. S. Ar, Are, D. Eere, is used to denote honour; and the V. in A. S. Ar-ian; D. Eer-en; Ger. Er-en; Sw. Er-a, to honour; i. e. to put or place forward, before others, to advance, to prefer. In Sw. Ara, is a messenger, an errand, or arrand-bearer, one sent forth or forward; and the Ger. Er-en is also to bear or carry an errand. Hence there seems no violence in the inference that

Are is To stand forward, to stand forth, to put or place forward or forth; -to exist, (ex-sistere, ex-stare.)

Art, A. S. Eart, is Ared, Ar'd, Art, now restricted to the second person singular. The regular plural of Are is Ar-en: it has been long used without the termination. Wielif commonly uses ben. i. e. be-en in all the persons plural.

His sonnes er at thi wille, and alle that with them be.
R. Brunne, p. 60.
Thei stand all to gode graith, when thou ert tham among.
Id. p. 193.
Thise Inglis (said R.) in my kepyng thei are.-Id. p. 192.
Tho ilk fiue sorowes he calles fiue woundes
That are not yit haled [healed.]—Id. p. 7.
Fiue sorowes that yit not ended are.-Id. Ib.

Beggers and barons at debat aren often.

And take the my dogter; for mon thou art y wys, To wynne git a kyndom, wel beter than myn ys. R. Gloucester, p. 13. As muche as thou hast, as muche thou art worth y wys. Id. p. 30. Piers Plouhman, p. 93. Rygt so flatterers and foles aren the fendes procuratores. Id. p. 114. Ethr thou ert broke so may be. in body othr in membre. Id. p. 76. Jesus spak to hem and seide, have ye trist, I am, nyle ye drede. And Petir answerede and seide, lord if thou art; commaunde me to come to thee on the watres.

Wiclif. Mat. c. 14. Heeres hore aren shad ouertimeliche upon my head. Chaucer. Boecius de Cons. b. i. Truly [qd I.] I say that ianglers euermore arne speaking rather of euill than of good.-Id. Test. of Loue, b. i.

A'REA, from Lat. Arere, to dry (Vossius). An area is a place where corn, when reaped, may be thrashed and dried.

Open places in a city are, (Varro,) and more generally any open, though bounden space, is, so called.

In a room contriv'd for state, the height of the roof shou'd bear a proportion to the area.-Dryden. Ded. to Span. Fryar.

Let us conceive a floor or area of goodly length, (for example, at least of 120 foot) with the breadth somewhat more than the half of the longitude.

Wotton. Reliquiæ, p. 45.

But none of them the sooth arad.-Gower. Con. A. b. i.
This sweuen can I well arede,
Quod the other sarasine anone,

The barly cake is Gedeon.-Id. Ib. b. vii.

While they were on a time for their sport purposing riddles amōg the, she beganne to put forth one of hers to, and said, arede my riddle, what is that, I knew one that shot at an hart and killed an haddoke. Sir T. More. Workes, p. 552. But stay, my muse, in height of all this speed; Somewhat plucks back to quench this sacred heat, And many perils doth to us areed, In that whereof we seriously entreat.

Drayton. Moses, b. ii.

Who ever saw a colt wanton and wilde,
Yok'd with a slow-foote oxe on fallow field,
Can right areed how handsomly besets
Duli spondees with the English dactilets.

Bp. Hall, b. i. Sat. 6. He who shall endeavour the amendment of any old neglected grievance in church or state, or in the daily course of life, if he be gifted with abilities of mind that may raise him to so high an undertaking, I grant he hath already much wherof not to repent him, yet let me arreed him, not to be the foreman of any misjudg'd opinion, unless his resolutions be firmly seated in a square and constant mind, not conscious to itself of any deserved blame, and regardless of ungrounded suspicions.

Milton. Of Divorce. To the Parlament.

ARE/CHE. A. S. Areccan, to get, to obARA'UGHT. tain, to attain or achieve; to reach, to take (Somner.) See REACH.

For yet perchance I maie purchace
With some good word the kynges grace,
Your life and eke your good to saue.
For ofte shall a woman haue

Thyng, whiche a man maie not areche.

And if it might so betide
That he vpon the blynde side
Parcas the swete tonne araught,

Gower. Con. A. b. i.

Than shalte thou haue a lustie draught.-Id. Ib. b. vi.
Otuel, for wrath, anon

Areight him on the cheek-bone;
All tho fell off that was there,

And made his teeth all bare. Sir Otuel. Ellis, vol. ii.
A'REFY.
Lat. Arefacere, to make dry,
AREFACTION. from arere, to dry, and fucere, to

make.

To dry, or cause to be dry.

Time and heat are fellows in many effects: heat drieth bodies that do easily expire; as parchment, leaves, roots, clay, etc.; and so doth time or age arefy; as if in the same bodies.-Bacon. Nat. Hist. § 294.

Some breed in hair of living creatures, as lice and tikes;

Herevnto may be added the arena, the place below in which their games were exhibited, so called, for that it was strowed ouer with sand for the drinking in of the bloud, which was spilt vpon it, and officers they had purposely for this business, who in the lawes and writings of the Christian doctours are tearmed, arenarii, Sanders. Hakewill. Apologie, p. 396.

Of fishes they [the Jews] onely tast of such as have both fins and scales; which are comparatively but few in number; such onely, saith Aristotle, whose egg or spawn is arenaceous.-Brown. Vulgar Errours, b. iv. c. 10.

By this means we may discover whether it [land] consists of substances intirely arenaceous or clammy. Miller. In v. Mould.

In the centre of the edifice, the arena, or stage, was strewed with the finest sand, and successively assumed the most different forms.-Gibbon. History, vol. ii. c. 12.

AREOPAGY. Gr. Αρειοπαγος, (Αρειος παγος, Mars's hill.

A court, said to be the most sacred and vener able assembly in all Greece. Applied met. by Brown to

Severity of sentence, of punishment.

Plato and Aristotle were guilty of the same truth; wh demonstratively understanding the simplicity of perfectio and the indivisible condition of the first causator, it was n in the power of earth, or areopagy of hell to work them fro it.-Brown. Vulgar Errours, b. i. c. 10.

ARE'RE.

A. S. Aræran, to rear or raise up to erect, to excite. See REAR. R. Gloucester is speaking of Stonhyngyl, i Stonehenge :

That vche [each] mon wondre may how heo were fi a rered. R. Gloucester, p. 7.

For ther nas prince non that hym dorste arere strif So that he huld tho this lond in pes al is lyf.-Id. p. 89 And as Moyses areride a serpent in desert, so it bihou mannes sone to be reisid; that ech man that beleeueth him perische not, but haue euerlastinge lyf.

