arouser

[Eng. arouse, v.; -er.] One who arouses. a-rou's-ing, pr. par. [AROUSE.] a-rō'w, adv. [Eng. a = on, in, and row. ] In a row; one after the other. "My master and his man are both broke loose, Beaten the maids a - row , and bound the doctor." Shakesp. Comedy of Errors, v. i. "But with a pace more sober and more slow, And twenty, rank in rank, they rode a - row," Dryden. IMG:content-0756.png:[blocks in formation] 309 *ar'-pěnt, * ar'-pěn, s . [Fr. arpent ; Norm. Fr. arpent, arpen; Prov. arpen, aripin; 0. Sp. arapende ; Low Lat., from Domesday Book, arpennus, arpendus ; Cla . Lat. are pennis , ara pennis (said to be of Gaelic origin), equal, according to Columella, to a Roman semijugerum, i.e. , half an acre of ground.] [ARPENT AT OR.] An obsolete French measure of land, varying in amount in different parts of the country. The standard arpent was that of Paris, which contained 100 square perches (about five-sixths of an English acre).