(definition) by Webster 1913 Tue Dec 21 1999 at 21:54:22

Ar*ride" (#), v. t. [L. arridere; ad + ridere to laugh.]

To please; to gratify.

[Archaic]

B. Jonson.

Above all thy rarities, old Oxenford, what do most arride and solace me are thy repositories of moldering learning. Lamb.

 

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