To fore the towers when he Eneas saw Foundacions cast, arereing lodges new.

Wiclif. Ion, c

Surrey. Virgile. Eneis, b.

Chaucer. The Rom. of the

As the kyng rod with duykes and earlis,
He mette with two olde cheorlis.
To the navel theo berd heng:
Thus areasoned heom the kyng.

King Alisaunder. Webber. Romances, ARETTE. In Bar. Lat. is found Arre the same, says Du Cange, as Retare, Rettar Rectare; to warn an accused person to do (Rectum), to summon to justice. Arrette, Skinner, seems to mean to censure, to esti from the Fr. Arrester, to judge. Tyrwhitt,—t pute to. The Gr. Aovicou, is rendered b Vulgate, Imputor, Reputor, and these by Arette. Tindall translates the Greek vari to conte, to reckon, to impute, to lay t Id. Advancement of Learning, b. ii. charge. Perhaps Arette is Àrate, to rate,

which are bred by the sweat close kept, and somewhat arefied by the hair.-Id. Ib. § 696.

It is more probable, that he, that knoweth the nature of arefaction, the nature of assimilation, &c. shall, by ambages of diets, &c. prolong life, or restore some degree of youth or vivacity, than that it can be done with the use of a few drops, or scruples of a liquor or receipt.

Greater agitations [the chaotical matter had] in the production of the other, the separation of the water and the arefaction of the earth.-Hale. Orig. of Mankind, p. 302. ARENA. Fr. Arène: It. Arena, ArenoARENA CEOUS. 80; Lat. Arena, sand, from Arere, to dry (quia arida bibulaque), because dry and bibulous.

from Reor, ratus

To reckon, value, estimate; to place to th count, to lay to the charge, to impute.

Sotheli to him that worchith not, but bileueth in that iustifieth a wicked man, his feith is arettid to ris nesse aftir the purpos of goddis grace.-Wiclif. Rom

To hym that worketh not, but beleueth on him fyeth the vngodly, is his fayth counted for ryghtewe Bible, 1

For if he hath ony thing anoyed thee either owit thou this thing to me.-Wiclif. Filemon.

But firate I praie you of your curtesie,

That ye ne arette it not my vilanie,
Though that I plainly speke in this matere,
To tellen you hir wordes and hir chere.

Chaucer. The Prologue, v. 728. Yet comen ther of ire many mo sinnes, as wel in worde, as in thought and indede; as he that arretteth upon God, or ameth God of the thing of which he is himself gilty. Id. The Persones Tale.

A'RGENT. Fr. Argent; It. Argento; Sp. ARGENTINE. Argen; Lat. Argentum, silver, A/RGENTRY. from Άργυρος, so called, παρα το apy, from its whiteness.

Silvery; having the appearances of silver.

And dyrecte against the gate was deuised a hallpas, and at theatry of the staier was images of sore and terrible coutenances, all armed in curious woorke of argentyne. Hall. Hen. VIII. an. 12.

The duke lookt vp, and saw the azure skie,
With argent beames of siluer morning spred,
And started vp, for praise and vertue lie
In teil and trauell, sinne and shame in bed.

Fairefax. Tasso, b. xiv.

Potter's clay, (Tyrwhitt.)

Argos is enumerated by the Channones Yeman, among the things to their craft appertaining.-Chaucer, v. 16,281. The observations of Alberquerque, and Stephanus de Game derive this redness from the colour of the sand and #y earth at the bottom [i. e. of the Red Sea.]

Brown. Vulgar Errours, b. vi. c. 9. ARGOSY. In the Lat. of the middle ages, Argis seems to have been used for a ship, so called, says Du Cange, ab Argo, the name of the first ship. And he cites, "Argis haud modica mercoas referta; perhaps An Argosie," deeply

laden with merchandize.

Some troops pursue the bloody-minded Queene,
That led calme Henry, though he were a King,
As deth a sailer fill'd with a fretting gust
Command an argosie to stemme the waues.

Shakespeare. 3 Part Hen. VI.

A thousand soldiers (many times and more)

Besides the sails, and arms for every one,
Cordage and anchors, and provision,

The large spread sails, the masts both big and tall,
Of all which Noah's ark had no need at all.

ARGUE, &

ARGUER

ARGUMENT, E. ARGUMENT, A ARGUMENTAL. ARGUMENTATION. ARGUMENTATIVE. ARGUMENTATIVELY.

ARGUMENTIZE.

Drayton. Noah's Flood. Fr. Arguer; It. Arguire, Argomentare; Sp. Arguir; Lat. Arguere; plainly, says Vossius, from apyos, clear, manifest.

To make clear, evident, manifest; to shew, to prove, to convince or convict.

To shew (the reasons of any thing); to reason, to discuss, to treat of, to debate; to dispute. Argement is not only applied to the reason, the sing; but to the subject reasoned, discoursed, treated of; the statement or summary of the Lyst or subjects.

Plate the poete. ich putte hym ferst to booke Aristotle and other, to arguen ich tauhte. Piers Plouhman, p. 189. To which he shewide himsilff alyue aftir his passioun bi argumentis apperynge to hem fourti daies and spee of the reame of God.-Wielif. Dedis, c. 1.

1 az el, clerkes wol sain as hem lest

Byaments, that all is for the best,
Taugh I be can the causes naught yknow.

Chaucer. The Frankeletnes Tale. v. 11,198.

And euery gouernance is due

To pitee, thus I maie argue,

That pitee is the foundemente

Of euery kynges regimente.-Gower. Con. A. b.vii.

As for conclusion finall,

That euery lust is to eschewe,

By great ensample I maie argeue.-Id. Ib.

For trothe mote stande at laste,
But yet thei argumenten faste
Upon the pope and his astate

Wherof thei fallen in great debate.-Id. Ib. The Prol.

Samuel being an innocent judge (the people themselues to wytnesse) argueth the people of vnkindnesse because they demaunded a Kyng.-Bible, 1557. 1 Sam. c. 12.

If thou shouldest say to hym, that hath ye spirite of God, the loue of God is the kepyng of the comaundements, and to loue a mans neighbour is to shew mercy, he would without arguyng or disputyng vnderstand, how that of the loue of God springeth the keping of his cōmaundements, and of the loue to thy neighbour spryngeth mercy. Tyndall. Workes, p. 88.

The dukes of Clarence, Gloucester and Yorke were of same opinion, thynkyng it most conuenient to marche towarde theyr enemies with all spede and celeritie, least in prolongynge of tyme and arguynge of opinions, the Frenche armye might more and more increase and hourly multiply. Hall. Hen. V. an. 3.

