40 ARB 
arbitrators; for, the arbitrators being perfons of the parties 
own choofing, the law prefumes that they would choofe 
perfons tvhofe underftanding and judgment they could re¬ 
ly on. Bur. Mans/. 701. 
Arbitrators cannot pro.ceed on a reference alone, after 
they- have once named an umpire ; for then their authority 
ceafetji, -though the. time for making, the award is not yet 
expired. Id. Arbitrators, of thenrfejv.es,,have no power 
to adminifter oaths to the vvitnelTes; but it is how fettled 
that they may-.award cods and damages, the fame as tho’ 
the matter had been tried at nifi prius. 
ARBITRATOR,/: An extraordinary.judge between 
party and party, chqfen by their mutual confent. A go¬ 
vernor ; a prefidejrt; 
Though heav’11 be (hut, 
And heav’n’s high arbitrator fit fecure 
In his own ftrength, this place may be expos’d. Milton. 
He that has the power of preferibing to others without 
limit or controul.—Another Blenheim or Ramilies will' 
make the confederates matters of their own terms, and ar¬ 
bitrators of a peace. Addifon. —The determiner; he that 
puts an end to any affair : 
The end crowns all; 
And that old common arbitrator , time, 
Will one day. end it. Sliakcfpeare. 
ARBI'TREMENT,y. [from arbitror, Lat v ] Decifion; 
determination.—1 know the knight is incenfed againft you, 
even to a mortal arbitrament \ but nothing of the circum- 
fiance more. ShakcJ'pcare. —Compromife.—Lukewarm per¬ 
fons think they may accommodate points of religion by 
middle ways, and witty reconcilements; as if they would 
make an arbitrement between God and man. Bacon. 
ARBOI'S, a fmall town of France, in the department 
of Jura, and late province of Tranche Compte, famous 
for its. wines. It is twenty-two miles, louth-vvett of Be- 
fanyon. Lat.46.55-N. Ion. 5.40. E. 
ARBON', an ancient town in Switterland, on the fouth 
banks of the Jake Conttance, in Thurgaw. It has a cattle 
built by the Romans, and is under the jurifdi.dtion of the 
bittiop of Conttance. In the time of war, the Swifs have 
a right to put in a garrifon. It is twelve miles loutji-eaft 
of Conttance. Lat.47.30. N. Ion. 9. 30. E. 
AR'BOR,y. in botany, a tree. Trees are by Linmcus 
claffed in the feventh family of the vegetable kingdom, 
.and are diftingujttied from flirubs in that their ttems come 
up -with buds on them ; but this diftinHion holds not uni- 
verfally, there being rarely any buds on the large trees in 
India. 
Arbor, in mechanics, the principal part of a machine 
which ferves to fuftain the reft ; alfo the axis or fpindle on 
Which a machine turns, as th 0 arbor of a,crane, windmill, &c. 
Arbor Camphor i'FEKA,y. in botany. SeeLAURUs. 
Arbor Cre'pitans. See Hura. 
Arbor Dia'n2E. See Chemistry. 
Arbor Ju'D.*,y in botany. See Cercis. 
Arbor Vi't^e. , See Thuya. 
AR'BOR ARY, adj.[atborarius,~Lat.'] Belonging to a tree. 
AR'BORET,y: [arbor, Lat. a tree.] A fmall tree or 
Ihrub: 
No arboret with painted blofloms drett, 
And fmelling" fvveet, but there it might be found, 
To bud out fair, and her fweet fmells throw all around, 
Fairy Queen. 
ARBO'REOUS, adj. \_arboreus, Lat.] Belonging to trees; 
conttituting a tree.—A grain of milliard becomes arbore¬ 
ous. Brown. —A term in botany, to diftinguifh fuch fun- 
gufes or modes as grow upon trees, from thofe that grow 
on the ground.—They fpeak properly, who make it an 
■arboreous excrefcence, or rather a fuperplant bred of a vif- 
■cous and fuperfluous lopp, which the tree itfelf cannot 
aflimulate. Brown. 
ARBORES'CENT, an epithet applied to fuch objeXs 
$s refemble trees. 
