Part 654

<p><b>2.</b> <fld>(Civ. Law)</fld> <def>Adoption of a person of full age.</def>

<h1>Arrogative</h1> <Xpage=84>

<hw>Ar"ro*ga*tive</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Making undue claims and pretension; prone to arrogance.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark>

<i>Dr. H. More.</i>

<h1>Arrondissement</h1> <Xpage=84>

<hw>Ar`ron`disse`ment"</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[F., fr. <ets>arrondir</ets> to make round; <ets>ad + rond</ets> round, L. <ets>rotundus</ets>.]</ety> <def>A subdivision of a department.</def> <mark>[France]</mark>

<note>&hand; The territory of France, since the revolution, has been divided into <i>departments</i>, those into <i>arrondissements</i>, those into <i>cantons</i>, and the latter into <i>communes</i>.</note>

<h1>Arrose</h1> <Xpage=84>

<hw>Ar*rose"</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <ety>[F. <ets>arroser</ets>.]</ety> <def>To drench; to besprinkle; to moisten.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<blockquote>The blissful dew of heaven does <b>arrose</b> you. <i>Two N. Kins.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Arrosion</h1> <Xpage=84>

<hw>Ar*ro"sion</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>arrodere</ets>, <ets>arrosum</ets>, to gnaw: cf. F. <ets>arrosion</ets>.]</ety> <def>A gnawing.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Bailey.</i>

<h1>Arrow</h1> <Xpage=84>

<hw>Ar"row</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[OE. <ets>arewe</ets>, AS. <ets>arewe</ets>, <ets>earh</ets>; akin to Icel. <ets>\'94r</ets>, <ets>\'94rvar</ets>, Goth. <ets>arhwazna</ets>, and perh. L. <ets>arcus</ets> bow. Cf. <er>Arc</er>.]</ety> <def>A missile weapon of offense, slender, pointed, and usually feathered and barbed, to be shot from a bow.</def>

<cs><col>Broad arrow</col>. <cd><sd>(a)</sd> An arrow with a broad head. <sd>(b)</sd> A mark placed upon British ordnance and government stores, which bears a rude resemblance to a broad arrowhead.</cd></cs>

<h1>Arrow grass</h1> <Xpage=84>

<hw>Ar"row grass`</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <fld>(Bot.)</fld> <def>An herbaceous grasslike plant <spn>(Triglochin palustre, and other species)</spn> with pods opening so as to suggest barbed arrowheads.</def>

<h1>Arrowhead</h1> <Xpage=84>

<hw>Ar"row*head`</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>The head of an arrow.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <fld>(Bot.)</fld> <def>An aquatic plant of the genus <spn>Sagittaria</spn>, esp. <spn>S. sagittifolia</spn>, -- named from the shape of the leaves.</def>

<h1>Arrowheaded</h1> <Xpage=84>

<hw>Ar"row*head`ed</hw>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Shaped like the head of an arow; cuneiform.</def>

<cs><col>Arrowheaded characters</col>, <cd>characters the elements of which consist of strokes resembling arrowheads, nailheads, or wedges; -- hence called also <i>nail-headed<i>, <i>wedge-formed<i>, <i>cuneiform<i>, or <i>cuneatic<i> characters; the oldest written characters used in the country about the Tigris and Euphrates, and subsequently in Persia, and abounding among the ruins of Persepolis, Nineveh, and Babylon. See <er>Cuneiform</er>.</cd></cs>

<h1>Arrowroot</h1> <Xpage=84>

<hw>Ar"row*root`</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <fld>(Bot.)</fld> <def>A west Indian plant of the genus <spn>Maranta</spn>, esp. <spn>M. arundinacea</spn>, now cultivated in many hot countries. It said that the Indians used the roots to neutralize the venom in wounds made by poisoned arrows.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>A nutritive starch obtained from the rootstocks of <spn>Maranta arundinacea</spn>, and used as food, esp. for children an invalids; also, a similar starch obtained from other plants, as various species of <spn>Maranta</spn> and <spn>Curcuma</spn>.</def>

<h1>Arrowwood</h1> <Xpage=84>