The Greeke titles declare, yt this epistle was sent frō Philippos by Titus and Lucas. But ye brief argumentes which are found in Latin bokes, without any autours name, recorde and testifie that it was by the same messangiers sente from Troas, for of thys place Paule maketh mencyon in the seconde Chapter of thys presente Epistle. Udal. Argument upon 2 Corin. Which maner of argumentation, how false and naught it is euery sophister, and euery man that hath witte perceiueth. Tyndall. Workes, p. 461. Her looks doth argue her replete with modesty, Her words doth shew her wit incomparable, All her perfections challenge soueraigntie.

Shakespeare. 3 Part Hen. VI. Act iii. sc. 2. Eve, thy contempt of life and pleasure seems, To argue in thee somthing more sublime, And excellent then what thy mind contemnes.

Millon. Paradise Lost, b. x.

I doe much wonder, that one man seeing how much another man is a foole, when he dedicates his behauiours to loue, will after hee hath laught at such shallow follies in others, become the argument of his owne scorne, by falling in loue. Shakespeare. Much Adoe, Actii. sc. 3. And never view,

Bristl'd with upright beams innumerable
Of rigid spears, and helmets throng'd, and shields.
Various with boastful argument portraid.
Milton. Paradise Lost, b. vi.

Not sedulous by nature to indite,
Warrs, hitherto the onely argument
Heroic deem'd.

Id. Ib. b. ix.

Nor do they oppose things of this nature argumentatively, so much as oratoriously.-Bp. Taylor. Artif. Handsomeness. As it is practically false, so also it is argumentatively weak and unconcluding.

Hammond. Works, vol. ii. p. 28.

They make Æneas little better than a kind of St. Swithen neroe, always raining. One of these censors is bold enough to argue him of cowardise; when in the beginning of the First Book, he not only weeps, but trembles at an approaching storm.-Dryden. Ded. to Virgil's Eneis.

I shall say the less of Mr. Collier, because of many things he has taxed me justly; and I have pleaded guilty to all thoughts and expressions of mine, which can be truly argued of obscenity, profaneness, or immorality, and retract them. Id. Pref. to Fables.

The Lords Hallifax, Nottingham, and Mordaunt, were the chief arguers among the temporal lords [for the test.] Burnet. Own Time. an. 1685.

You are not one of those timorous arguers, who tremble at every objection raised against their opinion or belief, and are so intent in upholding their own side of the argument, that they are unable to make the least concession on the other.-Shaftesbury. Charact. pt. ii. The Moralists.

He the said [Dr. Rydley] had a hand also in compiling of the Common Prayer-Book, now in use among us, as also disputations, arguings, communications, and conferences about matters of religion in the book of acts and monuments of the church, written by Joh. Fox. Wood. Athenæ Oxon. The time being come, they appeared, but Griffin being put to it for want of the true way of argumentizing, the disputation was deferred to another day.-Id. Ib. J. Biddle.

There is no greater, at least no more palpable and convincing argument of the existence of a Deity, than the admirable art and wisdom that discovers itself in the make

and constitution, the order and disposition, the ends and uses of all the parts and members of this stately fabric of heaven and earth.-Ray. On the Creation.

Bare lyes with bold assertions they can face,
But dint of argument is out of place.
The grim Logician puts 'em in a fright,
'Tis easier far to flourish than to fight.

Dryden. Hind & Panther. They say the quickness of repartees in argumentative scenes receive an ornament from verse.

Id. Essay. On Dramatick Poesie. Argumentation or reasoning is that operation of the mind, whereby we infer one thing, that is, one proposition, from two or more propositions premised.-Watts. Logick, Introd.

When we peruse those authors who defend our own settled sentiments, we should not take all their arguings for just and solid.-Id. On the Imp. of the Mind, pt. i. c. 4.

I am at length recovered from my argumentul delirium, and find myself in the state of one awakened from the confusion and tumult of a feverish dream. Johnson. Rambler, No. 95.

Avoid as much as you can, in mixed companies, argumentative, polemical conversations.-Chesterfield, Let. 166.

ARGUTE. ARGU'TENESS. ARGUTA'TIONS.

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Fr. Argutie; It. Arguto; Lat. Argutus; past part. of Arguere,to make clear, evident. Clear, brisk, sharp, subtle.

fully convince their calumnies and false suggestions, and Whose [thy Divine Scriptures] evident demonstrations do vindicate thy Holy Name and blessed Deity from all their devilish and frivilous argutations.

Bp. Hall. Mystery of Godliness, s. 8.

I wis, it is not the force of their argutation, that could move me one foot forward.-Id. Answer to an Epistle.

This [Seneca] tickles you by starts with his arguteness, that [Plutarch] pleases you for continuance with his propriety. Dryden. Life of Plutarch.

There have been those, who have not only advanced doubts concerning propositions attested to by clearest sense, and inferred by strongest discourse; but have by their argute cavillations bid fair to shake the foundations of all human science.-Barrow. Ser. On the Trinity.

I will have him, continued my father, cheerful, faceté, jovial; at the same time prudent, attentive to business, vigilant, acute, argute, inventive, quick in resolving doubts and speculative questions. Sterne. Tristram Shandy, vol. vi. c. 5. You are wrong,-said my father argutely; and for this plain reason. Id. Ib. vol. v. c. 31.

Such volley pour'd the Greeks, and such return'd
The Trojans; arid casques of tough bull hide,
And bossy shields resounded, by that storm
Of millstone masses from above assail'd.

Cowper. Homer. Iliad, b. xii. ARIETA'TION. Fr. Arietant; Lat. Arietare, to butt, push, or strike like a ram (aries); of doubtful etymology.

Butting, pushing, striking.

And how those heterogeneous atomes should by themselves hit so exactly into their proper residence in the midst of such tumultuary motions, cross thwartings, and arietations of other particles, especially when for one way of hitting right, there are thousands of missing.

Glanvil. Of Dogmatizing, c. 5.

The conditions of weapons, and their improvement are, first, the fetching afar off; for that outruns the danger; as it is seen in ordnance and in muskets. Secondly, the strength of the percussion; wherein likewise ordnance do exceed all arietations and ancient inventions.

ARIGHT.

Bacon, Ess. 58. See

On right, rightly, justly.

RIGHT.
Ther were duntes arygt, and suerdes wel ydraw.

R. Gloucester, p. 218.

Our Hoste lough and swore, So mote I gon
This goth aright: unbokeled is the male;
Let see now who shal tell another tale:
For trewely this game is wel begonne.

Chaucer. The Milleres Prologue, v. 3117.

-Thou wolde be taught aright What mischiefe bakbyting dooth.-Gower. Con. A. b. ii.

