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  • English Word Archeology Definition Alt. of Archeological
  • English Word Archer Definition A bowman, one skilled in the use of the bow and arrow.
  • English Word Archer fish Definition 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.
  • English Word Archeress Definition A female archer.
  • English Word Archership Definition The art or skill of an archer.
  • English Word Archery Definition The use of the bow and arrows in battle, hunting, etc.; the art, practice, or skill of shooting with a bow and arrows.
  • English Word Archery Definition Archers, or bowmen, collectively.
  • English Word Arches Definition pl. of Arch, n.
  • English Word Archetypal Definition Of or pertaining to an archetype; consisting a model (real or ideal) or pattern; original.
  • English Word Archetypally Definition With reference to the archetype; originally. "Parts archetypally distinct."
  • English Word Archetype Definition The original pattern or model of a work; or the model from which a thing is made or formed.
  • English Word Archetype Definition The standard weight or coin by which others are adjusted.
  • English Word Archetype Definition 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.
  • English Word Archetypical Definition Relating to an archetype; archetypal.
  • English Word Archeus Definition 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.
  • English Word Archi- Definition 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.
  • English Word Archiannelida Definition A group of Annelida remarkable for having no external segments or distinct ventral nerve ganglions.
  • English Word Archiater Definition 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.
  • English Word Archiblastula Definition A hollow blastula, supposed to be the primitive form; a c/loblastula.
  • English Word Archical Definition Chief; primary; primordial.
  • English Word Archidiaconal Definition Of or pertaining to an archdeacon.
  • English Word Archiepiscopacy Definition That form of episcopacy in which the chief power is in the hands of archbishops.
  • English Word Archiepiscopacy Definition The state or dignity of an archbishop.
  • English Word Archiepiscopal Definition Of or pertaining to an archbishop; as, Canterbury is an archiepiscopal see.
  • English Word Archiepiscopality Definition The station or dignity of an archbishop; archiepiscopacy.
  • English Word Archiepiscopate Definition The office of an archbishop; an archbishopric.
  • English Word Archierey Definition The higher order of clergy in Russia, including metropolitans, archbishops, and bishops.
  • English Word Archil Definition 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.
  • English Word Archil Definition The plant from which the dye is obtained.
  • English Word Archilochian Definition Of or pertaining to the satiric Greek poet Archilochus; as, Archilochian meter.