Araliacese, Araliads

IVY-WORTS, an order of plants, alliance Umbellales.-DIAG. A 3 or more-celled fruit IMG:content-0262.png:[blocks in formation] probably the root of the whole family of Semitic tongues, was spoken in all the countries named Aramæa. It was divided into two principal dialects, the Western Aramaic or Syriac, and the Eastern Aramaic or Chaldee. After the Babylonian captivity, the pure Hebrew had grad. ually given place to the Aramaic, which was generally spoken in Palestine in the time of Christ. It is the harshest of all the Semitic languages, and has now almost entirely died out, giving place to the Arabic, and Persian, or Persic. Aramay'ona, a valley of Spain in the prov. of Alava, famous for its iron-works. Aramin'go, in Pennsylvania , that part of the city of Philadelphia situated about 42 m. N. by E. of the city hall. It was formerly a district of Philadelphia co. Ara'mo, a town of Chili, 30 m. S. of La Concepcion. A'ran, a valley of Spain, prov. of Lerida, in the Pyrenees, bounded on the N. by the French dep. of HauteGaronne and Arriège, on the S.W. by Aragon, and on the S. and S.E. by Catalonia. It consists chiefly of wood and pastures, with but little arable land. Inhabited principally by herdsmen, woodcutters, and contrabandistos or smugglers. 4,623. Aran'cay, a town of Peru, in the prov. of Truxillo, in S. Lat. 9° 20'. Aran'da de Due'ro, a town and partidos (district) of Spain, in the prov. of Burgos, 90 m. from Madrid; pop . Arane'idæ, n . pl . ( Zool .) The Spiders, a family of annulose animals, ord. Arachnid a . See SPIDERS. Araneiform, a. Formed or shaped as a spider. Ara/neo us, a . Resembling a spider's web, or cobweb. Aranha, two towns in Portugal, one in Estremadura, 12 m. N.E. of Leiria; the other in the prov. of Alentejo, 10 m. S.S.W. of Porto Alegre. Aranjuez', a town of Spain, in the prov. of New Castile, 28 m. S.S.E. of Madrid. This place is principally remarkable as containing a royal palace and fine gardens, belonging to the Spanish sovereigns, built in the reign of Philip II. Aran's as, in Texas , a small river which pa es through the N.E. part of Bee co., and runs S.E. until its entry into the bay of the same name. -A village of Aransas co. Aransas Bay, ARANSASO OF ARANSAZUA, a bay on the coast of Texas, N. of Corpus Christ i bay. Aran'tac, a seaport of Peru, 30 m. S.W. of Are quip a, in S. Lat. 16° 53′. The harbor is deep, but the narrow entrance prevents many, ve els from frequenting it. Ara'ny, JANOS, a distinguished Hungarian poet, B. at Nagy-Szalonta, 1819. His principal poems are: Az elveszett alkotmány (The lost Constitution of the Past); Toldi , a Trilogy; Murány Ostroma (Conquest of Murány); and Katalia (Catherine). D. 1882. Denver, Arapahoe, in Colorado, an E. county; County town Arapahoe, in Oklahoma, the cap. of "G." co. Pop. (1897) abt. 300. Arap'ahoes, a tribe of North American Indians, formerly inhabiting the country E. of the Rocky Mountains, now on reservations in Wyoming and Indian Territory. They were once numerous and warlike, but are now few and inoffensive.