The cause is, he hath not God's spirite in him, and therefore vnderstandeth it not a right, neither worketh a right. Tyndall. Workes, p. 75. -By thir guise Just men they seem'd, and all thir study bent To worship God aright, and know his works Not hid. Milton. Paradise Lost, b. xi.

I understand by it [wisdom], an habitual skill or faculty of judging aright about matters of practice, and choosing according to that right judgment, and conforming the actions to such good choice.-Barrow, vol. i. Ser. 1.

Now may we plainly see,-the blindest may-
Jove granting vict'ry to the pow'rs of Troy.
Whose every weapon, whether shaft or spear,
From base or brave, himself directs aright.

Cowper. Homer. Iliad, b. xvii.

ARIOLATION. Hariolus prius fuit Fariolus, a fari, sive fando, (Vossius.) Hariolari, to speak of, to prophesy, to divine. See another instance under AUSPICIATE.

Some of his phisycions, and arioles, and charmers whan they sawe no remedy, than they said surely howe the kynge was poysoned or bewytched, by crafte of sorcerye. Froissart. Cronycle, vol. i. c. 220. The priests of elder time have put upon them many incredible conceits, deluding their apprehensions with ariolation, sooth-saying and such oblique idolatries.

Brown. Vulgar Errours, b. i. c. 3.

ARI'SE, v. A. S. Aris-an, to move up or ARI'SE, n. above. See RISE and RAISE. ARI'SING, n. To get up, mount, or ascend; to grow, spring upwards; and thus to come into view or notice; to become conspicuous, eminent; to become of greater value or esteem.

And the Brytones a ryse faste, so that, thorw Gode's grace,
Heo hadde the maistry of the feld.-R. Gloucester, p. 50.
Ac that heo mygte ofte y se, in cler weder, there

Est ward, as the sonne a ros, a lond as yt were.-Id. p. 41.
Er it was day, as she was wont to do,
She was arisen, and all redy dight.

Chaucer. The Knightes Tale, v. 1043.

But oft for defaute of bondes
All sodeinly, er it be wist,
A tunne, whan his lie arist

To breketh, and renneth all aboute,
Whiche els shulde nought gone out.

Gower. Con. A. The Prol. They beleued yt his soule should not be left in hell, but that he should arise frō death and reigne euerlastyng with hys father.-Fryth. Workes, p. 111.

After all this [I traicte] of his death, of his beeyng laied in graue, of his arisyng again from death to life, and of his returnyng vp into heauen.-Udal. The Prol. to Luke.

And thus we see the account established upon the arise or descent of the stars can be no reasonable rule unto distant nations at all, and by reason of their retrogression but temporary unto any one.-Brown. Vulgar Errours, b. vi. c. 3.

And I dare boldly promise for this play, that in the roughness of the members and cadences, (which I assure was not casual, but so designed,) you will see somewhat more masterly arising to your view, than in most, if not any of my former tragedies.-Dryden. Preface to Don Sebastian.

No grateful dews descend from evening skies,
Nor morning odours from the flow'rs arise.

Pope. Past. Winter.
After a wet and stormy night we rejoice to see the morning
arise, with all the signs of a calm and splendid day.
Gilpin. Tour to the Lakes.

It seemeth by him and other Latine writers (the best recorders of kingdomes affaires), this Iland was gouerned rather after the maner of an aristocratie, that is, by certaine, great nobles and potent men, then vnder the commaund of any one as an absolute monarch; though herein is a difference, in that in the aristocraticall regiment, the rulers are all Peers of one common wealth; whereas here, as many Princes, so many seuerall publike weales. Speed. Hist. of Great Britaine, c. 5.

At the first entrance into the hall or great chamber, they see that they were not summoned aristocratically to a senate and after a popular manner to supper where the poorest may house of lords and great tes, but invited democratically take his place with the richest.

Holland. Plutarch, p. 530.

Even in the most equal aristocracy, the ballance cannot be so justly pois'd, but some one will be superiour to the rest; either in parts, fortune, interest, or the consideration of some glorious exploit; which will reduce the greatest part of business into his hands.-Dryden. On Dram. Poesie.

As to the other forms of government, Socrates would say, "That when the chief offices of the common-wealth were lodged in the hands of a small number of the most eminent citizens, it was called an aristocracy."

Xenophon. Mem. of Socrates, b. vi.

Thus he, well-caution'd that in Chalchis, pow'r
Aristocratick, both in wealth and strength,
Out-weighed the people.-Glover. Athenaid, b. xv.

The whole Christian world, the universal church, is by some pretended to be monarchically, or by other aristocratically governed.-Hammond. Works, vol. ii. pt. ii. p. 97.

The legislature of the kingdom is entrusted to three distinct powers, entirely independent of each other; first. the king; secondly, the lords spiritual and temporal, which is an aristocratical assembly of persons selected for their piety, their birth, their wisdom, their valour, or their property; and thirdly, the House of Commons.

Blackstone. Commentaries, Introd. § 2.

For in the lond ther n'as no craftes man
That geometrie, or arsmetrike can,
Ne portreiour, ne kerver of images,
That Theseus ne yaf him mete and wages
The theatre for to maken and devise.

Chaucer. The Knightes Tale, v. 1900. Pamphilus was a Macedonian borne, but of all painters, the first that gave his mind to other good literature, and especially to arithmeticke and geometrie.

Holland. Plinie, b. xxxv. c. 10.

Lycurgus chased out of Lacedæmon arithmetical proportion, as a popular thing, turbulent and apt to make commotions: but he brought in the geometrical, as befitting the civil and modest government of some few wise sages. Id. Plutarch, p. 629. For certes, saies he,

I haue already chose mine officer. And what was he? For-sooth, a great arithmatician.

Shakespeare. Othello, Act i. sc. 1. In arithmetick we regard not the things but the signs, which nevertheless are not regarded for their own sake, but because they direct us how to act with relation to things and dispose rightly of them.

Berkeley. Human Knowledge, pt. i. § 122.

There may be some, who, deluded by the specious shew of discovering abstracted verities, waste their time in arithmetical theoremes and problemes, which have not any use. Id. Ib. § 121. Though the fifth part of a xestes, being a fraction, and arithmetically regular, it is yet no proper part of that measure.-Arbuthnot. On Coins.

It. Sp. Arca; Lat. Arca,

ARKED. } from Arcere, to confine, to contain.

A chest, a coffer.

Applied especially to the ark or close vessel that contained Noah and his family; and to the coffer in which the covenant was deposited.

And aftir the veil the secounde tabernacle, that is seid sancta sanctorum, that is hooli of hooli thingis hauynge a goldun censer and the arke of the testament. Wiclif. Ebrewis, c. 9.

