arrectaryt (arektari)

[ to one which is horizontal. The arrectary or beam of his cro . Bp . Hall , Works, II. 278. arrect us , set up erect: see arrect , v.] That which ), n. [NL., arrigere , arrect or (a-rek'tor), arrects; an erector. - Arrect or pili, in an at., the erector of the hair, a small strip of unstriated muscle running from the lower part of the hair-follicle toward the surface of the skin, and by contraction, under the influence of fright or cold, causing the hair to stand straight up or "on end," at the same time so raising the surface just around the orifice as to occasion goose-flesh or horripilation.