[Artemi`sium], a promontory N. of Euboea, near which Xerxes lost part of his fleet, 480 B.C.
[Artemus Ward]. See [C. F. Browne].
[Artesian wells], wells made by boring for water where it is lower than its source, so as to obtain a constant supply of it.
[Ar`tevelde, Jacob van], a wealthy brewer of Ghent, chosen chief in a revolt against Count Louis of Flanders, expelled him, made a treaty with Edward III. as lord-superior of Flanders, was massacred in a popular tumult (1300-1345).
[Artevelde, Philip van], son of the preceding, defeated Louis II. and became king; but with the help of France Louis retaliated and defeated the Flemings, and slew him in 1382.
[Artful Dodger], a young thief, an expert in the profession in Dickens' "Oliver Twist."
[Ar`thur], a British prince of wide-spread fame, who is supposed to have lived at the time of the Saxon invasion in the 6th century, whose exploits and those of his court have given birth to the tradition of the Round Table, to the rendering of which Tennyson devoted so much of his genius.
[Arthur, Chester Alan], twenty-first president of the United States, a lawyer by profession, and a prominent member of the Republican party (1830-1886).
[Arthur, Prince, Duke of Brittany], heir to the throne of England by the death of his uncle Richard I.; supplanted by King John.
[Arthur Seat], a lion-shaped hill 822 ft., close to Edinburgh on the E., from the top of which the prospect is unrivalled; "the blue, majestic, everlasting ocean, with the Fife hills swelling gradually into the Grampians behind it on the N.; rough crags and rude precipices at our feet ('where not a hillock rears its head unsung'), with Edinburgh at their base, clustering proudly over her rugged foundations, and covering with a vapoury mantle the jagged, black, venerable masses of stone-work, that stretch far and wide, and show like a city of fairyland"—such the view Carlyle had in a clear atmosphere of 1826, whatever it may be now.