The architecture of grasses, plants, and trees.
Tyndall.
The formation of the first earth being a piece of divine architecture.
Burnet.
Military architecture, the art of fortifications. -- Naval architecture, the art of building ships.
||Ar`chi*teu"this (&?;), n. [NL., fr. Gr. pref. &?; + &?;, &?;, a kind of squid.] (Zoöl.) A genus of gigantic cephalopods, allied to the squids, found esp. in the North Atlantic and about New Zealand.
Ar"chi*trave (&?;), n. [F. architrave, fr. It. architrave; pref. archi- + trave beam, L. trabs.] (Arch.) (a) The lower division of an entablature, or that part which rests immediately on the column, esp. in classical architecture. See Column. (b) The group of moldings, or other architectural member, above and on both sides of a door or other opening, especially if square in form.
Ar"chi*traved (&?;), a. Furnished with an architrave. Cowper.
Ar"chi*val (&?;), a. Pertaining to, or contained in, archives or records. Tooke.
Ar"chive (&?;), n.; pl. Archives (&?;). [F. archives, pl., L. archivum, archium, fr. Gr. &?; government house, &?; &?; archives, fr. &?; the first place, government. See Archi-, pref.] 1. pl. The place in which public records or historic documents are kept.
Our words . . . . become records in God's court, and are laid up in his archives as witnesses.
Gov. of Tongue.
2. pl. Public records or documents preserved as evidence of facts; as, the archives of a country or family.
[Rarely used in sing.]
Some rotten archive, rummaged out of some seldom explored press.
Lamb.
Syn. -- Registers; records; chronicles.