But within the seconde vayle was ther a tabernacle, which arcke of ye testamet.-Bible, 1539. is called holyest of all, whych had the golden senser, and the

Make the an arke of pyne trees, Habitacios shalt thou make in the arke, and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch. Id. Genesis, c. 6.

Arke, a cofer or chest, as our shrines, saue it was flatte, Tindal. Workes, p. 11.

and the sample of ours was taken thereof.

The great Macedon, that out of Persie chased
Darius, of whose huge power all Asie rong,
In the riche arke Dan Homers rimes he placed,
Who feigned gestes of heathen princes song.

Surrey. On certain Psalmes translated.
When arked Noah, and seuen with him,
The empty'd world's remaine,
Had left the instrumentall meane,
Of landing them againe.

Warner. Albion's Engl. b. i. c. 1. From what hath been said it may appear, that the measure and capacity of the ark, which some atheistical irreligious men make use of, as an argument against the scripture, ought rather to be esteemed a most rational confirmation of the truth and divine authority of it.

ARM.
ARMS.
ARMA'DA.
A'RMAMENT.
A'RMATURE.
A'RMORER.

Wilkins. On Real Character, pt. ii. c. 5.

D. Ger. & Sw. Arm; Fr. Arme; It. Armare; Sp. Armar ; Goth. Arms; Sax. Earm, Eorm; Gr. Apuos; Lat. Armus, and Armoric, Armm, is the whole joint from the shoulder to the fist. The origin of all these words is either from Epew, necA'RMOURY. tere, to bind; or from Ger. A'RMY. Eren, (aupe,) capere, to take. From Arm, the Latins seem to have Arma. (Wachter.)

A'RMORY.

A/RMOUR.

To put on, furnish, or supply, that which may protect, strengthen, or defend; that which may offend, injure, or destroy: to provide with wea pons of offence or defence: generally, to protect, strengthen or defend; to provide, to furnish.

For Gode's loue, staleworthe men, armeth gou faste,
To sle these komlynges, and here casteles a doun caste.
R. Gloucester, p. 18.

Aruirag, oure kynge's brother, wende forth anon there,
And dude on the kynge's armes, hym self as yt were.
Id. p. 63.

And wel vayre compaynege al so there com
Vppe vayre wyte stedes, & in vayre armure also.

Id. p. 407.
He sauh Richard an ired, and his mykelle myght,
His folk armed & tired, & ay redy to fight.

R. Brunne, p. 151

Do come, he sayd, my minestrales
And gestours for to tellen tales
Anon in min arming.
Chaucer. The Rime of Sire Thopas, v. 13,776
Ther were also of Martes division,
Th' armerer, and the bowyer, and the smith,
That forgeth sharpe swerdes on his stith.

Id. The Knightes Tale, v. 2027
The fomy stedes on the golden bridel
Gnawing, and fast the armurers also
With file and hammer priking to and fro.-Id. Ib. v. 2509
At Leyes was he, and a Satalie,
Whan they were wonne; and in the grete see
At many a noble armee hadde he be.

Id. The Prologue, v. 55

But wel ye wote, the chamber is but lite
And few folke may lightly make it warme
Now loketh ye, for I wol haue no wite
To bring in prease, yt might don him harme
Or him diseasen, for my better arme
Yet were it bet she bidde till oft soonis
Now loke ye that knowen what to don is.-Id. Troil. b. ii
A man of armes maie him reste
Sometyme in hope for the beste,

If he maie fynde a werre nerre.-Gower. Con. A. b. iv.
Upsprang the crye of men, and trumpettes blast,
Then as distraught I did my armure on:
Ne could I tell yet whereto armes auailde.
But with our feres to throng out from the preasse
Toward the toure our hartes brent with desire;
Wrath prickt us fourth; and vnto vs it semed
A semely thing to dye armd in the feld.

Surrey. Virgile. Eneis, b. i
The shouts and trumpets swell the dire alarms;
And, though 'twas vain, I madly flew to arms :
Eager to raise a band of friends, and pour
In one firm body, to defend the tow'r;
Rage and revenge my kindling bosom fire,
Warm and in arms, to conquer or expire.-Pitt. Ib.

For they shal see the sonne of man, whome nowe th despise, humble and symple cummyngè an highe in t cloudes of the ayer with a great army of aungels, with wonderfull maiestie and glory.-Udal. Math. c. 25.

He [Philip] had provision of armour in his armoury arm thirty thousand men.-North. Plutarch, p. 208.

The king doth smile at, and is well prepar'd
To ship this dwarfish warre, this pigmy armes
From out the circle of his territories.

Shakespeare. King John, Act v. sc. 2.

That King Philip (of Macedon), should with a right puismnt armada (for that he was supposed able to set out 200 saile passe over into Italie, wast and spoile all the sea coasts, and to his power maintaine war by sea and land. Holland. Livy, p. 497.

And thus this great armada, which had been three complete years in rigging, and preparing with infinite expense, was within one month's space many times fought with, and at the last overthrown, with the slaughter of many men, not an hundred of the English being missing, or any ship last, save enely that small one.-Camden. Elizabeth, an. 1588. Amylius employed none save his Velites; of whom the king's hight armature had advantage at far distance, though the Romans were better appointed for the close.

Ralegh. History of the World, b. v. c. 6.

So a place was chosen near unto Pydna, that served well for the phalanx, and had likewise on the sides of it pieces of higher ground, fit for the archers and light armature.-Id. Ib.

In this war were brought unto Demetrius two notable armers, weighing fourty pounds a piece, and made by one Zous, an armorer, who, to shew the hardines and goodness of the temper, suffered them to be proved and shot at, at BI-score paces, with the engines of their battery; and albeit the armours were shot at and hit, yet were they never perced, and but onely a little race or scratch seen, as it were of a bodkin or penknife, and had no more hurt. North. Plutarch, p. 739.

- Now storming furie rose,

And clamour such as heard in heav'n till now
Was never, arms on armour clashing bray'd
Harrible discord, and the madding wheeles

Of brazen chariots rag'd-Milton. Paradise Lost, b. vi.

Cade calles your grace vsurper, openly,

And vowes to crowne himselfe in Westminster.
Hus army is a ragged multitude

Of hindes and pezants, rude and mercilesse.

Shakespeare. Henry VI. Act iv. sc. 4.

You our generall (the more is our greefe) deeme us your armar, to be heartless, handlesse, and armourlesse. Holland. Livy, p. 258.

