Ay, I know you have arsenic,
Vitriol, sal-tartar, arguile, alkali.

Ben Jonson's Alchemist, i, 1. ARGAL. (1) "Hard lees sticking to the sides of wine vessels, and otherwise called tartar." Kersey. See Argoil.

(2) Used by Shakespeare as a vulgar corruption of ergo. ARGEMONE, S. (Lat.) The wild tansy.

ARGENT, S. (A.-N.) Silver. ARGENTIL, S. (A.-N.) The herb percepiere, according to Gerard. ARGENTINA, 8. (Lat.) The wild

Quarrelsome.

An

ARGISOME, adj. Northampt. ARGOILE, 8. (Fr. argille?) article used in alchemical operations, the exact character of which seems to be doubtful. It has been taken as signifying potter's earth; but it seems to be more properly the impure salt deposited from wine; which, when purified, is called bitartrate of potash, or cream of tartar. ARGOLETS, 8. pl. (Fr.) Light ARGOLETIERS, } .be

ARGOLOGY, 8. (Gr. ȧpyoλoyía.) Idle speaking.

ARGOS, 8. (Fr.) The small false toes at the back of the foot, applied to animals.

ARGOSIE, 8. (supposed to be derived from the name of the ship Argo.) A large ship, either for merchandise or war.

Who sits him like a full-sail'd argosie
Danc'd with a lofty billow.

Chapm. Byron's Consp.
That golden traffic love,

Is scantier far than gold; one mine of that
More worth than twenty argosies
Of the world's richest treasure.

Rowley's New Wonder, Anc. Dr., v, 236.
My instance is a mighty argosie,
That in it bears, besides th' artillery
Of fourscore pieces of a mighty bore,
A thousand soldiers.

Drayton, Noah's Flood, iv, p. 1539. ARGUE, v. (Fr. arguer, to reprove.) To find fault with.

The false Matabrune began to caste au eye on her, and repreved her of the faute that her selfe had made, arguing her without a cause, and saide, O unhappi and miserable woman. Helyas, p. 28. ARGUFY, v. To argue. Var. dial. ARGIFY, The country people in the Midland Counties often say "what argifies?" in the sense of, "what signifies it? ARGUMENT, (1) v. (Fr.) To argue. (2) s. Conversation,

(3) A given arch, whereby another is determined proportional to the first.

As ben his centris, and his argumentis, And his proporcionels convenientis. Chaucer, Cant. T., 11589. ARGY, S. An argument; an assertion. Shorpsh. Also, a person who is not only contentious, but pertinacious in managing an argument.

ARICHES, S. pl. The ends of joists. Howell.

ARIDE. See Arride. ARIEREBAN, 8. (A.-N.) A general summons from the king to all his vassals to appear in arms. Skinner.

ARIETATE, v. (Lat.) To butt like a

ram.

ARIETATION, S. Butting.

ARIETE, S. Aries, one of the signs in the zodiac.

ARIGHT. Apparently the pret. of areche, and used in the sense of reached, effected, did, or performed.

ARIPE, 8. A kind of bird.

He chasid aripes, briddes of Archadie. MS. Digby, 230. ARISINGE, 8. (A.-S.) Resurrection. Ich y-leve ine the Holy Gost, holy cherche generalliche, mennesse of halzen, lesnesse of zennes, of vlesse arizinge, and lyf evrelestinde.

MS. Arundel 57, f. 94. ARIST, 3d pers. s. of the pres. and pret. of arise.

Foules in wode hem make blithe,
In everich lond arist song.

Arthour and Merlin, p. 274.
She wolde walke upon a daye,
And that was er the sonne aryst.

Gower's Conf. Am., ed. 1532, f. 70. ARISTE, S. (4.-S.) An arising.

Ant stepe adun ant spruptest helle; arise, ant thin ariste cuddest thine i-corene, ant stihe abuven the sterren. MS. Reg., 17 A xxvii, f. 67. His up ariste do me stepen upward in heie and holi theawes.

MS. Cott., Nero, A xiv. ARISTIPPUS, s. A sort of wine.

O for a bowl of fat canary,
Rich Aristippus, sparkling sherry!
Some nectar else from Juno's dairy;
O these draughts would make us merry!
Middleton's Works, ii, 422.

And privilie toke arivage
Into the countrie of Carthage.

Chaucer, House of Fame, 1. 223. ARIVAILE, S. (A.-N.) Arrival. ARK, S. (1) (A.S.) A chest. In the northern counties, the large chests in farm-houses used for keeping meat or flour are still so called.

