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Arch   /ɑrtʃ/   Listen
noun
Arch  n.  
1.
(Geom.) Any part of a curved line.
2.
(Arch.)
(a)
Usually a curved member made up of separate wedge-shaped solids, with the joints between them disposed in the direction of the radii of the curve; used to support the wall or other weight above an opening. In this sense arches are segmental, round (i. e., semicircular), or pointed.
(b)
A flat arch is a member constructed of stones cut into wedges or other shapes so as to support each other without rising in a curve. Note: Scientifically considered, the arch is a means of spanning an opening by resolving vertical pressure into horizontal or diagonal thrust.
3.
Any place covered by an arch; an archway; as, to pass into the arch of a bridge.
4.
Any curvature in the form of an arch; as, the arch of the aorta. "Colors of the showery arch."
Triumphal arch, a monumental structure resembling an arched gateway, with one or more passages, erected to commemorate a triumph.


Arch  n.  A chief. (Obs.) "My worthy arch and patron comes to-night."


adjective
Arch  adj.  
1.
Chief; eminent; greatest; principal. "The most arch act of piteous massacre."
2.
Cunning or sly; sportively mischievous; roguish; as, an arch look, word, lad. "(He) spoke his request with so arch a leer."


verb
Arch  v. t.  (past & past part. arched; pres. part. arching)  
1.
To cover with an arch or arches.
2.
To form or bend into the shape of an arch. "The horse arched his neck."


Arch  v. i.  To form into an arch; to curve.


prefix
Arch-  pref.  A prefix signifying chief, as in archbuilder, archfiend.


suffix
-arch  suff.  A suffix meaning a ruler, as in monarch (a sole ruler).





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"Arch" Quotes from Famous Books



... covered it far and wide, turbid waves in the eternal night. Then was the glorious Spirit of heaven's guardian 120 borne over the sea with sovereign virtue. For the King of the angels commanded Light, dispenser of life, to come forth over the broad expanse: quickly was the Arch-King's mandate fulfilled, and Holy Light appeared 125 over the waste spaces, as the Creator had ordained it. The Wielder of Victory next sundered light from darkness, shadow from radiance, over the surge of the sea. Then he formed the two ...
— Genesis A - Translated from the Old English • Anonymous
... she dropped down beside Lur and touched their prize. Lur was right, the flesh was warm and she had caught the faint rhythm of shallow breath. Half remembering old tales, she put her hands on the arch of the lower ribs and began to aid that ...
— The Gifts of Asti • Andre Alice Norton
... and wallflower grow Matted and massed together, hillocks heaped On what were chambers; arch crushed, columns strown In fragments; choked up vaults, where the owl peeped, Deeming ...
— Horace • William Tuckwell
... was your girl!" Thus Bo unmasked her battery. And Helen could not imagine how Carmichael would ever resist that and the soft, arch glance ...
— The Man of the Forest • Zane Grey
... watery November sun—shone out in silver upon the great stretch of moorland, and lit it up like a sea of light. Little globes of crystal glistened on the hedgerows, and many-coloured raindrops glowed like jewelled points on the blades of green that lay about his feet. A great arch of sevenfold radiance spanned the valley, based on either side from the twin slopes, and reaching with its crown to the summit of the skies. It was now a passage from Hebrew tradition came to his mind, and he thought of him of whom the poet wrote, 'and as he passed over Penuel, the ...
— Lancashire Idylls (1898) • Marshall Mather


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