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Arch
'ARCH, n. [See Arc.]
1. A segment or part of a circle. A concave or hollow structure of stone or brick, supported by its own curve. It may be constructed of wood, and supported by the mechanism of the work. This species of structure is much used in bridges.
A vault is properly a board arch.
2. The space between two piers of a bridge, when arched; or any place covered with an arch.
3. Any curvature, in form of an arch.
4. The vault of heaven, or sky.
Triumphal arches are magnificent structures at the entrance of cities, erected to adorn a triumph and perpetuate the memory of the event.
'ARCH, v.t. To cover with an arch; to form with a curve; as to arch a gate.
'ARCH, v.i. To make an arch or arches; as, to arch beneath the sand.
'ARCH, a. [L. arcus, a bow; Eng. rogue.]
Cunning; sly; shrewd; waggish; mischievous for sport; mirthful; as we say in popular language, roguish; as an arch lad.
'ARCH, a. Used also in composition. [Gr. chief.]
Chief; of the first class; principal; as, an arch deed.
Shakespeare uses this word as a noun; "My worthy arch and patrons;" but the use is not authorized.
arch appears in definitions for these words:
Abacus Abaft Above-mentioned Acanthus Acme Acroter Adz Alderman Almucantar Altitude Amplitude Anchor Ancone Angle Annulet Anta Antic Apophthegm Apsis Aqueduct Arc Arcade Arcboutant Arch Archangelic Archarchitect Archbishopric Archbuilder Archchancellor Archdeaconry Archdeaconship Archducal Archduchy Archduke Archdukedom Arched Archer Archeress Archery Arches-court Archetype Archidiaconal Archiepiscopal Archil Archilochian Arching Architect Architectonics Architectress Architectural Architecture Architrave Archival Archivault Archives Archivist Archlike Archon Archonship Archontics Archprimate Archtreasurership Archwise Areopagus Argument Artist Arundelian Ascension Assurgent Astragal Attic Audience Ax Axis Azerit Baguet Balass Balda-chin Balloon Band Bandelet Barge-couples Barricade Base Basement Baston Bead Beam Bearer Bearing Bedmate Belvidere Benefice Berengarianism Bevel Bimbow Binding Bishop Bivalvular Bold Boldness Boultin Bow Bower Bowman Bowyer Brace Branch Brest Brickkiln Brow Builder Butment Buttress Butts Caliber Calogeri Calote Calotte Camber Cambering Camerated Cameration Canopy Cantaliver Caracol Carry Caryatides Cathetus Cavazion Cavetto Centaur Chapless Chaptrel Chimney Chord Cincture Circular Circumvolution Civil Cloister Clout Coffer Coin Collate Colonnade Column Commissure Compartition Compassing Complement Composite Comprovincial Concamerate Concamerated Concameration Concave Confirmation Conge Consistorial Console Convocation Cope Copy Corbel Corinthian Cornice Cornucopia Corona Corps Correctness Corridor Counter Course Cove Coving Crane-fly Cross-bearer Cross-bow Crowning Culvert Cupola Cyma Cymatium Deanery Declination Decoration Decorum Deep-vaulted Deflected Degrade Dentil Depression Descension Design Dignitary Diminution Diocese Distribution Dome Doric Double-quarrel Ebony-tree Echinus Echo Electoral Elegance Emboss Embow Embrasure Enemy Entablature Enthrone Entireness Epigram Epistyle Eurythmy Eustyle Extraprovincial Eyebrow Faculty Fair Fascia Festoon Fillet Firmament Fletcher Flyer Foliage Forefinger Fornicate Frame Freeze Fret Frieze Frontal Frontispiece Furnace Gain Gallery Gill Girder Glyph Gola Gore Gorge Gothic Grace Griffon Groin Groundly Hall Hances Heave Heaven Helix High-arched High-embowed Hit House-wright Hypogeum Imbow Imbowed Imbowing Imbowment Impost Improvement Inarch Incameration Induct Insulate Intelligent Intercept Intercolumniation Interdict Ionic Irony Jamb Key Keystone Kind Lacmus Lacunar Ladanum Lantern Lapse Leeringly Liberal List Listel Lord Luthern Mantle Mask Member Metope Metropolitan Metropolitic Minaret Minute Miter Modillion Module Molder Molding Mole Monument Muffle Mutule Nature Newel Occupy Octostyle Office Official Ogee Ogive Option Orchil Order Ordinary Orlet Ornament Orthography Oven Overarch Ovolo Pageant Palate Pall Parial Patriarch Pattern Pavilion Pawky Peculiar Pedestal Pediment Pentastyle Perch Perfect Piazza Pier Pigeon-holes Pillage Pillar Platband Plate Platform Plinth Pontificate Porch Portal Portgrave Practicability Pragmatic Prelate Prerogative-court Prestation-money Prick Priest Primacy Primate Primateship Procuration Profile Profuse Prostyle Prototype Province Provincial Purlin Pycnostyle Quadrel Quarter Quoin Rainbow Realize Reclinate Relievo Reverberate Reverend Ribin Roguery Roguishness Roll Roof Roofed Round Rudenture Sagittarius Saloon Saracenic Scanty Sciagraphy Scotia Scruple Sector See Segment Shaft Shelving Ship Ship-building Shoot Shooter Shrewd Shrewdly Shrewdness Sine Sinuosity Sky Smile Socle Soffit Something Spandrel Spirituality Spring Springer Springing Staircase Stereotomy Stone Storied Substantial Subtend Subtense Superciliary Support Swan Symmetry Synagris Synodal Systyle Table Talon Talus Tambor Term Testudinated Tetrastyle Third Thunder Tore Transom Tringle Triumphal Trochil Trophied Trophy Trunk Tunnel Tympan Unbowed Union Up Upright Vase Vault Vaultage Vaulted Vaulting Vaulty Visitation Visitorial Volute Water-table Well-hole Widen Wing Zoophorus Zygomatic
