Aridity, n.
- 1. Dryness, aridness, parchedness, siccity, want of moisture, sterility, barrenness, unfertility.
- 2. Dryness, want of interest, dulness, pointlessness, jejuneness, unsuggestiveness, barrenness, infecundity,
sterility.
- 3. Dulness, insensibility, indifference, torpidity.
Aridness, n. See aridity.
Aright, ad. Rightly, without error or mistake.
Ariose, a. Melodious, of a melodious character, characterized by melody (as distinguished from harmony).
Arise, v. n.
- 1. Ascend, mount, soar, tower, go up.
- 2. Get up, get out of bed, leave one’s couch, start up, stand up, rise, rise from one’s seat.
- 3. Rise, appear, emerge, come in sight, come into view, present itself, show itself, discover itself, make
its appearance, reveal itself, come to light.
- 4. Begin, originate, spring, spring up, be excited, come into action, come into existence or being, enter
upon life.
- 5. Rise, rebel, revolt, rise in sedition, rise in force, violence, or with threatening.
- 6. Rise (from the dead), rise again, leave the tomb, come from the grave.
- 7. Accrue, result, proceed, issue, flow, follow, come, ensue, originate, be derived.
Aristate, a. (Bot.) Awned, bearded.
Aristocracy, n.
- 1. Government of nobles or a privileged order, rule of the higher classes.
- 2. Nobility, noblesse, gentry, peerage, body of nobles, the quality, persons of rank, nobility and gentry.
- 3. (Colloq.) Upper classes, upper ten thousand, upper ten.