Argo Navis

[ARGO.] ar-go-sỹ, tar-go-sie, tar-gu-sě-ạ, *rag-u-sy, s. [Ital. una Ragusea (nave). Ragusa itself appears in sixteenth century English as Aragouse, Aragosa, whence the natural substitution of argusea for ragu sea. (Atheneum, March 1, 1884.)] A large ve el designed for carrying merchandise; a carrack. "Your argosies with portly sail, Do overpeer the petty traffickers." Shakesp .: sp.: Merchant of Venice, i. 1. ar-got ( t silent), s. [Fr.] A term originally applied to the language in use among thieves and bad characters generally in France; now extended to any slang. ar'-gu-a-ble, a . [Eng. argue ; -able .] Which may be argued; which cannot, primâ facie , be set aside as absurd. ( Ed . Rev. ) ( Worcester .) "The neutralization of a certain area of arguable ground is a very clever phrase for which wh Lord Cairns desires theological or at least episcopal thanks." Daily Telegraph , June 11, 1874.