ARB 
ARBORIBON'ZES, in modern hiftory, priefts of Ja, 
pan, who live an erratic life, and fubfift on alms. They 
dwell in caverns, and cover their heads with bonnets made 
of the bark of trees. 
AR'BORIST,y [ arbor Jit, Fr. from arbor, a tree.] A 
naturalift- who makes trees his ftudy.—The nature of the 
mulberry, which arborijls obferve to be long in the 
begetting jiis, buds; but, the col'd feafons being part, he. 
ttioots them all out in a night. Brown. 
AR'BOROU.S, adj. [from arbor, Lat.] Belonging to a 
tree 
From under the fiiady arborous roof 
Soon as they forth were come to open light 
Of day-fpring and the fun, Milton. 
AR'BOUR,y [from arbor, Lat. a tree.] A bower; a 
place covered with green branches of trees: 
For noon-day’s heat are clofer at hours nrA&e •, 
And, for frelh ev’ning air, the op’ner glade. Drydcn. 
Arbour ViN T F,y A fpecies of Bindweed. 
ARBUR'THIE, a diftriX in the fhire of Kincardin, or 
Mearns, in Scotland. 
AR'BUSCLE,y [arbufciila, Lat.] An)' little flirub. 
ARBUS'TUM, y implies a number or multitude of 
trees planted for the fruit, as an orchard,- &c. The word 
is alfo applied to a place planted with trees for fattening 
vines to, which are hence called by Columella arbuJHvae. 
Arbuftum j.s Jikewiib ufed to denote an orchard w herein 
the trees are planted at : fuch diftances that there is mom. 
for ploughing and growing corn between. 
AR'BUTH.NOT (Alexander), principal of the univer- 
fity of Aberdeen in Scotland," was born in the-year 1538. 
He ttudied firtt at Aberdeen; and was afterwards lent to 
France, w here, under the famous Cujacius, he applied 
himfelf to the .ftudy of the civil law. In the year 1563, 
he returned^o Scotland, and took orders. In 1568, he 
was appointed minifter of Arbuthnot and Logy-Buchan ; 
and, in the following year, he was made principal of the 
king’s college at Aberdeen. In the general attembly. which 
met at Edinburgh in 1573 and 1577, he was chofen mode¬ 
rator; and to the end of his life was an aXive fupporter of 
the reformed religion. Lie died in 1583, in the forty- 
fifth year of his age; and was buried in the college church 
of Aberdeen. We are told in the Biographia, that he 
was eminent as a poet, a philosopher, a mathematician, a 
lawyer, a divine, and a phyfician. He wrote Orationes de 
OrigineHF Dignitate Juris, printed at Edinburgh, 1572, 4to. 
and he publiftied Buchanan’s Hiftory of Scotland in the 
year 1582. 
Arbuthnot (Dr. John), was born in Kincardinftrire, 
near Montrofe, and was’ educated at Aberdeen, where he 
received his degree in phyfic. The difficulties in which 
His family was involved on account of their political prin¬ 
ciples made it neceffary that he fhould court preferment 
elfewhere, therefore he went to London. The firtt cha- 
raXer in which he aXed there was a teacher of the ma¬ 
thematics ; and, while he was employed in this manner, he 
had occafion to publifti his Examination of Dr. Wood¬ 
ward’s Account of the Deluge. This trait, which abound¬ 
ed with learning and good fenfe, ferved to make him known. 
He publiftied foon after his Eflay on the Ufefulnefs of Ma¬ 
thematics. In the profeflion of phyfic he advanced by flow 
but lure degrees ; and his reputation in it was at length 
fully e'ftablifhed, by a f’uccefsful cure which he performed 
on prince George of Denmark. CHieen Anne, in corife- 
quence of it, appointed him one of her phyficians, and he 
was made a member of the Royal Society. His talents 
and worth were the ftrongett recommendations of him to 
the men of wit and learning of his day ; and he entered 
into particular connexions with Pope and Swift, with 
whom he joined in publifhing feveral volumes of mifcel- 
lanies. In 172-7, he publiftied Tables of ancient Coins, 
Weights, andMeafures; a work of great ufe, and real 
erudition. In 1732, his valuable traX concerning The 
Nature and Choice of Aliments appeared; which, the year 
2 ■ v " after,- 