Soth was, that he wolden him bynde,
And trusse al that he mithen fynde
Of hise, in arke, or in kiste,
That he mouth in seckes thriste.

Havelok, 1. 2018.
Quen this corn to the kniht was sald,
He did it in an arc to hald,
And opened this are the thrid day,
And fand tharin selcouthe to saye.
MS. Coll. Med. Edinb

(2) Clouds running into two
points, thus (); more usually
termed Noah's ark.

(3) s. An arch. ARLES, S. Money paid to bind a bargain; earnest-money. To arle a bargain, to close it. See Airles. ARLICHE, adv. Early. ARLING, S. A bird which appears early in the spring.

An arling, a byrde that appeareth not in winter, a clotbyrde, a smatch, cæruleo. Baret's Alvearie, 1580. ARLOUP, S. The orlop, or middle deck of a ship.

ARLY, adv. (A.-S.) Early. East.

And noght over arly to mete at gang,
Ne for to sit tharat over lang.

MS. Cott., Galba, E, ix, f. 65.

ARM, 8. (1) Harm.

So falle on the, sire emperour,
Swich arm, and schame, and desonour.
Sevyn Sages, 852.

(2) v. To lard (in cookery). In
Warner's Antiq. Culin., p. 26,
we have a receipt in which it is
directed that "cranes and herons

shal be armed with lardes of swyne."

(3) v. To take up in the arms. ARM, adj. (A.-S.) Wretched. In writings of an early date. ARMAN, S. (Fr. armand.) A preparation given to horses to create an appetite. Dict. Rust. ARMED, adj. Having arms.

As a heated lion, so he looks; His hair hangs long behind him, black and shining

Like ravens' wings; his shoulders broad and strong;

Arm'd long and round; and on his thigh a sword

Hung by a curious baldrick.

B. and Fl., Two Nob. Kinsm. ARMENTAL, adj. (Lat.) RelatARMENTINE, ing to a herd of cattle.

ARMENTOSE, adj. (Lat.) ing in cattle.

ARMESIN-TAFFETA, S.

taffata. Howell.

Abound

A sort of

"Armet, a

heed pese of harnesse." Palsgrave, f. 18.

ARM-GAUNT, adj. Lean; thin. As thin as an arm.

So he nodded,

And soberly did mount an arm-gaunt steed, Who neigh'd so high that what I would have spoke

Was beastly dumb'd by him.
Shakesp., Ant. and Cl., i, 5.
ARM-GRET, adj. As thick as a man's

arm.

A wrethe of gold arm-gret, and huge of wight,

Upon his heed set ful of stones bright. Chaucer, Cant. T., 2147. ARMIN, S. A beggar; formed from the Dutch arm, poor, to suit an assumed Dutch character.

O hear, God!-so young an armin! M. Flow. Armin, sweet heart, I know not what you mean

By that, but I am almost a beggar.
London Prod., Supp. Sh., ii, 519.
ARMYN, 8. Ermine.
ARMILLE, 8. (Lat. armilla.) A
bracelet; also, a necklace.

After they had dronke he gave her two
rynges to hange on her eeres weyenge

ij. sycles, and as many armylles weyenge
x. sycles.
Golden Legend, f. 10.

The king thus gird with his swerd, and
standing, shall take armyll of the Car-
dinall, saying thise words, accipe armil-
lam, and it is to wete that armyll is
made in maner of a stole wovyn with
gold and set with stones, to be putt by
the Cardinall aboute the kinges necke.
Rutland Papers, p. 18.

ARMING, S. (1) A coat of arms. (2) A net hung about a ship's hull in battle, to protect the men from an enemy. ARMING-GIRDLE, 8. A kind of

sword girdle. Florio, in v. Sellóne, mentions an arming-saddle. ARMING-POINTS, s. Short ends of

strong twine, with points like laces, fixed under the armpits and bendings of the arms and knees, to fasten the gussets of mail which protected those parts of the body. ARMING-SWORD, 8. A two-handed sword.

And weening to have play'd a young man's part,

Girts to his arming-sword with trembling hand. Peele's Farewell, 1589.

ARMIPOTENT, adj. (Lat.) Mighty in arms.

ARMITE, S. (4.-N.) (1) A sort of helmet.

On the iiij. corners of the waggon were iiij. hed peces called armites, every pece beyng of a sundery device.

(2) A hermit.

Hall, Henry VIII, f. 70.

ARMWRYS, S. Armour.

