Their long array of sapphire and of gold.
Byron.
4. Dress; garments disposed in order upon the person; rich or beautiful apparel. Dryden.
5. (Law) (a) A ranking or setting forth in order, by the proper officer, of a jury as impaneled in a cause. (b) The panel itself. (c) The whole body of jurors summoned to attend the court.
To challenge the array (Law), to except to the whole panel. Cowell. Tomlins. Blount. -- Commission of array (Eng. Hist.), a commission given by the prince to officers in every county, to muster and array the inhabitants, or see them in a condition for war. Blackstone.
Ar*ray", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Arrayed (&?;); p. pr. & vb. n. Arraying.] [OE. araien, arraien, fr. OE. arraier, arreier, arreer, arroier, fr. arrai. See Array, n.] 1. To place or dispose in order, as troops for battle; to marshal.
By torch and trumpet fast arrayed,
Each horseman drew his battle blade.
Campbell.
These doubts will be arrayed before their minds.
Farrar.
2. To deck or dress; to adorn with dress; to cloth to envelop; -- applied esp. to dress of a splendid kind.
Pharaoh . . . arrayed him in vestures of fine linen.
Gen. xli.&?;.
In gelid caves with horrid gloom arrayed.
Trumbull.
3. (Law) To set in order, as a jury, for the trial of a cause; that is, to call them man by man. Blackstone.
To array a panel, to set forth in order the men that are impaneled. Cowell. Tomlins.
Syn. -- To draw up; arrange; dispose; set in order.
Ar*ray"er, n. One who arrays. In some early English statutes, applied to an officer who had care of the soldiers' armor, and who saw them duly accoutered.
Ar*rear" (&?;), adv. [OE. arere, OF. arere, ariere, F. arrière, fr. L. ad + retro backward. See Rear.] To or in the rear; behind; backwards. [Obs.] Spenser.
Ar*rear", n. That which is behind in payment, or which remains unpaid, though due; esp. a remainder, or balance which remains due when some part has been paid; arrearage; -- commonly used in the plural, as, arrears of rent, wages, or taxes. Locke.
For much I dread due payment by the Greeks
Of yesterday's arrear.
Cowper.
I have a large arrear of letters to write.
J. D. Forbes.
In arrear or In arrears, behind; backward; behindhand; in debt.
Ar*rear"age (&?;), n. [F. arrérage, fr. arrière, OF. arere. See Arrear.] That which remains unpaid and overdue, after payment of a part; arrears.
The old arrearages . . . being defrayed.
Howell.
{ Ar*rect" (&?;), Ar*rect"ed, } a. [L. arrectus, p. p. of arrigere to raise, erect; ad + regere to lead straight, to direct.] 1. Lifted up; raised; erect.