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3. Any seizure by power, physical or moral.

The sad stories of fire from heaven, the burning of his sheep, etc., . . . were sad arrests to his troubled spirit. Jer. Taylor.

4. (Far.) A scurfiness of the back part of the hind leg of a horse; -- also named rat-tails. White.

Arrest of judgment (Law), the staying or stopping of a judgment, after verdict, for legal cause. The motion for this purpose is called a motion in arrest of judgment.

Ar`res*ta"tion (&?;), n. [F. arrestation, LL. arrestatio.] Arrest. [R.]

The arrestation of the English resident in France was decreed by the National Convention. H. M. Williams.

Ar`res*tee" (&?;), n. [See Arrest, v.] (Scots Law) The person in whose hands is the property attached by arrestment.

Ar*rest"er (&?;), n. 1. One who arrests.

2. (Scots Law) The person at whose suit an arrestment is made. [Also written arrestor.]

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Ar*rest"ing (r*rst"ng), a. Striking; attracting attention; impressive.

This most solemn and arresting occurrence. J. H. Newman.

Ar*rest"ive (-v), a. Tending to arrest. McCosh.

Ar*rest"ment, n. [OF. arrestement.] 1. (Scots Law) The arrest of a person, or the seizure of his effects; esp., a process by which money or movables in the possession of a third party are attached.

2. A stoppage or check. Darwin.

||Ar*rêt (&?;), n. [F. See Arrest, n.] (F. Law) (a) A judgment, decision, or decree of a court or high tribunal; also, a decree of a sovereign. (b) An arrest; a legal seizure.

Ar*ret" (&?;), v. t. Same as Aret. [Obs.] Spenser.

Ar`rha*phos"tic (&?;), a. [Gr. &?;; 'a priv. + &?; to sew together.] Seamless. [R.]

{ Ar*rhi"zal (&?;), Ar*rhi"zous (&?;), } a. [Gr. &?; not rooted; 'a priv. + &?; a root.] (Bot.) Destitute of a true root, as a parasitical plant.

{ Ar*rhyth"mic (&?;), Ar*rhyth"mous (&?;), } a. [Gr. &?;; 'a priv. + &?; rhythm.] (Med.) Being without rhythm or regularity, as the pulse.

Ar"rhyt*my (&?;), n. [Gr. &?;; 'a priv. + &?; rhythm.] Want of rhythm. [R.]

Ar*ride" (&?;), v. t. [L. arridere; ad + ridere to laugh.] To please; to gratify. [Archaic] B. Jonson.

Above all thy rarities, old Oxenford, what do most arride and solace me are thy repositories of moldering learning. Lamb.

Ar*riere" (&?;), n. [F. arrière. See Arrear.] "That which is behind"; the rear; -- chiefly used as an adjective in the sense of behind, rear, subordinate.

Arriere fee, Arriere fief, a fee or fief dependent on a superior fee, or a fee held of a feudatory. -- Arriere vassal, the vassal of a vassal.

Ar*riere"-ban` (&?;), n. [F., fr. OE. arban, heriban, fr. OHG. hariban, heriban, G. heerbann, the calling together of an army; OHG. heri an army + ban a public call or order. The French have misunderstood their old word, and have changed it into arrière-ban, though arrière has no connection with its proper meaning. See Ban, Abandon.] A proclamation, as of the French kings, calling not only their immediate feudatories, but the vassals of these feudatories, to take the field for war; also, the body of vassals called or liable to be called to arms, as in ancient France.

Ar"ris (&?;), n. [OF. areste, F. arête, fr. L. arista the top or beard of an ear of grain, the bone of a fish.] (Arch.) The sharp edge or salient angle formed by two surfaces meeting each other, whether plane or curved; - - applied particularly to the edges in moldings, and to the raised edges which separate the flutings in a Doric column. P. Cyc.

Arris fillet, a triangular piece of wood used to raise the slates of a roof against a chimney or wall, to throw off the rain. Gwilt. -- Arris gutter, a gutter of a V form fixed to the eaves of a building. Gwilt.