[Arctu`rus], star of the first magnitude and the chief in the N. constellation Boötes.
[Ardèche], an affluent of the Rhône, source in the Cévennes; gives name to a department traversed by the Cévennes Mountains.
[Arden], a large forest at one time in England, E. of the Severn.
[Arden, Enoch], hero of a poem by Tennyson, who finds, on his return from the sea, after long absence, his wife, who believed him dead, married happily to another; does not disclose himself, and dies broken-hearted.
[Ardennes], a forest, a tract of rugged woodland on the confines of France and Belgium; also department of France (325), on the borders of Belgium.
[Ar`doch], a place in Perthshire, 7 m. from Crieff, with the remains of a Roman camp, the most complete in Britain.
[Arends, Leopold], a Russian of literary ability, inventor of a system of stenography extensively used on the Continent (1817-1882).
[Areopagitica], a prose work of Milton's, described by Prof. Saintsbury as "a magnificent search for the Dead Truth."
[Areop`agus], the hill of Ares in Athens, which gave name to the celebrated council held there, a tribunal of 31 members, charged with judgment in criminal offences, and whose sentences were uniformly the awards of strictest justice.
[Arequi`pa] (35), a city in Peru, founded by Pizarro in 1536, in a fruitful valley of the Andes, 8000 ft. above the sea, 30 m. inland; is much subject to earthquakes, and was almost destroyed by one in 1868.