Behold the armwrys which made myn herte quake!

Lydgate's Minor Poems, p. 260. ARM-WRIST, s. The wrist. Cornw. ARN, ARNE, pres. t. pl. of be. Are.

Offtsithes it is seene that dyvers ther arne, the which forseene not the causis precedent and subsequent.

Hearne's Fragment, p. 298.
In Brytayn this layes arne y-wrytt,
Furst y-founde and forthe y-gete.
Sir Orpheo, 13.
ARNE, v. (1) To earn. Shropsh.
(2) v. (4.-S.) To run; to flow.

Eldol, erl of Gloucester, also in hys side
Arnde, and kepite her and ther, and slow

a-boute wyde. Rob. Glouc., p. 140.

Now rist grete tabour betṛng,
Blaweyng of pypes, and ek trumpyng,
Stedes lepyng, and ek arnyng.

Kyng Alisaunder, 2165.

(2) s. (A.-S.) An eagle. (3) For e'er a one. West. ARNALDIE, 8. (Medieval Lat. arnaldia.) A kind of disease, mentioned in the early chronicles. ARNARY-CHEESE, S. Ordinary cheese made of skimmed milk. Dorset.

ARND,

8. (A.-S.) An errand;

ARNEDE, a message. ARNDERN, S. The evening. See Aandorn.

When the sad arndern shutting in the light. Drayton's Owl, ed. 1748, p. 410. Broken with

ARNEIED, part. p.
running?

The hors was nought i-paied wel,
He arnede away with the king,
Thourgh felde and wode withouten
lesing,

And in a mure don him cast,
Almest he hadde deied in hast.
Ac er hii wonne the stede
Ropes in the contré thai leide,
Ac never sithe, withoute fable,
Ne com the stede out of the stable,
So sore he was arneied that tide,
Siththe dorste no man on him ride.
Bevis of Hamtoun, p. 79.

ARNEMENT, 8. (A.-N.) Ink.
ARNEMORWE, adv. Early morning.
See Armorwe.
ARNESTE, 8.

Prompt. Parv.

Earnest money.

ARNEYS, S. Harness; armour. ARNS. The form of arles, or earnest

money, prevalent in Lancashire. ARNT. (1) A contraction of have not; am not. Var. dial. (2) s. An errand. Lanc. ARNUT, S. The earth-nut, or pignut. North.

AROINT, interj. A word of expulsion, or avoiding. It occurs in Shakespeare, and has been the subject of much discussion. AROMATE,

AROMAZ,

AROME,

s. (Lat. aroma.) A spice.

AROUTE. (1) To go; to move about.

In all that lond no Christin durst arout. Urry's Chaucer, p. 53. (2) An assembly. Gower. AKOVE, (1) adv. Rambling about; on the rove. Craven. (3) pret. of arive. Arrived.

In Thamis arove, wher he had ful sharpe shores. Hardyng's Chron., f. 36.

AROW, adv. In a row, suc-
AROWE, Cessively. See Arew.

This day and yesterday I told arowe,
That six and thirty they had y-slowe.
Richard Caur de L., 1. 1787.

My master and his man are both broke
loose,
Beaten the maids arow, and bound the
doctor. Shakesp. Com. of E., v, 1.

Thabot present him a schip
Ther that mani stode arouwe.
Legend of Pope Greg., p. 31.
AROWZE, v. (Fr. arroser.) To be-
dew; to water anything.

The blissful dew of heaven does arowze you. Beaum. and Fl., Two Nob. Kinsm., v, 4. ARPENT, 8. (Fr.) An acre. "Halfe

an arpent, that is, nine hundreth foote of ground." Hollyband's Dictionarie, 1593.

ARRACIES, 8. (4.-N.) A term applied to the smaller animals of the chase, which were skinned, similarly to the process now used for hares and rabbits, in opposition to flayed. ARRAGE, (1) s. (A.-N. arage.) Vassal service in ploughing the lord's land.

(2) v. (A.-N. arrager.) To go about furiously. ARRAHIND, adv. Around. Staff. ARRAIGN, v. To arrange. Webster. ARRALS, S. Pimples; pocks. Cumb. ARRAND, 8. An errand.

ARRANT,

ARRANT, (1) part. a. (A.-N.) Errant; wandering.

(2) adj. Notorious; as an arrant rogue.

ARRAS, S. A kind of powder, sup

posed to be made of the root of the orris. It is mentioned as a material used in brewing, and also as a powder for sprinkling the hair.