arrière-garde (Fr.), rear-guard.

arrière pensée (Fr.), a mental reservation.

ars est celare artem (L.), true art is to conceal art.

ars longa, vita brevis (L.), art is long, life short.

Artium baccalaureus (L.), Bachelor of Arts.

Artium Magister or Magister Artium (L.), Master of Arts.

a salti (It.), by fits and starts.

asbestos gelōs (Gr.), inextinguishable laughter.

Asherah, the sacred tree erected beside Canaanite altars, wrongly translated in the A.V. as 'grove.' See Grove in Dict.

Ashtaroth (pl.), Ashtoreth (pl.), Astarte, the chief Canaanite goddess, female counterpart to Baal, corresponding to the Assyrian Ishtar.