Aridity

1. n. Fig.: Want of interest of feeling; insensibility; dryness of style or feeling; spiritual drought.
2. n. The state or quality of being arid or without moisture; dryness.

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Arguable

1. a. Capable of being argued; admitting of debate.

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Argued

1. imp. & p. p. of Argue

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Arguing

1. p. pr. & vb. n. of Argue

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Argue

1. v. t. To blame; to accuse; to charge with.
2. v. i. To invent and offer reasons to support or overthrow a proposition, opinion, or measure; to use arguments; to reason.
3. v. i. To contend in argument; to dispute; to reason; — followed by with; as, you may argue with your friend without convincing him.
4. v. t. To debate or discuss; to treat by reasoning; as, the counsel argued the cause before a full court; the cause was well argued.
5. v. t. To prove or evince; too manifest or exhibit by inference, deduction, or reasoning.
6. v. t. To persuade by reasons; as, to argue a man into a different opinion.

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Arguer

1. n. One who argues; a reasoner; a disputant.

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Argufy

1. v. t. & i. To signify.
2. v. t. & i. To argue pertinaciously.

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Argulus

1. n. A genus of copepod Crustacea, parasitic of fishes; a fish louse. See Branchiura.

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Argument

1. v. i. To make an argument; to argue.
2. n. Proof; evidence.
3. n. A reason or reasons offered in proof, to induce belief, or convince the mind; reasoning expressed in words; as, an argument about, concerning, or regarding a proposition, for or in favor of it, or against it.
4. n. A process of reasoning, or a controversy made up of rational proofs; argumentation; discussion; disputation.
5. n. The subject matter of a discourse, writing, or artistic representation; theme or topic; also, an abstract or summary, as of the contents of a book, chapter, poem.
6. n. Matter for question; business in hand.
7. n. The quantity on which another quantity in a table depends; as, the altitude is the argument of the refraction.
8. n. The independent variable upon whose value that of a function depends.

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Argumentable

1. a. Admitting of argument.

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