Definition of arch

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Arch (n.) Any place covered by an arch; an archway; as, to pass into the arch of a bridge..

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Coriaceous :: Coriaceous (a.) Stiff, like leather or parchment..
Quest :: Quest (n.) To search for; to examine.
Archiepiscopacy :: Archiepiscopacy (n.) That form of episcopacy in which the chief power is in the hands of archbishops.
Macher :: Macher (n.) One who marches.
Camber :: Camber (n.) An upward concavity in the under side of a beam, girder, or lintel; also, a slight upward concavity in a straight arch. See Hogback..
Round :: Round (a.) Having a curved outline or form; especially, one like the arc of a circle or an ellipse, or a portion of the surface of a sphere; rotund; bulging; protuberant; not angular or pointed; as, a round arch; round hills..
Trio :: Trio (n.) The secondary, or episodical, movement of a minuet or scherzo, as in a sonata or symphony, or of a march, or of various dance forms; -- not limited to three parts or instruments..
Archetype :: Archetype (n.) The original pattern or model of a work; or the model from which a thing is made or formed.
Ransack :: Ransack (v. t.) To search thoroughly; to search every place or part of; as, to ransack a house..
Cavetto :: Cavetto (n.) A concave molding; -- used chiefly in classical architecture. See Illust. of Column.
Hyostylic :: Hyostylic (a.) Having the mandible suspended by the hyomandibular, or upper part of the hyoid arch, as in fishes, instead of directly articulated with the skull as in mammals; -- said of the skull..
Quest :: Quest (n.) The act of seeking, or looking after anything; attempt to find or obtain; search; pursuit; as, to rove in quest of game, of a lost child, of property, etc..
Duke :: Duke (n.) In England, one of the highest order of nobility after princes and princesses of the royal blood and the four archbishops of England and Ireland..
Monarchal :: Monarchal (a.) Pertaining to a monarch; suiting a monarch; sovoreign; regal; imperial.
Buttress :: Buttress (n.) A projecting mass of masonry, used for resisting the thrust of an arch, or for ornament and symmetry..
March :: March (v. i.) To proceed by walking in a body or in military order; as, the German army marched into France..
Search :: Search (v. t.) To examine; to try; to put to the test.
Portal :: Portal (n.) By analogy with the French portail, used by recent writers for the whole architectural composition which surrounds and includes the doorways and porches of a church..
Paraphysis :: Paraphysis (n.) A minute jointed filament growing among the archegonia and antheridia of mosses, or with the spore cases, etc., of other flowerless plants..
Extrabranchial :: Extrabranchial (a.) Outside of the branchial arches; -- said of the cartilages thus placed in some fishes.
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