Chapter Architect of his own Fortune to Ariel of A by Brewer's Phrase & Fable

Larchey: Dictionaire d'Argot.
Francisque-Michel, however, in his Philologie Comparée , says, "L'ancienne langue Française avait le mot argu, mais dans un sens bien different, que l'on peut établir par les passages suivant ..." He then gives five examples.

Argus-eyed Jealously watchful. According to Grecian fable, Argos had 100 eyes, and Juno set him to watch Io, of whom she was jealous.

Argyle (2 syl.) - of whom Thompson says, in his Autumn (928--30) -

"On thee, Argyle,
Her hope, her stay, her darling, and her boast,
Thy fond, imploring country turns her eye - "

was John, the great duke, who lived only two years after he succeeded to the dukedom. Pope (Ep. Sat. ii. 86, 87) says -

"Argyle the state's whole thunder born to wield,
And shake alike the senate and the field."

Arians The followers of Arius, a presbyter of the church of Alexandria, in the fourth century. He maintained (1) that the Father and Son are distinct beings; (2) that the Son, though divine, is not equal to the Father; (3) that the Son had a state of existence previous to His appearance on earth, but not from eternity; and (4) that the Messiah was not real man, but a divine being in a case of flesh.

Arideus [A-ree-de-us ] in Jerusalem Delivered, herald in the Christian army. The other herald is Pindorus.

Ariel A spirit of the air and guardian of innocence. He was enslaved to the witch Sycorax, who overtasked him; and in punishment for not doing what was beyond his power, shut him up in a pine-rift for twelve years. On the death of Sycorax, Ariel became the slave of Caliban, who tortured him most cruelly. Prospero liberated him from the pine-rift, and the grateful fairy served him for sixteen years, when he was set free. (Shakespeare. Tempest.)

Ariel. The sylph that watched over Belinda. (Pope: Rape of the Lock, i.)

Ariel. One of the angels cast out of heaven. The word means lion of God. (Milton: Paradise Lost, book vi. 371.)