Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter A - Page 85
Arch- () A prefix signifying chief, as in archbuilder, archfiend.
Arch (a.) 為首的；主要的 Chief; eminent; greatest; principal.
The most arch act of piteous massacre. -- Shak.
Arch (a.) 調皮的,淘氣的 Cunning or sly; sportively mischievous; roguish; as, an arch look, word, lad.
[He] spoke his request with so arch a leer. -- Tatler.
Arch (n.) 首領；酋長 A chief. [Obs.]
My worthy arch and patron comes to-night. -- Shak.
-arch (a.) A suffix meaning a ruler, as in monarch (a sole ruler).
Arch (a.) (Used of behavior or attitude) 調皮的，淘氣的 Characteristic of those who treat others with condescension [syn: {arch}, {condescending}, {patronizing}, {patronising}].
Arch (a.) Expert in skulduggery; "an arch criminal".
Arch (a.) Naughtily or annoyingly playful; "teasing and worrying with impish laughter"; "a wicked prank" [syn: {arch}, {impish}, {implike}, {mischievous}, {pixilated}, {prankish}, {puckish}, {wicked}].
Arch (n.) [C] 拱，拱門，牌樓；拱形物；拱形 A curved shape in the vertical plane that spans an opening.
Arch (n.) A curved bony structure supporting or enclosing organs (especially the inner sides of the feet).
Arch (n.) A passageway under a curved masonry construction; "they built a triumphal arch to memorialize their victory" [syn: {arch}, {archway}].
Arch (n.) (Architecture) A masonry construction (usually curved) for spanning an opening and supporting the weight above it.
Arch (v.) Form an arch or curve; "her back arches"; "her hips curve nicely" [syn: {arch}, {curve}, {arc}].
Arch (n.) An architectural term found only in Ezek. 40:16, 21, 22, 26, 29. There is no absolute proof that the Israelites employed arches in their buildings. The arch was employed in the building of the pyramids of Egypt. The oldest existing arch is at Thebes, and bears the date B.C. 1350. There are also still found the remains of an arch, known as Robinson's Arch, of the bridge connecting Zion and Moriah. (See Tyropoeon {Valley}耶路撒冷泰羅邊谷.)
Archaean (a.) Ancient; pertaining to the earliest period in geological history.
Archaean (n.) The earliest period in geological period, extending up to the Lower Silurian. It includes an Azoic age, previous to the appearance of life, and an Eozoic age, including the earliest forms of life.
Archaeography (n.) A description of, or a treatise on, antiquity or antiquities.
Archaeolithic (a.) Of or pertaining to the earliest Stone age; -- applied to a prehistoric period preceding the Paleolithic age.
Archaeologian (n.) An archaeologist.
Archaeologic (a.) Alt. of Archaeological.
Archaeological (a.) 考古學的 Relating to archaeology, or antiquities; as, archaeological researches.
Archaeological (a.) (US also archeological) 考古學的；和考古有關的 Involving or relating to archaeology.
// An archaeological dig/ excavation.
// An area/ site of archaeological interest.
Archaeologist (n.) 考古學家 One versed in archaeology; an antiquary.
Archaeology (n.) 考古學 The science or study of antiquities, esp. prehistoric antiquities, such as the remains of buildings or monuments of an early epoch, inscriptions, implements, and other relics, written manuscripts, etc.
Archaeopteryx (n.) 始祖鳥 A fossil bird, of the Jurassic period, remarkable for having a long tapering tail of many vertebrae with feathers along each side, and jaws armed with teeth, with other reptilian characteristics.
Archaeopteryx (n.) Extinct primitive toothed bird of the Jurassic period having a long feathered tail and hollow bones; usually considered the most primitive of all birds [syn: {archaeopteryx}, {archeopteryx}, {Archaeopteryx lithographica}].
Archaeostomatous (a.) (Biol.) Applied to a gastrula when the blastopore does not entirely close up.
