Vocabulary : Argillous to Argonauta

Argillous : Argillaceous; clayey.
Argive : Of or performance to Argos, the capital of Argolis in Greece. ;; A native of Argos. Often used as a generic term, equivalent to Grecian or Greek.
Argo : The name of the ship which carried Jason and his fifty-four companions to Colchis, in quest of the Golden Fleece. ;; A large constellation in the southern hemisphere, called also Argo Navis. In modern astronomy it is replaced by its three divisions, Carina, Puppis, and Vela.
Argoan : Pertaining to the ship Argo.
Argoile : Potter's clay.

Argol : Crude tartar; an acidulous salt from which cream of tartar is prepared. It exists in the juice of grapes, and is deposited from wines on the sides of the casks.
Argolic : Pertaining to Argolis, a district in the Peloponnesus.
Argon : A substance regarded as an element, contained in the atmosphere and remarkable for its chemical inertness. ;; A colorless, odorless gas occurring in the air (of which it constitutes 0.93 per cent by volume), in volcanic gases, etc.; -- so named on account of its inertness by Rayleigh and Ramsay, who prepared and examined it in 1894-95. Symbol, A; at. wt., 39.9. Argon is condensible to a colorless liquid boiling at -186.1 C. and to a solid melting at -189.6 C. It has a characteristic spectrum. No compounds of it are known, but there is physical evidence that its molecule is monatomic. Weight of one liter at 0 C. and 760 mm., 1.7828 g.
Argonaut : Any one of the legendary Greek heroes who sailed with Jason, in the Argo, in quest of the Golden Fleece. ;; A cephalopod of the genus Argonauta. ;; One of those who went to California in search of gold shortly after it was discovered there in 1848.
Argonauta : A genus of Cephalopoda. The shell is called paper nautilus or paper sailor.

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