[Arpi`no (Arpinium)], an ancient town in Latium, S. of Rome, birthplace of Cicero and Marius.
[Arqua], a village 12 m. SW. of Padua, where Petrarch died and was buried.
[Arrack], a spirituous liquor, especially that distilled from the juice of the cocoa-nut tree and from fermented rice.
[Ar`rah], a town in Bengal, 36 m. from Patna; famous for its defence by a handful of English and Sikhs against thousands during the Mutiny.
[Arran] (4), largest island in the Firth of Clyde, in Buteshire; a mountainous island, highest summit Goatfell, 2866 ft, with a margin of lowland round the coast; nearly all the property of the Duke of Hamilton, whose seat is Brodick Castle.
[Arras] (20), a French town in the dep. of Pas-de-Calais, long celebrated for its tapestry; the birthplace of Damiens and Robespierre.
[Ar`ria], a Roman matron, who, to encourage her husband in meeting death, to which he had been sentenced, thrust a poniard into her own breast, and then handed it to him, saying, "It is not painful," whereupon he followed her example.
[Ar`rian, Flavius], a Bithynian, a friend of Epictetus the Stoic, edited his "Enchiridion"; wrote a "History of Alexander the Great," and "Periplus," an account of voyages round the Euxine and round the Red Sea; b. 100, and died at an advanced age.
[Arrow-headed characters], the same as the [Cuneiform] (q. v.).
[Arru Islands] (15), a group of 80 coralline islands, belonging to Holland, W. of New Guinea; export mother-of-pearl, pearls, tortoise-shell, &c.