Archaeozoic (n.) The time from 1.5 billion to 5 billion years ago; the time when the earth's crust formed; a time when only unicellular organisms and the earliest forms of life are present.
Syn: Archeozoic, Archeozoic era, Archaeozoic era
Archaeozoic (a.) 始生代 [的] Like or belonging to the earliest forms of animal life.
Archaeozoic (a.) (Geol.) formed in or belonging to the earlier of two divisions of the Precambrian era. archaeozoic life forms
Syn: Archeozoic
Archaeozoic (a.) Of or belonging to earlier of two divisions of the Precambrian era; "archeozoic life forms" [syn: {archeozoic}, {archaeozoic}].
Archaeozoic (n.) The time from 3,800 million years to 2,500 million years ago; earth's crust formed; unicellular organisms are earliest forms of life [syn: {Archean}, {Archean eon}, {Archean aeon}, {Archeozoic}, {Archaeozoic}, {Archeozoic eon}, {Archaeozoic aeon}].
Archaic (a.) 已廢的，古老的，古代的，古體的；古色古香的 Of or characterized by antiquity or archaism; antiquated; obsolescent.
Archaic (a.) So extremely old as seeming to belong to an earlier period; "a ramshackle antediluvian tenement"; "antediluvian ideas"; "archaic laws" [syn: {antediluvian}, {antiquated}, {archaic}].
Archaic (a.) Little evolved from or characteristic of an earlier ancestral type; "archaic forms of life"; "primitive mammals"; "the okapi is a short-necked primitive cousin of the giraffe" [syn: {archaic}, {primitive}].
Archaic (a.) 古老的，古代的；原始的 Of or belonging to an ancient period in history.
// An archaic system of government.
// An archaic law/ rule/ language.
Archaical (a.) Archaic.
Archaicism (n.) the use of an archaic expression. Also, Archaism.
Archaism (n.) An ancient, antiquated, or old-fashioned, word, expression, or idiom; a word or form of speech no longer in common use.
Archaism (n.) Antiquity of style or use; obsoleteness.
Archaism (n.) [ C ] (Specialized) （一般不再使用的）古詞，古語 A word or expression that is not generally used any more.
Archaist (n.) Am antiquary.
Archaist (n.) One who uses archaisms.
Archaistic (a.) Like, or imitative of, anything archaic; pertaining to an archaism.
Archaized (imp. & p. p.) of Archaize
Archaizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Archaize
Archaize (v. t.) To make appear archaic or antique.
Archangel (n.) A chief angel; one high in the celestial hierarchy.
Archangel (n.) A term applied to several different species of plants (Angelica archangelica, Lamium album, etc.).
Archangelic (a.) Of or pertaining to archangels; of the nature of, or resembling, an archangel.
Archbishop (n.) A chief bishop; a church dignitary of the first class (often called a metropolitan or primate) who superintends the conduct of the suffragan bishops in his province, and also exercises episcopal authority in his own diocese.
Archbishopric (n.) The jurisdiction or office of an archbishop; the see or province over which archbishop exercises archiepiscopal authority.
Arch brick () A wedge-shaped brick used in the building of an arch.
Archbutler (n.) A chief butler; -- an officer of the German empire.
Archchamberlain (n.) A chief chamberlain; -- an officer of the old German empire, whose office was similar to that of the great chamberlain in England.
Archchancellor (n.) A chief chancellor; -- an officer in the old German empire, who presided over the secretaries of the court.
Archchemic (a.) Of supreme chemical powers.
Archdeacon (n.) In England, an ecclesiastical dignitary, next in rank below a bishop, whom he assists, and by whom he is appointed, though with independent authority.
Archdeaconry (n.) The district, office, or residence of an archdeacon. See Benefice.
Archdeaconship (n.) The office of an archdeacon.
Archdiocese (n.) The diocese of an archbishop.
Archducal (a.) Of or pertaining to an archduke or archduchy.
