English English Dictionary

A principal enemy. Specifically, Satan, the grand adversary of mankind.

Relating to the archenteron; as, archenteric invagination.

The primitive enteron or undifferentiated digestive sac of a gastrula or other embryo. See Illust. under Invagination.

Same as Archaeology, etc.

Alt. of Archeological

A bowman, one skilled in the use of the bow and arrow.

A small fish (Toxotes jaculator), of the East Indies; -- so called from its ejecting drops of water from its mouth at its prey. The name is also applied to Chaetodon rostratus.

A female archer.

The art or skill of an archer.

The use of the bow and arrows in battle, hunting, etc.; the art, practice, or skill of shooting with a bow and arrows.

Archers, or bowmen, collectively.

pl. of Arch, n.

Of or pertaining to an archetype; consisting a model (real or ideal) or pattern; original.

With reference to the archetype; originally. "Parts archetypally distinct."

The original pattern or model of a work; or the model from which a thing is made or formed.

The standard weight or coin by which others are adjusted.

The plan or fundamental structure on which a natural group of animals or plants or their systems of organs are assumed to have been constructed; as, the vertebrate archetype.

Relating to an archetype; archetypal.

The vital principle or force which (according to the Paracelsians) presides over the growth and continuation of living beings; the anima mundi or plastic power of the old philosophers.

A prefix signifying chief, arch; as, architect, archiepiscopal. In Biol. and Anat. it usually means primitive, original, ancestral; as, archipterygium, the primitive fin or wing.