. A soft ornamental terra-cotta pottery, sold in the biscuit state for decorating. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. 1. 1 any of several varieties of cultivated sour cherry trees of the species Prunus cerasus bearing fruit with colorless juice, e.g. Prunus cerasus caproniana. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

2. a pale red sour cherry with colorless or nearly colorless juice. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

‖n. [ Gr. &unr_;; &unr_; similar to + &unr_; Mars. It was thought to resemble Mars in color. ] The principal star in Scorpio: -- called also the Scorpion's Heart. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ Sp. ] A kind of pack saddle used in the American military service and among the Spanish Americans. It is made of leather stuffed with hay, moss, or the like. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. apparel, apareil, OF. apareil, appareil, preparation, provision, furniture, OF. apareiller to match, prepare, F. appareiller; OF. a (L. ad) + pareil like, similar, fr. LL. pariculus, dim. of L. par equal. See Pair. ] 1. External clothing; vesture; garments; dress; garb; external habiliments or array. [ 1913 Webster ]

Fresh in his new apparel, proud and young. Denham. [ 1913 Webster ]

At public devotion his resigned carriage made religion appear in the natural apparel of simplicity. Tatler. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A small ornamental piece of embroidery worn on albs and some other ecclesiastical vestments. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Naut.) The furniture of a ship, as masts, sails, rigging, anchors, guns, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Dress; clothing; vesture; garments; raiment; garb; costume; attire; habiliments. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Appareled, or Apparelled p. pr. & vb. n. Appareling, or Apparelling. ] [ OF. apareiller. ] 1. To make or get (something) ready; to prepare. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To furnish with apparatus; to equip; to fit out. [ 1913 Webster ]

Ships . . . appareled to fight. Hayward. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To dress or clothe; to attire. [ 1913 Webster ]

They which are gorgeously appareled, and live delicately, are in kings' courts. Luke vii. 25. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To dress with external ornaments; to cover with something ornamental; to deck; to embellish; as, trees appareled with flowers, or a garden with verdure. [ 1913 Webster ]

Appareled in celestial light. Wordsworth. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. 1 wearing clothes. the elegantly appareled gentleman
Syn. -- attired, clad, dressed, garbed, garmented, habilimented, robed. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ OF. aparence. ] Appearance. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. Appearance. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Apparentness; state of being apparent. Coleridge. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The position of being heir apparent. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ F. apparent, L. apparens, -entis, p. pr. of apparere. See Appear. ] 1. Capable of being seen, or easily seen; open to view; visible to the eye; within sight or view. [ 1913 Webster ]

The moon . . . apparent queen. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Clear or manifest to the understanding; plain; evident; obvious; known; palpable; indubitable. [ 1913 Webster ]

It is apparent foul play. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Appearing to the eye or mind (distinguished from, but not necessarily opposed to, true or real); seeming; as the apparent motion or diameter of the sun. [ 1913 Webster ]

To live on terms of civility, and even of apparent friendship. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

What Berkeley calls visible magnitude was by astronomers called apparent magnitude. Reid. [ 1913 Webster ]

Apparent horizon, the circle which in a level plain bounds our view, and is formed by the apparent meeting of the earth and heavens, as distinguished from the rational horizon. --
Apparent time. See Time. --
Heir apparent (Law), one whose to an estate is indefeasible if he survives the ancestor; -- in distinction from presumptive heir. See Presumptive. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Visible; distinct; plain; obvious; clear; certain; evident; manifest; indubitable; notorious. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. An heir apparent. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

I'll draw it [ the sword ] as apparent to the crown. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. 1. Visibly. [ Obs. ] Hobbes. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Plainly; clearly; manifestly; evidently. [ 1913 Webster ]

If he should scorn me so apparently. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Seemingly; in appearance; as, a man may be apparently friendly, yet malicious in heart. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Plainness to the eye or the mind; visibleness; obviousness. [ R. ] Sherwood. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who appears. Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ F., fr. Ital acquerello, fr. acqua water, L. aqua. ] A design or painting in thin transparent water colors; also, the mode of painting in such colors. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A painter in thin transparent water colors. [ 1913 Webster ]

[ AS. (Northumbrian) aron, akin to the 1st pers. pl. forms, Icel. erum, Goth. sijum, L. sumus, Gr. &unr_;, Skr. smas; all from a root as. &unr_; See Am and Is, and cf. Be. ] The present indicative plural of the substantive verb to be; but etymologically a different word from be, or was. Am, art, are, and is, all come from the root as. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F., fr. L. area. See Area. ] (Metric system) The unit of superficial measure, being a square of which each side is ten meters in length; 100 square meters, or about 119.6 square yards. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Areas [ L. area a broad piece of level ground. Cf. Are, n. ] 1. Any plane surface, as of the floor of a room or church, or of the ground within an inclosure; an open space in a building. [ 1913 Webster ]

The Alban lake . . . looks like the area of some vast amphitheater. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The inclosed space on which a building stands. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The sunken space or court, giving ingress and affording light to the basement of a building. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. An extent of surface; a tract of the earth's surface; a region; as, vast uncultivated areas. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. (Geom.) The superficial contents of any figure; the surface included within any given lines; superficial extent; as, the area of a square or a triangle. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. (Biol.) A spot or small marked space; as, the germinative area. [ 1913 Webster ]

