Part 591

<blockquote>Very little water or <b>aquosity</b> is found in their belly. <i>Holland.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Ar</h1> <Xpage=76>

<hw>Ar</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>conj.</tt> <def>Ere; before.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Chaucer.</i>

<h1>Ara</h1> <Xpage=76>

<hw>A"ra</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[L.]</ety> <fld>(Astron.)</fld> <def>The Altar; a southern constellation, south of the tail of the Scorpion.</def>

<h1>Ara</h1> <Xpage=76>

<hw>A"ra</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Native Indian name.]</ety> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld> <def>A name of the great blue and yellow macaw (<spn>Ara ararauna</spn>), native of South America.</def>

<h1>Arab</h1> <Xpage=76>

<hw>Ar"ab</hw> <tt>(?; 277)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Prob. ultimately fr. Heb. <ets>arabah</ets> a desert, the name employed, in the Old Testament, to denote the valley of the Jordan and Dead Sea. Ar. <ets>Arab</ets>, Heb. <ets>arabi</ets>, <ets>arbi</ets>, <ets>arbim</ets>: cf. F. <ets>Arabe</ets>, L. <ets>Arabs</ets>, Gr. <?/.]</ety> <def>One of a swarthy race occupying Arabia, and numerous in Syria, Northern Africa, etc.</def>

<cs><col>Street Arab</col>, <cd>a homeless vagabond in the streets of a city, particularly and outcast boy or girl.</cd> <i>Tylor.</i>

<blockquote>The ragged outcasts and <b>street Arabs</b> who are shivering in damp doorways. <i>Lond. Sat. Rev.</i></blockquote> </cs>

<h1>Arabesque</h1> <Xpage=76>

<hw>Ar`a*besque"</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[F. <ets>arabesque</ets>, fr. It. <ets>arabesco</ets>, fr. <ets>Arabo</ets> Arab.]</ety> <def>A style of ornamentation either painted, inlaid, or carved in low relief. It consists of a pattern in which plants, fruits, foliage, etc., as well as figures of men and animals, real or imaginary, are fantastically interlaced or put together.</def>

<note>&hand; It was employed in Roman imperial ornamentation, and appeared, without the animal figures, in Moorish and Arabic decorative art. (See <er>Moresque</er>.) The arabesques of the Renaissance were founded on Greco-Roman work.</note>

<h1>Arabesque</h1> <Xpage=76>

<hw>Ar`a*besque"</hw>, <tt>a.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>Arabian.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Relating to, or exhibiting, the style of ornament called <i>arabesque</i>; <as>as, <ex>arabesque</ex> frescoes</as>.</def>

<h1>Arabesqued</h1> <Xpage=76>

<hw>Ar`a*besqued"</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Ornamented in the style of arabesques.</def>

<h1>Arabian</h1> <Xpage=76>

<hw>A*ra"bi*an</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Of or pertaining to Arabia or its inhabitants.</def>

<cs><col>Arabian bird</col>, <cd>the phenix.</cd></cs>

<i>Shak.</i>

<h1>Arabian</h1> <Xpage=76>

<hw>A*ra"bi*an</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>A native of Arabia; an Arab.</def>

<h1>Arabic</h1> <Xpage=76>

<hw>Ar"a*bic</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>Arabicus</ets>, fr. <ets>Arabia</ets>.]</ety> <def>Of or pertaining to Arabia or the Arabians.</def>