English Dictionary: araroba | by the DICT Development Group |
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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Goa powder \Go"a pow"der\ [So called from Goa, on the Malabar coast, whither it was shipped from Portugal.] A bitter powder (also called {araroba}) found in the interspaces of the wood of a Brazilian tree ({Andira araroba}) and used as a medicine. It is the material from which chrysarobin is obtained. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Arriere \Ar*riere"\, n. [F. arri[8a]re. See {Arrear}.] [bd]That which is behind[b8]; the rear; -- chiefly used as an adjective in the sense of behind, rear, subordinate. {Arriere fee}, {Arriere fief}, a fee or fief dependent on a superior fee, or a fee held of a feudatory. {Arriere vassal}, the vassal of a vassal. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Arriere \Ar*riere"\, n. [F. arri[8a]re. See {Arrear}.] [bd]That which is behind[b8]; the rear; -- chiefly used as an adjective in the sense of behind, rear, subordinate. {Arriere fee}, {Arriere fief}, a fee or fief dependent on a superior fee, or a fee held of a feudatory. {Arriere vassal}, the vassal of a vassal. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Arriere \Ar*riere"\, n. [F. arri[8a]re. See {Arrear}.] [bd]That which is behind[b8]; the rear; -- chiefly used as an adjective in the sense of behind, rear, subordinate. {Arriere fee}, {Arriere fief}, a fee or fief dependent on a superior fee, or a fee held of a feudatory. {Arriere vassal}, the vassal of a vassal. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Arriere-ban \Ar*riere"-ban`\, n. [F., fr. OE. arban, heriban, fr. OHG. hariban, heriban, G. heerbann, the calling together of an army; OHG. heri an army + ban a public call or order. The French have misunderstood their old word, and have changed it into arri[8a]re-ban, though arri[8a]re has no connection with its proper meaning. See {Ban}, {Abandon}.] 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. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Aurora \Au*ro"ra\, n.; pl. E. {Auroras}, L. (rarely used) {Auror[91]}. [L. aurora, for ausosa, akin to Gr. [?], [?], dawn, Skr. ushas, and E. east.] 1. The rising light of the morning; the dawn of day; the redness of the sky just before the sun rises. 2. The rise, dawn, or beginning. --Hawthorne. 3. (Class. Myth.) The Roman personification of the dawn of day; the goddess of the morning. The poets represented her a rising out of the ocean, in a chariot, with rosy fingers dropping gentle dew. 4. (Bot.) A species of crowfoot. --Johnson. 5. The aurora borealis or aurora australis (northern or southern lights). {Aurora borealis}, i. e., northern daybreak; popularly called northern lights. A luminous meteoric phenomenon, visible only at night, and supposed to be of electrical origin. This species of light usually appears in streams, ascending toward the zenith from a dusky line or bank, a few degrees above the northern horizon; when reaching south beyond the zenith, it forms what is called the corona, about a spot in the heavens toward which the dipping needle points. Occasionally the aurora appears as an arch of light across the heavens from east to west. Sometimes it assumes a wavy appearance, and the streams of light are then called merry dancers. They assume a variety of colors, from a pale red or yellow to a deep red or blood color. The {Aurora australis}is a corresponding phenomenon in the southern hemisphere, the streams of light ascending in the same manner from near the southern horizon. |