[Aruwi`mi], an affluent of the Congo on the right bank below the Stanley Falls.
[Arva`tes, Fratres], a college of twelve priests in ancient Rome whose duty it was to make annual offerings to the Lares for the increase of the fruits of the field.
[Arve], a river that flows through the valley of Chamouni and falls into the Rhône below Geneva.
[Arveyron], an affluent of the Arve from the Mer de Glace.
[Ar`yans], or Indo-Europeans, a race that is presumed to have had its primitive seat in Central Asia, E. of the Caspian Sea and N. of the Hindu-Kush, and to have branched off at different periods north-westward and westward into Europe, and southward into Persia and the valley of the Ganges, from which sprung the Greeks, Latins, Celts, Teutons, Slavs, on the one hand, and the Persians and Hindus on the other, a community of origin that is attested by the comparative study of their respective languages.
[Ar`zew], a seaport in Algeria, 22 m. from Oran, with Roman remains; exports grain and salt.
[Asafoe`tida], a fetid inspissated sap from an Indian umbelliferous tree, used in medicine.
[Asaph], a musician of the temple at Jerusalem.
[Asaph, St.], a town in Flintshire, 20 m. from Chester; seat of a bishopric.
[Asbes`tos], an incombustible mineral of a flax-like fibrous texture, which has been manufactured into cloth, paper, lamp-wick, steam-pipes, gas-stoves, &c.