lso, a rough country cart in
Southern Russia.

ARROW. A missive weapon of offence, and whether ancient or modern, in
the rudest form among savages or refined by art, is always a slender
stick, armed at one end, and occasionally feathered at the other. The
natives of Tropical Africa feather the metal barb.

ARROW. In fortification, a work placed at the salient angles of the
glacis, communicating with the covert way.--_Broad arrow._ The royal
mark for stores of every kind. (_See_ BROAD ARROW.)

ARSENAL. A repository of the munitions of war. Some combine both
magazines of naval and military stores, and docks for the construction
and repair of ships.

ARSHEEN. A Russian measure of 2 feet 4 in. = 2.333--also Chinese, four
of which make 3 yards English.

ART. A spelling of _airt_ (which see). Also, practice as distinguished
from theory.

ARTEMON. The main-sail of ancient ships.

ARTHUR. A well-known sea game, alluded to by Grose, Smollet, and other
writers.

ARTICLES. The express stipulations to which seamen bind themselves by
signature, on joining a merchant ship.

ARTICLES OF WAR. A code of rules and orders based on the act of
parliament for the regulation and government of Her Majesty's ships,
vessels, and forces by sea: and as they are frequently read to all
hands, no individual can plead ignorance of them. It is now termed the
New Naval Code.--The _articles of war_ for the land forces have a
similar foundation and relation to their service; the act in this case,
however, is passed annually, the army itself having, in law, no more
than one year's permanence unless so periodically renewed by act of
parliament.

ARTIFICER. One who works by hand in wood or metal; generally termed an
_idler on board_, from his not keeping night-watch, and only appearing
on deck duty when the hands are turned up.

ARTIFICIAL EYE. An eye worked in the end of rope, which is neater but
not so strong as a spliced eye.

ARTIFICIAL HORIZON. An artificial means of catching the altitude of a
celestial body when the sea horizon is obscured by fog, darkness, or the
intervention of land; a simple one is still the greatest desideratum of
navigators. Also a trough filled with pure mercury, used on land,
wherein the double altitude of a celestial body is reflected.

ARTIFICIAL LINES. The ingenious contrivances for representing
logarithmic sines and tangents, so useful in navigation, on a scale.

ARTILLERY was formerly synonymous with arch