Part 651

<h1>Arrhythmic, Arrhythmous</h1> <Xpage=84>

<hw><hw>Ar*rhyth"mic</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <hw>Ar*rhyth"mous</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>,<hw> <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[Gr. <?/; <?/ priv. + <?/ rhythm.]</ety> <fld>(Med.)</fld> <def>Being without rhythm or regularity, as the pulse.</def>

<h1>Arrhytmy</h1> <Xpage=84>

<hw>Ar"rhyt*my</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Gr. <?/; <?/ priv. + <?/ rhythm.]</ety> <def>Want of rhythm.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark>

<h1>Arride</h1> <Xpage=84>

<hw>Ar*ride"</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>arridere</ets>; <ets>ad + ridere</ets> to laugh.]</ety> <def>To please; to gratify.</def> <mark>[Archaic]</mark>

<i>B. Jonson.</i>

<blockquote>Above all thy rarities, old Oxenford, what do most <b>arride</b> and solace me are thy repositories of moldering learning. <i>Lamb.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Arriere</h1> <Xpage=84>

<hw>Ar*riere"</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[F. <ets>arri\'8are</ets>. See <er>Arrear</er>.]</ety> <def>"That which is behind"; the rear; -- chiefly used as an adjective in the sense of <i>behind</i>, <i>rear</i>, <i>subordinate</i>.</def>

<cs><mcol><col>Arriere fee</col>, <col>Arriere fief</col></mcol>, <cd>a fee or fief dependent on a superior fee, or a fee held of a feudatory.</cd> -- <col>Arriere vassal</col>, <cd>the vassal of a vassal.</cd></cs>

<h1>Arriere-ban</h1> <Xpage=84>

<hw>Ar*riere"-ban`</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[F., fr. OE. <ets>arban</ets>, <ets>heriban</ets>, fr. OHG. <ets>hariban</ets>, <ets>heriban</ets>, G. <ets>heerbann</ets>, the calling together of an army; OHG. <ets>heri</ets> an army + <ets>ban</ets> a public call or order. The French have misunderstood their old word, and have changed it into <ets>arri\'8are</ets>-<ets>ban</ets>, though <ets>arri\'8are</ets> has no connection with its proper meaning. See <er>Ban</er>, <er>Abandon</er>.]</ety> <def>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.</def>

<h1>Arris</h1> <Xpage=84>

<hw>Ar"ris</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[OF. <ets>areste</ets>, F. <ets>ar\'88te</ets>, fr. L. <ets>arista</ets> the top or beard of an ear of grain, the bone of a fish.]</ety> <fld>(Arch.)</fld> <def>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.</def>

<i>P. Cyc.</i>

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

<h1>Arrish</h1> <Xpage=84>

<hw>Ar"rish</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[See <er>Eddish</er>.]</ety> <def>The stubble of wheat or grass; a stubble field; eddish.</def> <mark>[Eng.]</mark> <altsp>[Written also <asp>arish</asp>, <asp>ersh</asp>, etc.]</altsp>

<blockquote>The moment we entered the stubble or <b>arrish</b>. <i>Blackw. Mag.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Arriswise</h1> <Xpage=84>

<hw>Ar"ris*wise`</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>adv.</tt> <def>Diagonally laid, as tiles; ridgewise.</def>

<h1>Arrival</h1> <Xpage=84>

<hw>Ar*riv"al</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[From <er>Arrive</er>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>The act of arriving, or coming; the act of reaching a place from a distance, whether by water (as in its original sense) or by land.</def>

<blockquote>Our watchmen from the towers, with longing eyes, Expect his swift <b>arrival</b>. <i>Dryden.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>The attainment or reaching of any object, by effort, or in natural course; <as>as, our <ex>arrival</ex> at this conclusion was wholly unexpected</as>.</def>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>The person or thing arriving or which has arrived; <as>as, news brought by the last <ex>arrival</ex></as>.</def>

<blockquote>Another <b>arrival</b> still more important was speedily announced. <i>Macaulay.</i></blockquote>