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Ariel

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Ar·i·el  (âr-l)
n.
A satellite of Uranus.
[After Ariel, a sylph that guards the heroine of The Rape of the Lock by Alexander Pope.]
ariel [ˈɛərɪəl]
n
(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Animals) an Arabian gazelle, Gazella arabica (or dama)
[from Arabic aryal]
Ariel [ˈɛərɪəl]
n
(Astronomy & Space / Celestial Objects) the smallest of the four large satellites of Uranus


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Compose yourself, Mamma Macallan; Ariel with make me presentable to a lady's eyes.
Law and the Lady by Collins, Wilkie View in context
"You mean," Villa Kennan challenged, "that these head-hunting cannibals ashore here keep records of pedigrees and maintain kennels; for surely this absurd adventurer of a dog is as proper an Irish terrier as the Ariel is an Oregon-pine-planked schooner.
Jerry of the Islands by London, Jack View in context
Will Ladislaw's smile was delightful, unless you were angry with him beforehand: it was a gush of inward light illuminating the transparent skin as well as the eyes, and playing about every curve and line as if some Ariel were touching them with a new charm, and banishing forever the traces of moodiness.
Middlemarch by Eliot, George View in context
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