Archduchess (n.) The consort of an archduke; also, a princess of the imperial family of Austria. See Archduke.
Archduchy (n.) The territory of an archduke or archduchess.
Archduke (n.) A prince of the imperial family of Austria.
Archdukedom (n.) An archduchy.
Archebiosis (n.) The origination of living matter from non-living. See Abiogenesis.
Arched (a.) Made with an arch or curve; covered with an arch; as, an arched door.
Archegonial (a.) Relating to the archegonium.
Archegonium (n.) The pistillidium or female organ in the higher cryptogamic plants, corresponding to the pistil in flowering plants.
Archegony (n.) Spontaneous generation; abiogenesis.
Archelogy (n.) The science of, or a treatise on, first principles.
Archencephala (n. pl.) The division that includes man alone.
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.
Archeology (a.) Alt. of Archeological.
Archeological (a.) Same as Archaeology, etc.
Archer (n.) 弓箭手；射箭運動員 [C]；【天】（大寫）射手座 [the S] A bowman, one skilled in the use of the bow and arrow.
Archer (n.) A person who is expert in the use of a bow and arrow [syn: {archer}, {bowman}].
Archer (n.) (Astrology) A person who is born while the sun is in Sagittarius [syn: {Sagittarius}, {Archer}].
Archer (n.) The ninth sign of the zodiac; the sun is in this sign from about November 22 to December 21 [syn: {Sagittarius}, {Sagittarius the Archer}, {Archer}].
Archer (n.) A shooter with the bow (1 Chr. 10:3). This art was of high antiquity (Gen. 21:20; 27:3). Saul was wounded by the Philistine archers (1 Sam. 31:3). The phrase "breaking the bow" (Hos. 1:5; Jer. 49:35) is equivalent to taking away one's power, while "strengthening the bow" is a symbol of its increase (Gen. 49:24). The Persian archers were famous among the ancients (Isa. 13:18; Jer. 49:35; 50:9, 14, 29, 42. (See {Bow }).
Archeress (n.) A female archer.
Archer fish () 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.
Archership (n.) The art or skill of an archer.
Archery (n.) [U] 箭術，箭藝；射箭運動；（總稱）弓箭手；（總稱）射手用器，弓箭 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.
Archery (n.) The sport of shooting arrows with a bow.
Arches () pl. of Arch, n.
Archetypal (a.) 原型的 Of or pertaining to an archetype; consisting a model (real or ideal) or pattern; original. "One archetypal mind." -- Gudworth.
Note: Among Platonists, the archetypal world is the world as it existed as an idea of God before the creation.
Archetypal (a.) Representing or constituting an original type after which other similar things are patterned; "archetypal patterns"; "she was the prototypal student activist" [syn: {archetypal}, {archetypical}, {prototypal}, {prototypic}, {prototypical}].
Archetypally (adv.) 原型地 With reference to the archetype; originally. "Parts archetypally distinct." -- Dana.
Archetype (n.) 原型 The original pattern or model of a work; or the model from which a thing is made or formed.
The House of Commons, the archetype of all the representative assemblies which now meet. -- Macaulay.
Types and shadows of that glorious archetype that was to come into the world. -- South.
Archetype (n.) (Coinage) The standard weight or coin by which others are adjusted.
Archetype (n.) (Biol.) 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.
Archetype (n.) Something that serves as a model or a basis for making copies; "this painting is a copy of the original" [syn: {original}, {archetype}, {pilot}].
Archetypical (a.) Relating to an archetype; archetypal.
Archetypical (a.) Representing or constituting an original type after which other similar things are patterned; "archetypal patterns"; "she was the prototypal student activist" [syn: archetypal, archetypical, prototypal, prototypic, prototypical].
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.
Archi- () 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.
Archiannelida (n. pl.) A group of Annelida remarkable for having no external segments or distinct ventral nerve ganglions.
Archiater (n.) Chief physician; -- a term applied, on the continent of Europe, to the first or body physician of princes and to the first physician of some cities.
