Aragonite
or ARRAGONITE (from ARAGON, in Spain, where it was crystals, generally six-sided prisms, though the rectangular octohedron is considered its regular form. It occurs lumnar, stalactitic, and incrusting. Its color is white, gray, yellow, green, or violet; it is transparent or translucent, and brittle. vides it: Var. 1.
Crystallized in simple or compound crystals, or in radiating groups of acicular Crystallized in simple or compound crys- tals, or in radiating groups of acicular Spar; (c) Massive. 2. Scaly massive. crystals; (b) Columnar, including Satin- Spar; (c) Massive. 2. Scaly massive. loidal. 5. Tarnovicite. Mossottite and Oserskite also rank with Aragonite. It occurs in Spain, Austria, Italy, England, America, and elsewhere. occurs in Spain, Austria, Italy, England, group of anhydrous carbonates, comprising aragonite, manganocalcite, withgroup of anhydrous carbonates, com- ARAGONITE GROUP, Dana's second ARAGUAY (ar'a-gay), or ARA- GUAYA, or RIO GRANDE, a large river of Brazil, which rises in about 19° S. lat., near the Parana, flowing to about 6° S. lat., where it joins the Tocantins. The united stream, after a course of about es, falls into the delta of the Amazon in S. lat. 1° 40′. 1,300 miles, lat., where it joins the Tocantins. The united stream, after a course of about range of 700 miles long, stretching from the mountains of the Naga City downward along the E. of Chittagong division, range of 700 miles long, stretching from Burma, and through the Irawadi division, and terminating in Cape Negrais; highest peak, Blue Mountain, 7,100 feet. Bengal, and Arakan division, Lower Burma, and through the Irawadi division, and terminating in Cape Negrais; high- Sea, is the largest lake in the steppes of Asia. It lies wholly within the limits of tincture of them is prescribed in toothache. A. racemosa, the spikenard of America, is also regarded as a medicinal plant.
ARAMÆAN (ar-am-a'an), or ARA- MAIC, a Semitic language nearly allied to the Hebrew and Phoenician, anciently spoken in Syria and Palestine and eastthe official language of this region under ward to the Euphrates and Tigris, being supplanted Hebrew, and was the tongue the Persian domination. In Palestine it of the Jews in the time of Christ. Parts maic, or, as this form of it is often inof Daniel and Ezra are written in Aracorrectly named, Chaldee. An important Aramaic dialect is the Syriac, in which there is an extensive Christian literature.
ARANJUEZ (ar-an-hu'ath), (probably the Latin Ara Jovis), a town of Spain, on the left bank of the Tagus, 30 miles the Latin Ara Jovis), a town of Spain, fully wooded valley. The palace was long a favorite spring resort of the royal family. The famous gardens were laid out by Philip II. At Aranjuez was concluded a treaty between France and Spain in 1772, and it was also the scene of the abdication of Charles IV. in 1808.
Pop. about 15,000. of the abdication of Charles IV. in 1808.
Pop. about 15,000. 1, 1817. He was called to Budapest in 1860 as director of the Kisfaludy So- ARAPAIMA zori" ("The Wreath"); and in 1865 was appointed secretary of the Hungarian Academy, of which he had been a member since 1859. Owing to his feeble health he resigned in 1878. As a national poet he ranks immediately after Petöfi and Vörösmarty, his epical crcations deserving to be acknowledged as ornaments not only of Hungarian but of modern poetry in general. He is master of the ballad and a translator of highest merit, as proven by his versions of Tasso, Goethe, Shakespeare, and, above all, his translation of Aristophanes. He died in Budapest, Oct. 22, 1882.
ARAPAIMA (ar-ap-ā'ma), a genus of tropical fishes, including the largest know fresh water forms. They are found in the rivers of South America, and are sometimes taken in the Rio Negro, 15 feet in length, and 400 pounds in weight. They are shot with arrows or harpooned, and are highly esteemed as food; salted, they are conveyed in large quantities to Para. The genus arapaima belongs to the family osteoglossidæ, allied to the clupeidæ or herring, and is remarkable for the mosaic work of strong bony scales with which the body is covered.
The head is also protected by bony armature. Osteoglossum and heterotis are closely related genera, found in various parts of the tropics.