7. Extent; scope; range; as, a wide area of thought. [ 1913 Webster ]

The largest area of human history and man's common nature. F. Harrison. [ 1913 Webster ]

Dry area. See under Dry. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. L. arealis, fr. area. ] Of or pertaining to an area; as, areal interstices (the areas or spaces inclosed by the reticulate vessels of leaves). [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. & i. [ AS. ār&aemacr_;ran. See Rear. ] To raise; to set up; to stir up. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. [ See Arrear, adv. ] Backward; in or to the rear; behindhand. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ Canarese adiki: cf. Pg. & Sp. areca. ] (Bot.) A genus of palms, one species of which (Areca catechu) produces the areca nut, or betel nut, which is chewed in India and Southeast Asia with the leaf of the Piper Betle and lime. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

n. 1. 1 one of four subclasses or superorder of Monocotyledones; comprises about 6400 species in 5 families of trees and shrubs and terrestrial herbs and a few free-floating aquatics including: Palmae; Araceae; Pandanaceae: and Lemnaceae.
Syn. -- subclass Arecidae [ WordNet 1.5 ]

{ } v. t. [ OE. areden, AS. ār&aemacr_;dan to interpret. See Read. ] 1. To tell, declare, explain, or interpret; to divine; to guess; as, to aread a riddle or a dream. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Therefore more plain aread this doubtful case. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To read. [ Obs. ] Drayton. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To counsel, advise, warn, or direct. [ 1913 Webster ]

But mark what I aread thee now. Avaunt! Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To decree; to adjudge. [ Archaic ] Ld. Lytton. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. & a. [ Pref. a- + reek. ] In a reeking condition. Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. arefacere to dry. ] The act of drying, or the state of growing dry. [ 1913 Webster ]

The arefaction of the earth. Sir M. Hale. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ L. arere to be dry + -fly. ] To dry, or make dry. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. E. Arenas L. Arenæ [ L. arena, harena, sand, a sandy place. ] 1. (Rom. Antiq.) The area in the central part of an amphitheater, in which the gladiators fought and other shows were exhibited; -- so called because it was covered with sand. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Any place of public contest or exertion; any sphere of action; as, the arenaof debate; the arena of life. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Med.) “Sand” or “gravel” in the kidneys. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. arenaceus, fr. arena sand. ] Sandy or consisting largely of sand; of the nature of sand; easily disintegrating into sand; friable; as, arenaceous limestone. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. arenarius, fr. arena sand. ] Sandy; as, arenarious soil. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. arenatio, fr. arena sand. ] (Med.) A sand bath; application of hot sand to the body. Dunglison. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ LL. arendator, arrendator, fr. arendare, arrendare, to pay rent, fr. arenda yearly rent; ad + renda, F. rente, E. rent. Cf. Arrentation and Rent. ] In some provinces of Russia, one who farms the rents or revenues. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ A person who rents an estate belonging to the crown is called crown arendator. Tooke. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖‖ n. [ Malayan. ] A palm tree (Saguerus saccharifer) which furnishes sago, wine, and fibers for ropes; the gomuti palm. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. arena sand + colere to cherish or live. ] (Paleon.) An ancient wormhole in sand, preserved in the rocks. Dana. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. growing or living or burrowing in sand. arenicolous worms [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. [ L. arena sand + Gr. li`qos stone. ] Of or pertaining to sandstone; as, arenilitic mountains. Kirwan. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. arenosus, fr. arena sand. ] Sandy; full of sand. Johnson. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. arenula fine sand, dim. of arena. ] Full of fine sand; like sand. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Areolæ [ L. areola, dim. of area: cf. F. aréole. See Area. ] 1. An interstice or small space, as between the cracks of the surface in certain crustaceous lichens; or as between the fibers composing organs or vessels that interlace; or as between the nervures of an insect's wing. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Anat. & Med.) The colored ring around the nipple, or around a vesicle or pustule. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Pertaining to, or like, an areola; filled with interstices or areolæ. [ 1913 Webster ]

reolar tissue (Anat.), a form of fibrous connective tissue in which the fibers are loosely arranged with numerous spaces, or areolæ, between them. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. [ L. areola: cf. F. aréole. ] Divided into small spaces or areolations, as the wings of insects, the leaves of plants, or the receptacle of compound flowers. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. Division into areolæ. Dana. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Any small space, bounded by some part different in color or structure, as the spaces bounded by the nervures of the wings of insects, or those by the veins of leaves; an areola. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Same as Areola. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Dim. of L. areola. ] (Zool.) A small inclosed area; esp. one of the small spaces on the wings of insects, circumscribed by the veins. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. 'araio`s thin, rare + -meter: cf. F. aréomètre. ] (Physics) An instrument for measuring the specific gravity of fluids; a form hydrometer. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. Pertaining to, or measured by, an areometer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. 'araio`s thin, rare + -metry. ] The art or process of measuring the specific gravity of fluids. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Areopagite. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. Areopagites, Gr. &unr_;. ] A member of the Areopagus. Acts xvii. 34. [ 1913 Webster ]