Archiblastula (n.) A hollow blastula, supposed to be the primitive form; a c/loblastula.
Archical (pref.) Chief; primary; primordial.
Archidiaconal (a.) Of or pertaining to an archdeacon.
Archiepiscopacy (n.) That form of episcopacy in which the chief power is in the hands of archbishops.
Archiepiscopacy (n.) The state or dignity of an archbishop.
Archiepiscopal (a.) Of or pertaining to an archbishop; as, Canterbury is an archiepiscopal see.
Archiepiscopality (n.) The station or dignity of an archbishop; archiepiscopacy.
Archiepiscopate (n.) The office of an archbishop; an archbishopric.
Archierey (n.) The higher order of clergy in Russia, including metropolitans, archbishops, and bishops.
Archil (n.) 【植】海石蕊（一種地衣）；苔色素 A violet dye obtained from several species of lichen ({Roccella tinctoria, etc.), which grow on maritime rocks in the Canary and Cape Verd Islands, etc. -- Tomlinson.
Archil (n.) The plant from which the dye is obtained. [Written also orchal and orchil.]
Archil (n.) A purplish dye obtained from orchil lichens [syn: orchil, archil, cudbear].
Archil (n.) Any of various lecanoras that yield the dye archil [syn: archil, orchil].
Archilochian (a.) Of or pertaining to the satiric Greek poet Archilochus; as, Archilochian meter.
Archimage (n.) Alt. of Archimagus.
Archimagus (n.) 大魔法師，大巫師 (Alternative form of Archimage) The high priest of the Persian Magi, or worshipers of fire.
Archimagus (n.) A great magician, wizard, or enchanter.
Compare: Archimage
Archimage (n.) 大魔術師 A great magician, wizard, or enchanter.
Compare: Enchant
Enchant (v.) [ T ] (Please) 使陶醉；使入迷 To attract or please someone very much.
// The audience was clearly enchanted by her performance.
Enchant (v.) [ T ] (Magic) 對…施魔法 To have a magical effect on someone or something.
Compare: Enchanter
Enchanter (n.) 巫師；使人著迷者 One that enchants; especially : Sorcerer.
Compare: Sorcerer
Sorcerer (n.) [C] 巫師；魔術師 A person who practices sorcery : Wizard.
Compare: Sorcery
Sorcery (n.) . [U] 巫術；魔術；魅力 The use of power gained from the assistance or control of evil spirits especially for divining : Necromancy.
Sorcery (n.) Magic 2a.
Compare: Necromancy
Necromancy (n.) 向亡魂問卜的巫術；妖術 Conjuration (see conjure 2a) of the spirits of the dead for purposes of magically revealing the future or influencing the course of events.
// The novel centers on the practice of necromancy and its influence on the world of the living.
Necromancy (n.) Magic, Sorcery.
// Townspeople accused her of necromancy.
- Necromancer (n.)
- Necromantic (a.)
- Necromantically (adv.)
Archimandrite (n.) A chief of a monastery, corresponding to abbot in the Roman Catholic church.
Archimandrite (n.) A superintendent of several monasteries, corresponding to superior abbot, or father provincial, in the Roman Catholic church.
Archimedean (a.) Of or pertaining to Archimedes, a celebrated Greek philosopher; constructed on the principle of Archimedes' screw; as, Archimedean drill, propeller, etc.
Archimedes (n.) An extinct genus of Bryzoa characteristic of the subcarboniferous rocks. Its form is that of a screw.
Arching (n.) The arched part of a structure.
Arching (n.) Hogging; -- opposed to sagging.
Archipelagic (a.) Of or pertaining to an archipelago.
-goes (n. pl. ) of Archipelago.
-gos (n. pl. ) of Archipelago.
Archipelago (n.) [C] 群島，列島；多島的海 The Grecian Archipelago, or Aegean Sea, separating Greece from Asia Minor. It is studded with a vast number of small islands.