ARB 



ARC 



these dimir.i iturors ascend the 



air, and contribute to fill it with that infi- 

 nity of iloatin:;- cobwebs which ar- 

 i:uliai ' it that 1 of the 



U hen inclined to make these aerial 



eminence, us the toj) of a wall, or tin: 

 branch of a tree ; and turning itsrlf with 

 ..ards the wind, ejaculates 

 and rising from its sta- 

 tion, commits itself to the gale, and is 

 irried far beyond the height of the 

 loftiest towers, and enjoys the pleasure. 

 f a clearer atmosphere. Durin, 

 flight it is probable that spiders employ 

 Ivesin catching such minute wing- 

 ed ins: happen to occur in their 

 progress ; and when satisfied with their 

 tourney and their prey, they suffer thcni- 

 tofall, by contracting their limbs, 

 and gradually disengaging then. 

 from the thread which supports them. 

 'late I. F.ntomology, fig. 7 and 8. 



\UArCARIA, in botany, a genus of 

 the Dioecia Monadelphia class and order. 

 Male, calyx scales of an ament, terminated 

 by a leaflet ; no corol. ; anthers 10 to 

 12, \\ ithout filaments. Female, calyx, an 

 ament with many germs ; no corol. ; stig- 

 ma two-valved, unequal ; seeds numer- 

 ous, in a roundish cone. 



AHJJITEK, in civil law, a judge nomi- 

 nated by tin- magistrate, or chosen volun- 

 tarily h\ two parties, in order to decide 

 their differences according to law. 



The civilians make this difference be- 

 tween arbiter and arbitrator ; though 

 both ground their power on the compro- 

 Mieir liberty is dif- 

 . tor an arbiter is to judge accord- 

 ing to the usages of the law, but the arbi- 

 >wn discre- 

 tion, and accommodate the cl 



.:mer that appears to him most just 

 and equitable. 



MM! I TKATI ON, a power given by two 

 r more contendn ic per- 



son or persons to determine t!ie dispute 

 hetwei-u them ; if the two do not ag 

 is usual to add, that another person be 

 railed as umpire, to whose sole judgment 

 it is then referred. The submission to 

 arbitration is the authority given by the 

 ' in controversy to the arb>' 



to determine and end ti.eir 

 and this hein inent, 



must not be strictly taken, 

 according to the intent of I!K- parties 

 submitted. Thei ,rident 



to an arbitration : 1. M -rovei- 



sy 2. Submission 

 mission. 4. A.rbit. up tj;c 



VOl. 1 



arbitration. \Jat; 



hold, debts due on bond, aii : 



not to be a 



AKIUTK ATOIJ, ;, ,..-. -rdiiu- 



ry judge, chosen by the 11111' 

 of pan .-iuinecon'.i 



what is equal between both 

 the performance must : 

 sible. An action of debt ma 1 . 

 for money adjudged to be paid by arbitra- 

 tors. 



ARROR Dim: 'ay. 



Am. ee THTJA. 



AKBIIR, in mechanics, the principal 

 part of a machine wh'n 



rt ; aJso the axis or spindle on 

 which a machine turns, as the arbor of a 

 crane, windinill, I 



ARUl II - in bo- 



tany, a genus uf t:^ 

 class of plants, the calyx of \vhi< 

 very small, obtuse, permanent perianthi- 

 um, divided into t corol- 



la consists of a sil :vided 



also into five segments; tl .round- 



ish berry, containing i:\ : small 



- seOrls. There are ti 



. is that \ hic'n has the 

 same centre v, ith another arc. 



A uc tlii-niti!, that part of a ciri 

 scribed by a heavenly body between its 

 rising and setting; as the nocturnal arc i.> 

 that described between its setting and 

 both these together are always 

 equal 



eqtuil, those which contain the 

 same number of <! L \\ hose ra- 



, qual. 



AKCA, in natural history, a genus of 

 worms of the order T ."unal a 



tethys ; shell bivalve, equivahe ; hinge 

 with numerous sharp teeth, alternately 



'.u-.ited into fou;- 



\ery entire, !>e.ik-> r 

 margin entire, be.ika inflected; c. margin 



n:ite, beaks inflected: of the I 

 \ 



found t 



it is wh 



Jar, \\ i'h \ 



.'.epression behind the beak, heurt- 



()f the division C. b the A. antiquata, 

 ;ucntly on the coast of 



