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- English Word Arch Definition To form or bend into the shape of an arch.
- English Word Arch Definition To form into an arch; to curve.
- English Word Arch Definition Chief; eminent; greatest; principal.
- English Word Arch Definition Cunning or sly; sportively mischievous; roguish; as, an arch look, word, lad.
- English Word Arch Definition A chief.
- English Word Arch brick Definition A wedge-shaped brick used in the building of an arch.
- English Word Arch stone Definition A wedge-shaped stone used in an arch; a voussoir.
- English Word Arch- Definition A prefix signifying chief, as in archbuilder, archfiend.
- English Word Archaean Definition Ancient; pertaining to the earliest period in geological history.
- English Word Archaean Definition 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.
- English Word Archaeography Definition A description of, or a treatise on, antiquity or antiquities.
- English Word Archaeolithic Definition Of or pertaining to the earliest Stone age; -- applied to a prehistoric period preceding the Paleolithic age.
- English Word Archaeologian Definition An archaeologist.
- English Word Archaeologic Definition Alt. of Archaeological
- English Word Archaeological Definition Relating to archaeology, or antiquities; as, archaeological researches.
- English Word Archaeologist Definition One versed in archaeology; an antiquary.
- English Word Archaeology Definition 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.
- English Word Archaeopteryx Definition 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.
- English Word Archaeostomatous Definition Applied to a gastrula when the blastopore does not entirely close up.
- English Word Archaeozoic Definition Like or belonging to the earliest forms of animal life.
- English Word Archaic Definition Of or characterized by antiquity or archaism; antiquated; obsolescent.
- English Word Archaical Definition Archaic.
- English Word Archaism Definition An ancient, antiquated, or old-fashioned, word, expression, or idiom; a word or form of speech no longer in common use.
- English Word Archaism Definition Antiquity of style or use; obsoleteness.
- English Word Archaist Definition Am antiquary.
- English Word Archaist Definition One who uses archaisms.
- English Word Archaistic Definition Like, or imitative of, anything archaic; pertaining to an archaism.
- English Word Archaize Definition To make appear archaic or antique.
- English Word Archaized Definition of Archaize
- English Word Archaizing Definition of Archaize