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  • English Word Array Definition To set in order, as a jury, for the trial of a cause; that is, to call them man by man.
  • English Word Arrayed Definition of Array
  • English Word Arrayer Definition One who arrays. In some early English statutes, applied to an officer who had care of the soldiers' armor, and who saw them duly accoutered.
  • English Word Arraying Definition of Array
  • English Word Arrayment Definition Clothes; raiment.
  • English Word Arrear Definition To or in the rear; behind; backwards.
  • English Word Arrear Definition That which is behind in payment, or which remains unpaid, though due; esp. a remainder, or balance which remains due when some part has been paid; arrearage; -- commonly used in the plural, as, arrears of rent, wages, or taxes.
  • English Word Arrearage Definition That which remains unpaid and overdue, after payment of a part; arrears.
  • English Word Arrect Definition Alt. of Arrected
  • English Word Arrect Definition To direct.
  • English Word Arrect Definition To impute.
  • English Word Arrectary Definition An upright beam.
  • English Word Arrected Definition Lifted up; raised; erect.
  • English Word Arrected Definition Attentive, as a person listening.
  • English Word Arrenotokous Definition Producing males from unfertilized eggs, as certain wasps and bees.
  • English Word Arrentation Definition A letting or renting, esp. a license to inclose land in a forest with a low hedge and a ditch, under a yearly rent.
  • English Word Arreption Definition The act of taking away.
  • English Word Arreptitious Definition Snatched away; seized or possessed, as a demoniac; raving; mad; crack-brained.
  • English Word Arrest Definition To stop; to check or hinder the motion or action of; as, to arrest the current of a river; to arrest the senses.
  • English Word Arrest Definition To take, seize, or apprehend by authority of law; as, to arrest one for debt, or for a crime.
  • English Word Arrest Definition To seize on and fix; to hold; to catch; as, to arrest the eyes or attention.
  • English Word Arrest Definition To rest or fasten; to fix; to concentrate.
  • English Word Arrest Definition To tarry; to rest.
  • English Word Arrest Definition The act of stopping, or restraining from further motion, etc.; stoppage; hindrance; restraint; as, an arrest of development.
  • English Word Arrest Definition The taking or apprehending of a person by authority of law; legal restraint; custody. Also, a decree, mandate, or warrant.
  • English Word Arrest Definition Any seizure by power, physical or moral.
  • English Word Arrest Definition A scurfiness of the back part of the hind leg of a horse; -- also named rat-tails.
  • English Word Arrestation Definition Arrest.
  • English Word Arrested Definition of Arrest
  • English Word Arrestee Definition The person in whose hands is the property attached by arrestment.