Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary -- Volume AB

Very little water or aquosity is found in their belly.
Holland.

Ar (?), conj. Ere; before. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A"ra (?), n. [L.] (Astron.) The Altar; a southern constellation, south of the tail of the Scorpion.

A"ra (?), n. [Native Indian name.] (Zoöl.) A name of the great blue and yellow macaw (Ara ararauna), native of South America.

Ar"ab (?; 277), n. [Prob. ultimately fr. Heb. arabah a desert, the name employed, in the Old Testament, to denote the valley of the Jordan and Dead Sea. Ar. Arab, Heb. arabi, arbi, arbim: cf. F. Arabe, L. Arabs, Gr. ?.] One of a swarthy race occupying Arabia, and numerous in Syria, Northern Africa, etc.

-- Street Arab, a homeless vagabond in the streets of a city, particularly an outcast boy or girl. Tylor.

The ragged outcasts and street Arabs who are shivering in damp doorways.
Lond. Sat. Rev.

A·ra"ba (?), n. [Written also aroba and arba.] [Ar. or Turk. 'arabah: cf. Russ. arba.] A wagon or cart, usually heavy and without springs, and often covered. [Oriental]

The araba of the Turks has its sides of latticework to admit the air

Ar`a·besque" (?), n. [F. arabesque, fr. It. arabesco, fr. Arabo Arab.] A style of ornamentation either painted, inlaid, or carved in low relief. It consists of a pattern in which plants, fruits, foliage, etc., as well as figures of men and animals, real or imaginary, are fantastically interlaced or put together.

It was employed in Roman imperial ornamentation, and appeared, without the animal figures, in Moorish and Arabic decorative art. (See Moresque.) The arabesques of the Renaissance were founded on Greco-Roman work.