It is remarkable that man, who is endowed with reason, is burn without armature, and is destitute of many powers, which irrational creatures have in a much higher degree than be. by reason he can make himself arms to defend han self, can contrive methods for his own guard and safety, can any ways annoy his enemy, and stave off the harms of noxious creatures.-Derham. Physico-Theology, b. iv. c.14.

No halls whose nostrils breath a living flame,
Have turn'd our turf, no teeth of serpents here
Were sown, an armed host, and iron crop to bear.
Dryden. Virgil, Georg. 2.

And he high the flaming sword appears;
Which fa descending, with a frightful sway,
Thro' shield and corslet fore'd th' impetuous way,
And bury'd deep in his fair bosom lay.
The purple streams thro' the thin armour strove,
And drenched th' imbroider'd coat his mother wove.
Id. Ib. Eneid, b. x.
From a regard of his [the maker of bows and arrows] own
interest, the making of bows and arrows grows to be his
chief business, and he becomes a sort of armourer.
Smith. Wealth of Nations, b. i. c. 2.

In such a palace poetry might place
The armory of winter; where his troops,
The gloomy clouds, find weapons arrowy fleet,
Skin-piercing volley, blossom bruising hail,

And snow that often blinds the trav'ler's course,
And wraps him in an unexpected tomb.-Cowp. Task, b. v.
They below

Le well equipp'd and shelter'd, nor remote
The whole united armament of Greece,
At Salamis.

Glover. Athenaid, b. v. p. 93. Sereble were the Romans of the imperfection of valour thout skill and practice, that, in their language, the name of an army was borrowed from the word which signified szertue-Gibbon. Roman Empire, c. 1.

ARM.
A'AMFULL.
A'UMLESS.
ARMLET.
ARMHOLE.
ARMPIT.

fete or defence

And on a wall this king his eyen cast,
And saw an hand armles, that wrote ful fast,
For fere of whiche he quoke, and siked sore.

Id. The Monkes Tale, v. 14,209.

A wreth of gold arm-gret, of huge weight,
Upon his hed sate ful of stones bright,
Of fine rubins and of diamants.

Id. The Knightes Tale, v. 2146. And Abedmelech ye Morain sayde vnto the prophet Jeremey; O, put these ragges ad cloutes vnder thyne arme holes, betwyxte them and the coardes: & Jeremy dyd so. Bible, 1539. Jeremy, c. 38.

Oh then, how quickly should this arme of mine,
Now prisoner to the palsie, chastise thee,
And minister correction to thy fault.

Shakespeare. Richard II. Act ii. sc. 3.

Together both with next to almighty arme,
Uplifted, imminent, one stroke they aim'd'
That might determin, and not need repeate,
As not of power at once.-Milton. Paradise Lost, b. vi.

"Tis not the wealth of Plutus, nor the gold
Lockt in the heart of earth, can buy away
This armful from me; this had been a ransom
To have redeem'd the great Augustus Cæsar,
Had he been taken.

Beaum. & Fletch. Philaster, Act iv. sc. 16.
So he nodded,
And soberly did mount an armegaunt steede,
Who neigh'd so hye, that what I wou'd haue spoke,
Was beastly dumbe by him.

Shakespeare. Ant. & Cleop. Acti. sc. 5.

Then [Demosthenes] prayed them to stay him by his armholes, for his feet began already to fail him; and thinking to go forward, as he passed by the Altar of Neptune, he fell down, and giving one gaspe gave up the gnost. North. Plutarch, p. 701. Ye Trojan nymphs! Xanthus' fair progeny ! Who on your father's sands oft laying by Your sacred armlets, and heads reedy tires, Ascend to dance on Ide in mixed choirs, Quit your rough flood.-Sherburn. Rape of Helen.

And at that instant reaching fourth his sword,
Close vnderneath his shield that scarce did showe,
Strooke him, as he his hand to strike vpreard,
In th' arm-pit ful that throgh both sides the wond appear'd.
Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. iv. c. 3.

T'other day he took Hellen in one hand, and Paris in t'other, and danc'd 'em at one another at arms-end, and 'twere two moppets.-Dryden. Troil. & Cress. Act ii. sc. 2.

A means, or instrument of of-
of strength.

Other be smot of the arm, or the hond, or the heued:
Sely that he smot mid the bodi bi leued.

R. Gloucester, p. 17. God of the peple of israel chees oure fadris and enhaunthe peple whanne thei weren comelyngis in the lond of 7pt, and in an high arm he ledde hem out of it. Wiclif. Dedis, c. 13.

Able, strong, powerful in arms; warlike.

And dounward from an hill under a bent,
Ther stood the temple of Mars armipotent,
Wrought all of burned stele, of which th' entree
Was longe and streite, and gastly for to see.
Chaucer. The Knightes Tales, v. 1984.

Beneath the low'ring brow, and on a bent, The temple stood of Mars armipotent; The frame of burnish'd steel, that cast a glare From far, and seem'd to thaw the freezing air. A streight, long entry, to the temple led, Blind with high walls, and horrour over head. Dryden. Palamon & Arcite. A'RMISTICE. It. Armistizio; Sp. Armisticio, from Lat. Arma, arms, and sistere, to stay,

to cease.

A cessation from arms, from war; a suspension of arms.

With our old writers the common expression is an "abstinence of war."

These intended operations were prevented by an armistice, which took place as soon as the belligerent powers ha! acceded to the preliminaries. Smollet. Hist. of England, an. 1748, This made an armistice (that is speaking with regard to my uncle Toby, but, with respect to Mrs. Wadman, a vacancy) of almost eleven years.

Sterne. Tristram Shandy, vol. viii. c. 10.

Cloris. O that these dews rose-water were for thee, These mists perfumes that hang upon these thicks; And that the winds were all aromatics, Which if my wish could make them they should be. Drayton. Nymphal, iv.

Whan this Charles was dede, his fredys entedynge to haue caryed ye corps into Fraunse, causyd it be seryd and enoynted with ryche and precyous bawmys, and other oyntmentis and aromatykes.-Fabyan, c. 166.

Ver hath made the plesant field
Many several odours yecld,

Odours aromatical.-W. Browne. Praise to his Mistress.

Drink the first cup at supper hot, and half an hour before supper something hot and aromatis'd.

Bacon. Medical Remains.

Unto converted Jews who are of the same seed, no man imputeth this unsavoury odor; as though aromatized by their conversion, they lost their scent with their religion, and smelt no longer then they savoured of the Jew. Brown. Vulgar Errours, b. iv. c. 10. They colour their wine with the sweet wood of aloe or cinamon, and otherwise give it a tincture and aromatization, with saffron.-Holland. Plutarch. p. 604.

Of other strewings, and aromatizers, which may be admitted to enrich our sallets, we have already spoken. Evelyn. Acetaria.

