Arnol’do, a gentleman contracted to Zeno’cia, a chaste lady, dishonorably pursued by the governor, count Clodio.—­Beaumont and Fletcher, The Custom of the Country (1647).

AR’NOLPHE (2 syl.), a man of wealth, who has a crotchet about the proper training of girls to make good wives, and tries his scheme on Agnes, whom he adopts from a peasant’s hut, and intends in time to make his wife.  She is brought up, from the age of four years, in a country convent, where difference of sex and the conventions of society are wholly ignored; but when removed from the convent Agnes treats men like school-girls, nods to them familiarly, kisses them, and plays with them.  Being told by her guardian that married women have more freedom than maidens, she asks him to marry her; however, a young man named Horace falls in love with her, and makes her his wife, so Arnolphe, after all, profits nothing by his pains.—­Moliere, L’Ecole des Femmes (1662).

  Dans un petit couvent loin de toute pratique
  Je le fis elever selon ma politique
  C’est-a-dire, ordonnant quels soins on emploieroit
  Pour le rendre idiote autant qu’il se pourroit. 
  Act i.  I.

AR’NOT (Andrew), one of the yeomen of the Balafre [Ludovic Lesly].—­Sir W. Scott, Quentin Durward (time, Edward IV.).

ARON’TEUS (4 syl.), an Asiatic king, who joined the Egyptian armament against the crusaders.—­Tasso, Jerusalem Delivered (1575).

ARPA’SIA, the betrothed of Mone’ses, a Greek, but made by constraint the bride of Baj’azet sultan of Turkey.  Bajazet commanded Moneses to be bow-strung in the presence of Arpasia, to frighten her into subjection, but she died at the sight.—­N.  Eowe, Tamerlane (1702).

AR’ROT, the weasel in the beast-epic of Reynard the Fox (1498).

ARROW-HEAD, Indian warrior in Cooper’s Pathfinder, the husband of Dew-in-June (1840).

ARROW-MAKER, father of Minnehaha, in Longfellow’s Hiawatha (1855).

AR’SACES (3 syl.), the patronymic name of the Persian kings, from Arsaces, their great monarch.  It was generally added to some distinctive name or appellation, as the Roman emperors added the name of Caesar to their own.

  Cujus memoriae hunc honorem Parthi tribuerunt
  ut omnes exinde reges suos Arsacis nomine
  nuncupent.—­Justin, Historiarae Philippicae, xli.

ARSE’TES (3 syl.), the aged eunuch who brought up Clorinda, and attended on her.—­Tasso, Jerusalem Delivered (1575).

ARSINOE, prude in Moliere’s comedy Le Misanthrope.

AR’TAMENES (3 syl.) or LE GRAND CYRUS, a “long-winded romance,” by
Mdlle.  Scuderi (1607-1701).