Definition of arch

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Arch (n.) Usually a curved member made up of separate wedge-shaped solids, with the joints between them disposed in the direction of the radii of the curve; used to support the wall or other weight above an opening. In this sense arches are segmental, round (i. e., semicircular), or pointed..

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Archonship :: Archonship (n.) The office of an archon.
Hierarch :: Hierarch (n.) One who has high and controlling authority in sacred things; the chief of a sacred order; as, princely hierarchs..
Nomarchies :: Nomarchies (pl. ) of Nomarch.
Mongoos :: Mongoos (n.) A species of ichneumon (Herpestes griseus), native of India. Applied also to other allied species, as the African banded mongoose (Crossarchus fasciatus)..
Order :: Order (n.) The disposition of a column and its component parts, and of the entablature resting upon it, in classical architecture; hence (as the column and entablature are the characteristic features of classical architecture) a style or manner of architectural designing..
Drummer :: Drummer (n.) One whose office is to best the drum, as in military exercises and marching..
Curious :: Curious (a.) Careful or anxious to learn; eager for knowledge; given to research or inquiry; habitually inquisitive; prying; -- sometimes with after or of.
Markisesse :: Markisesse (n.) A marchioness.
Find :: Find (n.) Anything found; a discovery of anything valuable; especially, a deposit, discovered by archaeologists, of objects of prehistoric or unknown origin..
Archpriest :: Archpriest (n.) A chief priest; also, a kind of vicar, or a rural dean..
Ethnarch :: Ethnarch (n.) The governor of a province or people.
Chiliarch :: Chiliarch (n.) The commander or chief of a thousand men.
Archeus :: Archeus (n.) 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.
Archelogy :: Archelogy (n.) The science of, or a treatise on, first principles..
Architectonical :: Architectonical (a.) Relating to the systemizing of knowledge.
Ablactation :: Ablactation (n.) The process of grafting now called inarching, or grafting by approach..
Tympan :: Tympan (n.) A frame covered with parchment or cloth, on which the blank sheets are put, in order to be laid on the form to be impressed..
Perciformes :: Perciformes (n. pl.) An extensive tribe or suborder of fishes, including the true perches (Percidae); the pondfishes (Centrarchidae); the sciaenoids (Sciaenidae); the sparoids (Sparidae); the serranoids (Serranidae), and some other related families..
Polyarchist :: Polyarchist (n.) One who advocates polyarchy; -- opposed to monarchist.
Architrave :: Architrave (n.) The lower division of an entablature, or that part which rests immediately on the column, esp. in classical architecture. See Column..
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