All who bear the name
Of Cappadocians, swell the Syrian host;
With those who gather from the fragrant shrub
The aromatic balsam, and extract
Its milky juice along the lovely side
Of Jordan.

Glover. Leonidas, b. iv.

Now ev'ning mildly still-and softer suns
(While every breeze is flowing balm) invite
To taste the fragrant spirit of the spring
Salubrious; from mead or hawthorn hedge
Aromatis'd, and pregnant with delight
No less than health.-Thompson. Sickness, b. v.
On round. See ROUND.

AROUND, prep. Fr. Ronde; It. Ronda, from

AROUND, ad. the Lat. Rotundus, from rota, a wheel. In A. S. (says Tooke) the place of this preposition is supplied by Hweil, and Onhweil.

Encircling; in a circle; circumscribing on every
point of the circumference; on every side.
Or like that sacred hill, whose head full hie,
Adorn'd with fruitful olives all around,
Is, as it were for endlesse memory

Of that deare Lord who oft thereon was found,
For ever with a flow'ring girlond crown'd.

Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. i. c. 10.
They around the flag
Of each his faction, in their several clanns,
Light arm'd or heavy, sharp, smooth, swift or slow,
Swarm populous, unnumber'd as the sands.

Milton. Puradise Lost, b. ii.

No war, or battel's sound

Was heard the world around;

The idle spear and shield were high up hung.

Milton. On the Nativity.

Around him all the planets, with this our earth, single, or with attendants, continually move; seeking to receive the blessing of his light, and lively warmth.

Shaftsbury. Characteristicks. The Moralists, pt. iii.

The goddess heard, and bade the muses raise
The golden trumpet of eternal praise;
From pole to pole the winds diffuse the sound,
That fills the circuit of the world around.

Pope. The Temple of Fame. The whole atmosphere glowed, and every thing around was in a state of perfect stagnation, not a leaf was in motion. Gilpin. Tour to the Lakes.

He who could have summoned twelve legions of angels to form a flaming guard around his person, or have called down fire from heaven on the guilty city of Jerusalem, on his false accusers, his unrighteous judge, the executioners, and the insulting rabble, made no resistance when his body was fastened to the cross by the Roman soldiers. Horsley, vol. i. Ser. 12. ARO USE. Formed upon the past participle Arose, of the verb Arise. See ROUSE.

To raise, or cause to rise; to excite; and in Beaum. and Fletch. to re-animate, to revive.

The. His part is play'd; and, though it were too short, He [Arcite] did it well: your day is lengthen'd; and The blissfull dew of heaven do's arowze you.

Beaum. & Fletch. Two Noble Kinsmen, Act iii. sc. 4. This is the wine

With a pard's spotted hide his shoulders broad
He mantled over; to his head upheav'd
His brazen helmet, and with vig'rous hand
Grasping his spear, forth issu'd to arouse
His brother, mighty sov'reign of the host.

Cowper. Homer. Iliad, b. x.
A. S. Hrawa;
Battle row, battle

ARO/W. Arewe. On row.
Angl. Rew, Row, and Aray.
aray, (Junius.) See ARRAY.
In an orderly line; in regular succession.

Tho hu come to Guldeforde, thys erle Godwyne the ssrewe
Lete thys gultelese men sette al arewe,

An telle out euere the tethe man, & the nyne thoru out he nome

And let smyte of her heuedys.-R. Gloucester, p. 327.

Alle thei fled on rowe, in lynen white as milke,
For non suld tham knowe, ther armes whilk were whilk.
R. Brunne, p. 334.

For joye he hent hire in his armes two;
His herte bathed in a bath of blisse,

A thousand time a-row he gan hire kisse.
Chaucer. The Wif of Bathes Tale, v. 6836.

Tho praith the kinge, thou praith the quene,
Forth with the lordes all arewe,
That he somme myrthe wolde shewe.

But plainly for to make it knowe Howe that the signes sit a rowe, Eche after other by degree,

In substance and in propertee.

Gower. Con. A. b. viii.

Id. Ib. b. vii.

My master and his man are both broke loose,
Beaten the maids, a-row, and bound the doctor.

Shakespeare. Comedy of Errors, Act v. sc. 1.

The borders of their peticoats below,
Were guarded thick with rubies on a row.

Dryden. The Flower and the Leaf. ARO/YNT. Fr. Ronger; Lat. Rodere, Rodicare, Rocare, Roncare, Ronger, (Menage.) To gnaw, knap, or nibble off; to fret, eat, or wear away, (Cotgrave.)

Aroynt thee-begnawed thee; be thou gnawed, eaten, consumed; similar to the common malediction-a plague take thee; a pock light upon thee. See RONYON, ROYNISH, and ROYNE.

A saylor's wife had chesnuts in her lappe,
And mouncht, and mouncht, and mouncht:
Giue me, quoth I.

Aroynt thee, Witch, the rumpe-fed Ronyon cryes.

Shakespeare. Macbeth.

A'RQUEBUSE. ARQUEBUSA'de. A'RQUEBUSIER.

Fr. Arquebuse; It. Archibuso; Sp. Arcabuz; composed of Arco, an arc

or bow; and Busio, which signifies Hole, in Italian. (Menage). But the etymology of Busio is unsettled. See, however, the quotation from Lodge.

And now farewell both spear and shield,
Caliver, pistol, arquebus,

See, see, what sighs my heart doth yield
To think that I must leave you thus.

Nicholas Breton. A Farewel to Town.

Then pushed souldiers with their pikes,
And halberdes with handy strokes;
The argabushe in fleshe it lightes,
And duns the ayre with misty smokes.

Lord Vaux. Cupid's Assault.

There was a water-man at the Tower staires, desired the sayd Lieutenants manne to take him, who did so, which being espyed of Wyats men, seuen of them with har quebussas, called them to land againe; but they would not, whereupon each man discharged their piece and killed the sayde

waterman.-Stowe. Chronicle, an. 1554.

Soldiers armed with guns, of whatsoever sort or denomination the latter, appear to have been called arquebusiers, though the weapon termed an arquebuse (originally a haque or haquebut), is distinguished by a particular description in dictionaries and glossaries. It is probable, however, that haques or harquebuses, antiently signified guns in general; in proof of which a gunsmith is still called in French an arquebusier. The strange alteration from harquebut to harquebuse may be gradually traced in these papers; where the bearers of the weapons in question are variously stiled, "hackbutters, or haghutters, or harquebuttiers," &c.; from haque, a term of unknown derivation, and buter, Fr. to aim at.-Lodge. Illustrations, vol. i. p. 238.

