arabata

[Native name.) An American monkey ( Mycetes str a mine us). Ar-a-běsq'ue (que = k), * Ar-a-běsk', s . & adj. [ As substantive: In Dut. Arabesken (pl.); Ger. Arabeske (sing.); Fr. Arabesque (sing.); Port. Arabescos (pl.); Ital. Arabesco, Rabesco (sing.); terms all implying that the style of ornamentation so designated originated with the Arabs, whereas it seems to have sprung up first among the Romans.] A. As substantive: Arch. A style of ornamentation in which are represented men, animals (the latter consisting of mythic as well as actual forms); plants, with leaves, flowers, and fruit; mathematical figures, .; the whole put together in a whimsical way, so that, for instance, the animals not merely rest upon the plants, but grow out of them like blo oms. There are three kinds of Arabesque: 1st (and oldest), that of the Romans, without the animals. They occur in the mural paintings at Pompeii, Herculaneum, and other places. 2nd. That of the Arabs, also without the animals. This is well seen in the Alhambra. 3rd. The Christian Arabesque, with the figures introduced. It appears in illuminated med iæval manuscripts and d elsewhere. ( Glo . of Arch .) B. As adjective (in Fr. Arabesque ): ARABESQUE PANEL. 11. Gen.: Pertaining to Arabia or its inhabitants. A.R.A.-arachis "Though a follower of the Arabian school, the a iduity with which he [A chill in i) cultivated anatomy, has rescued his name from the in gio rio us obscurity in which the Arabesque doctors have in general slumbered."- Ency . Brit ., 7th ed., ii. 756. 2. Spec.: Consisting of, or pertaining to, the kind of ornaments called Arabesques. [See A., as substantive.] "A kind of ornament, which may be called Arabesque was much used in the domestic architecture of this country in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries." -Glo . of Arch , 5th ed. (1850).