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[Ital.] Music : L Gen.: A rhythmical song as contradistinguished from a recitative one. IL Specially : 1. Formerly: A measured lyrical piece for one or for several voices. 2. Now : A song intended for one voice supported by instruments. It is introduced into a cantata, oratorio, or opera. [AIR.] Är-i-ad-nē, s. [Lat. Ariadne ; Gr. ' Αριάδνη (Ariadnē).] 1. Cla . Myth .: A daughter of Minos, king of Crete, who, falling in love with These us, then shut up by her father in the labyrinth, gave him a clue by which he threaded his way out. Afterwards she was the wife of Bacchus, who gave her a crown, which ultimately became a constellation called by her name. "Not Ariadne , if you met her Herself, could serve you with a better." Cowper (transl. from Vincent Bourn): The Maze. 2. Astron.: An asteroid, the forty-third found. It was discovered by Pogson, on the 15th of April, 1857. -arian, suffix. [Lat. -arius.] As adjective: Pertaining to: as riparian = pertaining to the bank of a river. As substantive: An agent, one who as librarian, an agent in books, one who looks after books.