ARRAIGN, } Fr. Araisonner; and, by ARRA IGNMENT. contraction, Arainier (Araisner and Arraisner). Ad-rationem ponere, to put to account, or to give a reason or account.

To call upon (any one), to give a reason or cause; to call for a defence or justification; to put upon defence; to accuse or find fault with.

To arraign, is nothing else but to call the prisoner to the bar of the court, to answer the matter charged upon him in the indictment. "This word, in Latin," Lord Hale says, "is no other than ad rationem ponere; and in French, ad reson, or abbreviated a resn."-Vide Blackstone's Commentaries, vol. iv. p. 322, and Note.

Sir Richard Scrop than tresourer of England, & sir Thomas Gray knyght, were there arrestyd for treason, & aregnyd, or so examyned vpon ye same, that the xxix day of July folowyng they were there all thre behedyd.-Fabyan, an. 1415.

And although the Erle of Arundell vpon his arreignment pleaded his charter of pardon, he could not be heard, but was in most vile and shamefull maner sodeinly put to death. Grafton. Rich. II. an. 23.

Then all thy saints assembl'd, thou shalt judge
Bad men and angels, they arraigned shall sink
Beneath thy sentence; hell, her numbers full,
Thenceforth shall be for ever shut.

Milton. Paradise Lost, b. iii. When the day was come of his [Manlius] arraignement, I can find in no author, what was objected against the prisoner by his accusers, directly tending to prove the crime of aspiring to a kingdome.-Holland. Livy, p. 230.

None durst arraign the righteous doom she bore, Ev'n they who pity'd most, yet òlam'd her more: The parallel they needed not to name, But in the dead, they damn'd the living dame. Dryden. Theodore & Honoria. Censure, which arraigns the public actions and the private motives of princes, has ascribed to envy, a conduct, which might be attributed to the prudence and moderation of Hadrian.-Gibbon. Roman Empire, c. 1.

A'RRAND.
A'RRANT.

A'RRANDLESS.

A. S. Erendian, to bear or carry tidings, to deliver a message, to declare or bring news. Erend, tidings, news, a message, an embassy, (Somner.)

Commonly written Errand (qv.) That with the noise of her he gan awake And to cal, and dresse him vp to rise Remembring him, his arrand was to done From Troilus, and eke his great emprise.

Chaucer. Troilus, b. ii. He thus began to chafe, and toward them full lowd he cried What euer thou art, that armed thus vnto our flouds dost

trace,

Tell what thine arrand is, and stay thy selfe, and stop thy pace. Phaer. Eneidos, b. vi.

But if I had had on my shooes, they had beene like to haue gone away arrandlesse.-Fox. Mart. Q. Marie, an. 1557.

Goe, soule, the bodies guest,

Upon a thankelesse arrant; Feare not to touche the best,

The truth shall be thy warrant.-Sir W. Raleigh. The Lye. There came also other solemne Embassadors out of Normandy of the like arrand, that was to solicete the K. [Hen. III.] on the behalfe of the noblemen to those parts, that hee would vouchsafe to come thither in proper person.

ARRANGE. ARRANGEMENT. ARRANGER.

Stowe. Chronicle. an. 1229.

Fr. Ranger, Arranger, (from the Ger. Ring; A. S. Wring, a ring or circle,) to order and dispose persons and things, as is usually done at public assemblies, where those who meet generally form themselves into a ring or circle. Hence also rang or rank, the right of precedency in public assemblies, (Wachter.)

orderly manner; to methodize. To put in order; to dispose or place in an

It was a fayre sight to se them entre in good ordre, and so came to the market place, and there he araynged his men in the stretes.-Berners. Froissart, c. 325.

The countrey serued wonderful wel for the arrangynge of
hys battailes in the large playnes.
Brende. Quintus Curtius, fol. 76.
I chaunc't this day

This fatall day, that I shall euer rew,
To see two knights in trauele on my way
(A sorry sight) arrang'd in battell new,
Both breathing vengeance.-Spenser. F. Queene, b. i. c. 7.
He whose potent word,

Arm'd them with fierce flames,
Arrang'd and disciplin'd, and cloth'd in gold,
And call'd them out of chaos to the field.

Young. The Complaint, Night 9. Cadmean Thebes, whose citadell was rais'd, By stones descending from Citharon's hill Spontaneous, feign'd in fables to assume, A due arrangement in their mural bed

At sweet Amphion's lute.-Glover. Athenaid, b. iv. The chief delinquents have hitherto escaped: none of the list-makers, the assemblers of the mob, the directors and

arrangers have been convicted.

Burke. Reflections on the Executions in 1780. A'RRANT. I Perhaps from Errans, from A'RRANTLY. Errare, to wander; a vagrant, a vagabond.

Shameless, profligate, wicked, as vagabonds; without blushing or flinching; in right earnest.

I assure you, there is not so ranke a traytor, nor so arrant a thefe, nor yet so cruel a murderer, apprehended or deteyned in prison for his offence, but he shall be brought before the justice to heere his iudgement: and yet ye will proceede to the judgement of an annoynted king, and here neyther bys auns were nor excuse.-Grafton. Hen. IV. an. 1.

King Arthur, whom we call one of the nine worthies, for all his valour was unworthily served by Morded, one of his round-table Knights: and Guithera, or Helena Alba his faire wife, as Leland interprets it, was an arrant honest woman.-Burton. Anat. of Melancholy, p. 617.

The first [he who makes money his god] is the arrand'st beggar and slave that is; nay, he is worse than the Arcadian ass, who, while he carryeth gold on his back, eats thistles.

Howell, b. iv. Let. 9.

Know, there are rhymes, which, fresh and fresh apply'd,
Will cure the arrant'st puppy of his pride.
Pope. Horace, b. i. Ep. 1.
Funeral tears are as arrantly hired out as mourning clokes.
L'Estrange.
A'RRAS. Fr. Arras; It. Arazzo, a kind of
tapestry manufactured at Arras.

Farewell my fellow courtiers all, with whom
I have of yore made many a scrambling meal
In corners, behind arrasses, on stairs.

Beaum. & Fletch. The Woman Hater, Act iii. sc. 4. ARRAUGHT. Raught or reached.

Then his [Gordobuc] ambitious sonnes unto them twayne Arraught the rule, and from their father drew.

ARRAY, v. ARRA'Y, n. ARRA'YMENT.

Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. ii. c. 10. From the A. S. Wrigan, to -wrine, to wrie, to cover, to cloak; ray or array is applied both to the dressing of the body of an individual, and to the dressing of a body of armed men. (Tooke, vol. ii. 225.) See RAY.

To cover, to cloak, to clothe, to dress; to put, to set in order, to deck.