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<h1>Array</h1> <Xpage=83>

<hw>Ar*ray"</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[OE. <ets>arai</ets>, <ets>arrai</ets>, OF. <ets>arrai</ets>, <ets>arrei</ets>, <ets>arroi</ets>, order, arrangement, dress, F. <ets>arroi</ets>; <ets>a</ets> (L. <ets>ad</ets>) + OF. <ets>rai</ets>, <ets>rei</ets>, <ets>roi</ets>, order, arrangement, fr. G. or Scand.; cf. Goth. <ets>raidjan</ets>, <ets>garaidjan</ets>, to arrange, MHG. <ets>gereiten</ets>, Icel. <ets>rei\'ebi</ets> rigging, harness; akin to E. <ets>ready</ets>. Cf. <er>Ready</er>, <er>Greith</er>, <er>Curry</er>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>Order; a regular and imposing arrangement; disposition in regular lines; hence, order of battle; <as>as, drawn up in battle <ex>array</ex></as>.</def>

<blockquote>Wedged together in the closest <b>array</b>. <i>Gibbon.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>The whole body of persons thus placed in order; an orderly collection; hence, a body of soldiers.</def>

<blockquote>A gallant <b>array</b> of nobles and cavaliers. <i>Prescott.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>An imposing series of things.</def>

<blockquote>Their long <b>array</b> of sapphire and of gold. <i>Byron.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>Dress; garments disposed in order upon the person; rich or beautiful apparel.</def>

<i>Dryden.</i>

<p><b>5.</b> <fld>(Law)</fld> <sd>(a)</sd> <def>A ranking or setting forth in order, by the proper officer, of a jury as impaneled in a cause.</def> <sd>(b)</sd> <def>The panel itself.</def> <sd>(c)</sd> <def>The whole body of jurors summoned to attend the court.</def>

<cs><col>To challenge the array</col> <fld>(Law)</fld>, <cd>to except to the whole panel.</cd> <i>Cowell.</i> <i>Tomlins</i>. <i>Blount</i>. -- <col>Commission of array</col> <fld>(Eng. Hist.)</fld>, <cd>a commission given by the prince to officers in every county, to muster and <i>array<i> the inhabitants, or see them in a condition for war.</cd> <i>Blackstone.</i></cs>

<h1>Array</h1> <Xpage=83>

<hw>Ar*ray"</hw>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Arrayed</er> <tt>(#)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Arraying</er>.]</wordforms> <ety>[OE. <ets>araien</ets>, <ets>arraien</ets>, fr. OE. <ets>arraier</ets>, <ets>arreier</ets>, <ets>arreer</ets>, <ets>arroier</ets>, fr. <ets>arrai</ets>. See <er>Array</er>, <tt>n.</tt>]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>To place or dispose in order, as troops for battle; to marshal.</def>

<blockquote>By torch and trumpet fast <b>arrayed</b>, Each horseman drew his battle blade. <i>Campbell.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>These doubts will be <b>arrayed</b> before their minds. <i>Farrar.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To deck or dress; to adorn with dress; to cloth to envelop; -- applied esp. to dress of a splendid kind.</def>

<blockquote>Pharaoh . . . <b>arrayed</b> him in vestures of fine linen. <i>Gen. xli.<?/.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>In gelid caves with horrid gloom <b>arrayed</b>. <i>Trumbull.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <fld>(Law)</fld> <def>To set in order, as a jury, for the trial of a cause; that is, to call them man by man.</def>

<i>Blackstone.</i>

<cs><col>To array a panel</col>, <cd>to set forth in order the men that are impaneled.</cd></cs>

<i>Cowell. Tomlins.</i>

<syn>Syn. -- To draw up; arrange; dispose; set in order.</syn>

<h1>Arrayer</h1> <Xpage=83>

<hw>Ar*ray"er</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>One who arrays. In some early English statutes, applied to an officer who had care of the soldiers' armor, and who saw them duly accoutered.</def>

<h1>Arrear</h1> <Xpage=83>

<hw>Ar*rear"</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>adv.</tt> <ety>[OE. <ets>arere</ets>, OF. <ets>arere</ets>, <ets>ariere</ets>, F. <ets>arri\'8are</ets>, fr. L. <ets>ad + retro</ets> backward. See <er>Rear</er>.]</ety> <def>To or in the rear; behind; backwards.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Spenser.</i>