Abacus Abaft Above-mentioned Acanthus Acme Acroter Adz Alderman Almucantar Altitude Amplitude Anchor Ancone Angle Annulet Anta Antic Apophthegm Apsis Aqueduct Arc Arcade Arcboutant Arch Archangelic Archarchitect Archbishopric Archbuilder Archchancellor Archdeaconry Archdeaconship Archducal Archduchy Archduke Archdukedom Arched Archer Archeress Archery Arches-court Archetype Archidiaconal Archiepiscopal Archil Archilochian Arching Architect Architectonics Architectress Architectural Architecture Architrave Archival Archivault Archives Archivist Archlike Archon Archonship Archontics Archprimate Archtreasurership Archwise Areopagus Argument Artist Arundelian Ascension Assurgent Astragal Attic Audience Ax Axis Azerit Baguet Balass Balda-chin Balloon Band Bandelet Barge-couples Barricade Base Basement Baston Bead Beam Bearer Bearing Bedmate Belvidere Benefice Berengarianism Bevel Bimbow Binding Bishop Bivalvular Bold Boldness Boultin Bow Bower Bowman Bowyer Brace Branch Brest Brickkiln Brow Builder Butment Buttress Butts Caliber Calogeri Calote Calotte Camber Cambering Camerated Cameration Canopy Cantaliver Caracol Carry Caryatides Cathetus Cavazion Cavetto Centaur Chapless Chaptrel Chimney Chord Cincture Circular Circumvolution Civil Cloister Clout Coffer Coin Collate Colonnade Column Commissure Compartition Compassing Complement Composite Comprovincial Concamerate Concamerated Concameration Concave Confirmation Conge Consistorial Console Convocation Cope Copy Corbel Corinthian Cornice Cornucopia Corona Corps Correctness Corridor Counter Course Cove Coving Crane-fly Cross-bearer Cross-bow Crowning Culvert Cupola Cyma Cymatium Deanery Declination Decoration Decorum Deep-vaulted Deflected Degrade Dentil Depression Descension Design Dignitary Diminution Diocese Distribution Dome Doric Double-quarrel Ebony-tree Echinus Echo Electoral Elegance Emboss Embow Embrasure Enemy Entablature Enthrone Entireness Epigram Epistyle Eurythmy Eustyle Extraprovincial Eyebrow Faculty Fair Fascia Festoon Fillet Firmament Fletcher Flyer Foliage Forefinger Fornicate Frame Freeze Fret Frieze Frontal Frontispiece Furnace Gain Gallery Gill Girder Glyph Gola Gore Gorge Gothic Grace Griffon Groin Groundly Hall Hances Heave Heaven Helix High-arched High-embowed Hit House-wright Hypogeum Imbow Imbowed Imbowing Imbowment Impost Improvement Inarch Incameration Induct Insulate Intelligent Intercept Intercolumniation Interdict Ionic Irony Jamb Key Keystone Kind Lacmus Lacunar Ladanum Lantern Lapse Leeringly Liberal List Listel Lord Luthern Mantle Mask Member Metope Metropolitan Metropolitic Minaret Minute Miter Modillion Module Molder Molding Mole Monument Muffle Mutule Nature Newel Occupy Octostyle Office Official Ogee Ogive Option Orchil Order Ordinary Orlet Ornament Orthography Oven Overarch Ovolo Pageant Palate Pall Parial Patriarch Pattern Pavilion Pawky Peculiar Pedestal Pediment Pentastyle Perch Perfect Piazza Pier Pigeon-holes Pillage Pillar Platband Plate Platform Plinth Pontificate Porch Portal Portgrave Practicability Pragmatic Prelate Prerogative-court Prestation-money Prick Priest Primacy Primate Primateship Procuration Profile Profuse Prostyle Prototype Province Provincial Purlin Pycnostyle Quadrel Quarter Quoin Rainbow Realize Reclinate Relievo Reverberate Reverend Ribin Roguery Roguishness Roll Roof Roofed Round Rudenture Sagittarius Saloon Saracenic Scanty Sciagraphy Scotia Scruple Sector See Segment Shaft Shelving Ship Ship-building Shoot Shooter Shrewd Shrewdly Shrewdness Sine Sinuosity Sky Smile Socle Soffit Something Spandrel Spirituality Spring Springer Springing Staircase Stereotomy Stone Storied Substantial Subtend Subtense Superciliary Support Swan Symmetry Synagris Synodal Systyle Table Talon Talus Tambor Term Testudinated Tetrastyle Third Thunder Tore Transom Tringle Triumphal Trochil Trophied Trophy Trunk Tunnel Tympan Unbowed Union Up Upright Vase Vault Vaultage Vaulted Vaulting Vaulty Visitation Visitorial Volute Water-table Well-hole Widen Wing Zoophorus Zygomatic
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