English English Dictionary
English English Dictionary
The online English-English dictionary from The Project Gutenberg
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Archenemy
(n.)
A principal enemy. Specifically, Satan, the grand
adversary of mankind.
Archenteric
(a.)
Relating to the archenteron; as, archenteric
invagination.
Archenteron
(n.)
The primitive enteron or undifferentiated digestive
sac of a gastrula or other embryo. See Illust. under Invagination.
Archeological
(a.)
Same as Archaeology, etc.
Archeology
(a.)
Alt. of Archeological
Archer
(n.)
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.
Archeress
(n.)
A female archer.
Archership
(n.)
The art or skill of an archer.
Archery
(n.)
The use of the bow and arrows in battle, hunting, etc.;
the art, practice, or skill of shooting with a bow and arrows.
Archery
(n.)
Archers, or bowmen, collectively.
pl. of Arch, n.
Archetypal
(a.)
Of or pertaining to an archetype; consisting a model
(real or ideal) or pattern; original.
Archetypally
(adv.)
With reference to the archetype; originally. "Parts
archetypally distinct."
Archetype
(n.)
The original pattern or model of a work; or the model
from which a thing is made or formed.
Archetype
(n.)
The standard weight or coin by which others are
adjusted.
Archetype
(n.)
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.
Archetypical
(a.)
Relating to an archetype; archetypal.
Archeus
(n.)
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.