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ARVALS. ARVCLS or ARTHELS (0. None Arfr, inheritance, and ol, A.S. Ale, a banquet), primarily the funeral dinner, and later, especially in the north of England, a thin, light, iweet cake, spiced with cinnamon and nutmeg, served to the poor at Mich feasts. The ...

ARAL, a lake or inland sea in the west of Asia, situated between lat. 43° 30' and 46° 51' N., and long. 58° 13' and 61° 56' E. It was known to the ancient Arab and Persian geographers as the Sea of Khwarizm or Kharezm, from the neighbouring district of the Cho

ARNAL, &TIENNB (1794-1872), French actor, was born at Meulan, Seine-et-Oise, on the ist of February 1704. After serving in the army, and working in a button factory, he took to the stage. His first appearance (1815) was in tragedy, and for some time he was uns

VALLS, a town of north-eastern Spain, in the province of Tarragona; n m. N. of Tarragona, on the Picamoixons-Roda railway. Pop. (1900) 12,625. Vails is an old town, and its walls and towers still remain. Wool and cotton spinning and weaving, dyeing, distilling

... irum A. (1875); Bergk, Das Lied der Arralbruder (1856) ; Bri-al, " Le Chant des Arvals in Mem. de la Soc. de Linguislunte (1881); Edon, Noweiie Etude sur It Ckant Lemural (1884); Corpus Inscriptionum Lalinarum, vi. 2023-2119; Henzcn, Acta Fratntm Arvalium (187 ...