arc he, arch (2)

[Fr. arc he Noah's Ark, or any similar structure. Lat. arc a = a chest, a purse.] [ARK.] 1. An ark. "Dat arc he was a feteles good, Set and limed a-gen the flood." Story of Genesis and Exodus (ed. Morris), 561-2. 2. A purse. "Thi tenement complet and con summat. "Thyne siluer and thine arch euacuate." Early Scottish Verse (ed. Lumby), 1. 272. *arc he-wold, s. An ark-board. "Quan he dede him in the arc he-wold." Story of Gen, and Exod . (ed. Morris), 576, ar-che-al, a. [ARCHEUS.] Pertaining to, or caused by, the "archeus." arçhed, pa . par . & a. [ARCH, v.] As participial adjective : 1. Covered with an arch. "As she paused at the arched door." Scott: The Lay of the Last Minstrel 1.20. 2. Curved in the form of an arch. "... the swan with arched neck." Milton: P. L., bk. vii. IMG:content-0711.png:[blocks in formation] brain; κεφαλή (kephale) - the head.] A term proposed by Profe or Owen for his first subcla of Mammal i a, He included under it one order, Bimana, and a single genus, Homo, or Man. The characters he a igned to the sub cla were the overlapping of the olfactory nerves and cerebellum by the cerebral hemispheres, so that the latter constitute a third lobe; the presence of a posterior horn to the lateral ventricle, and also that of the hippocampus minor. ( Owen : Cla if . of Mammolio .) arch-en-çe-phăl-ic, a. [Mod. Lat. arch encephala); Eng. suff. ic.) Pertaining to the Arch encephala (q.v.).