The buttocks, or hind part of an animal; the posteriors; the fundament; the bottom.

A public establishment for the storage, or for the manufacture and storage, of arms and all military equipments, whether for land or naval service.

A salt of arsenic acid.

See Arsenate.

One of the elements, a solid substance resembling a metal in its physical properties, but in its chemical relations ranking with the nonmetals. It is of a steel-gray color and brilliant luster, though usually dull from tarnish. It is very brittle, and sublimes at 356¡ Fahrenheit. It is sometimes found native, but usually combined with silver, cobalt, nickel, iron, antimony, or sulphur. Orpiment and realgar are two of its sulphur compounds, the first of which is the true arsenicum of the ancients. The element and its compounds are active poisons. Specific gravity from 5.7 to 5.9. Atomic weight 75. Symbol As.

Arsenious oxide or arsenious anhydride; -- called also arsenious acid, white arsenic, and ratsbane.

Pertaining to, or derived from, arsenic; -- said of those compounds of arsenic in which this element has its highest equivalence; as, arsenic acid.

Of or pertaining to, or containing, arsenic; as, arsenical vapor; arsenical wall papers.

of Arsenicate

of Arsenicate

To combine with arsenic; to treat or impregnate with arsenic.

A diseased condition produced by slow poisoning with arsenic.

A compound of arsenic with a metal, or positive element or radical; -- formerly called arseniuret.

Containing or producing arsenic.

Pertaining to, consisting of, or containing, arsenic; as, arsenious powder or glass.

Pertaining to, or derived from, arsenic, when having an equivalence next lower than the highest; as, arsenious acid.

A salt formed by the union of arsenious acid with a base.

See Arsenide.

Combined with arsenic; -- said some elementary substances or radicals; as, arseniureted hydrogen.

A mineral of a tin-white color and metallic luster, containing arsenic, sulphur, and iron; -- also called arsenical pyrites and mispickel.

Smartweed; water pepper.

A Russian measure of length = 2 ft. 4.246 inches.

A compound of arsenic and hydrogen, AsH3, a colorless and exceedingly poisonous gas, having an odor like garlic; arseniureted hydrogen.

That part of a foot where the ictus is put, or which is distinguished from the rest (known as the thesis) of the foot by a greater stress of voice.

That elevation of voice now called metrical accentuation, or the rhythmic accent.

The elevation of the hand, or that part of the bar at which it is raised, in beating time; the weak or unaccented part of the bar; -- opposed to thesis.

Arithmetic.

The malicious burning of a dwelling house or outhouse of another man, which by the common law is felony; the malicious and voluntary firing of a building or ship.

The second person singular, indicative mode, present tense, of the substantive verb Be; but formed after the analogy of the plural are, with the ending -t, as in thou shalt, wilt, orig. an ending of the second person sing. pret. Cf. Be. Now used only in solemn or poetical style.

The employment of means to accomplish some desired end; the adaptation of things in the natural world to the uses of life; the application of knowledge or power to practical purposes.